EU officials to meet next Monday on Egypt's crisis
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Top officials of 28 European Union members will hold a meeting next Monday to discuss the situation in Egypt, the EU said on Friday.
At least 500 people have been killed in clashes between security forces and Muslim Brotherhood supporters in Cairo and elsewhere, according to official figures.
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| A woman cries beside a dead body at a mosque where lines of bodies wrapped in shrouds were laid out in Cairo, Egypt, Aug. 15, 2013. Hundreds of dead bodies were placed in a mosque some 2 kilometres northeast of Al-Adaweya Mosque. At least 525 people were killed and 3,717 others injured across Egypt in clashes between supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi and the security troops, after the latter dispersed Wednesday two major pro-Morsi sit-ins in Cairo and Giza, a Health Ministry official said Thursday. [Li Muzi/Xinhua] |
European leaders have called for restraint and a return to meaningful dialogues to defuse the political stand-off, which began after Egypt's first elected President Mohamed Morsi was ousted in July.
European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has said she was monitoring the situation with great disquiet.
In November, the European Union pledged nearly 5 billin euros in loans and grants for 2012-13, plus potential loans through the European Investment Bank of up to 1 billion euros a year.
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