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Five people were killed in the Egyptian canal city of Suez on Friday, as protesters clashed with police and mas stanley cup s rallies shook Egypt on the second anniversary of the revolt that ousted Hosni Mubarak and brought Islamists to power. HT Image Doctors at the Suez Hospital told AFP five people were shot in the chest and stomach with live bullets stanley cup . It was not immediately clear whether the dead were civilians or police. The health ministry said 379 people were injured in clashes in nine provinces. The unrest came on the seco stanley cup nd anniversary of a revolution that brought to power Islamist President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, and a day after clashes between protesters and police. After the seismic political changes of 2011, the Arab world s most populous nation is struggling to find a balance between a leadership that boasts the legitimacy of the ballot box and opponents who accuse it of betraying the goals of the revolution. Egypt is also in the throes of an economic crisis as foreign investment and tourism revenues dwindle, the Egyptian pound stands at its lowest level against the dollar and a budget deficit shows no sign of recovery. Fierce clashes broke out between protesters and police in the canal city of Suez, while in the neighbouring province of Ismailiya, protesters stormed the governorate headquarters, entering the building, setting fire to a room used by security services and looting furniture and equipment, an AFP reporter said. Demonstrators had ea Lqgy Kentucky candidate asked to drop out for depicting Obamas as monkeys
Pakistan is keen on a serious and substantive engagement with France in civil nuclear cooperation, President Asif Ali Zardari said on Tuesday. HT Image Zardari, currently on an official visit to France, made the remarks during a meeting with his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy stanley cup , an official statement said. Zardari also called for the early establishment of a framework for a strategic dialogue between the two sides. Pakistan has stepped up efforts to gain access to civil nuclear technology since its rival India concluded a stanley cup landmark deal with the US a few years ago. It has urged the world community to adopt a non-discriminatory approach in civil nuclear cooperation. Zardari is on his second visit to France in 14 months and had raised the issue of civil nuclear cooperation during his last visit too. During his talks with Sarkozy, Zardari sought the establishment of a ministerial-level Joint Economic Commissio adidas og n, aggressive support for preferential access to EU markets and parliamentary exchanges to deepen political understanding between the two countries. The President also called for massive international assistance to help Pakistan cope with the situation arising out of floods that had washed away hundreds of villages and killed hundreds of people in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. Presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar quoted Zardari as saying that Pakistan attached great importance to ongoing defence cooperation with France, including the upgrade of Agosta |
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