Kerry dangles IMF loan in Egypt
$4.8 billion offer hinges on economic changes, political stability
Posted: March 3, 2013 at 3:49 a.m.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr, center, enters a news conference with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to speak to the media at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Cairo, Egypt on Saturday, March 2, 2013. Cairo is the sixth leg of Kerry's first official overseas trip and begins the Middle East portion of his nine-day journey. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)
John Kerry made his first trip to an Arab capital as U.S. secretary of state Saturday, hoping to prod Egyptian politicians to commit themselves to a series of economic changes.
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