In Egypt, streets fill with curfew defiers
Latest wave of violence leaves 60 dead
Posted: January 29, 2013 at 5:14 a.m.
Egyptian protesters clash with riot police Monday near Tahrir Square in Cairo. At least 56 people have died in the recent wave of violence.
Protesters battled police for hours in Cairo on Monday and thousands marched through Egypt’s three Suez Canal cities in direct defiance of a nighttime curfew, despite efforts by the Islamist president to contain the crisis by imposing a state of emergency in three provinces.
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