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Death toll in Egypt's protests tops 100: sources
Protesters carry the body of a man killed during an attempt to storm the interior ministry in Cairo January 29, 2011.
Credit: Reuters/Yannis Behrakis
CAIRO |
CAIRO (Reuters) - More than 100 people have been killed during anti-government protests that have swept Egypt, according to a Reuters tally of reports from medical sources, hospitals and witnesses.
There was no official figure, and the real figure may be very different, given the confusion on the streets.
On Saturday in Beni Suef, south of Cairo, police shot dead 17 people trying to attack two police stations and eight people were killed during protests. Eight others were killed in clashes when prisoners tried to escape from Abu Zaabal prison in Cairo.
Some 68 deaths were reported killed in Cairo, Suez and Alexandria during Friday's protests.
Before then, security sources had said at least six people, including a police officer, had been killed since the protests started on Tuesday.
On Saturday, medical sources told Reuters around 2,000 people had been wounded throughout the country, however with more protests erupting, that number was almost certain to rise.
The sources were unable to specify whether they were police or protesters.
(Writing by Alison Williams; editing by Jon Boyle)
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Two factors have primarily contributed to higher prices:
Bad weather in producing countries has reduced supply below demand levels, pushing up prices.
Non-food use of grains such as soybeans, corn and wheat for ethanol production has reduced their availability in the food chain. Federal law requires more than 30 percent U.S. corn production must be used for ethanol.
Egypt is suffering from the high cost of food and is not only fed up, but not being fed.
Well, eff that. I know this is going to be a painful process but we need a global redo.
Totalitarian dictators can rot and they should not be tolerated anymore.
In the U.S. we have no financial peace. The government workers just take and take and it is their demands and pensions and incompetence that have destroyed our economy and caused so much pain. They assume we are stupid and that they can repeat lies enough that they become truth. 92% approve of the direction the economy is going, according to CNN.
If you believe that you are a government worker and have no friends in the private sector.
We are lost and destroyed here in the private sector. Things are 10 times worse than the news suggests. If this madness is not remedied then so be it…let the sow what they reap.
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