Thousands of people gathered outside the building in the Egyptian capital, chanting and starting fires.

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An army helicopter whisked the pair to the Egyptian capital eight hours after the landing.

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Despite the positive outlook, the Egyptian capital of Cairo isn't a placid city two years after the revolution (arguably it never was).

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The body arrived in the Egyptian capital later in the day amid pomp and circumstance, with a military band and a red carpet.

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Visitors to the Egyptian capital should avoid crowds and demonstrations, which may turn ugly, according to a warning updated yesterday by the British Foreign Office.

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Thursday's speech came nearly two years after Obama delivered an address in Cairo, the Egyptian capital, that called for "a new beginning" between the United States and the Muslim world.

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The Cairo-based side meet hosts Etoile du Sahel in Sousse, knowing that a draw or win would set them up nicely for the return leg in the Egyptian capital on 9 November.

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In December, when the Egyptian capital Cairo was engulfed by violent tensions between Islamists and secular forces, many Tunisians we spoke to bristled at suggestions that the crisis in Tunisia was of similar proportions.

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An interior ministry source in Cairo told the BBC that Mr Gaddaf al-Dam handed himself in to the security forces after 10 vehicles surrounded his house in the Zamalek neighbourhood of the Egyptian capital.

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One who shares that feeling is Mona Abdel Fattah Younes, an Egyptian e-learning specialist working in Doha, the capital city of Qatar.

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