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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Photo: Bread Prices Stretch Egyptians -- And Their Government


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A child carries a tray of bread in Cairo on February 6, 2008.

Recent increases in the cost of wheat have battered Egypt—the world's largest consumer of bread per capita—with riots and violence over access to cheap, subsidized bread.

Photograph by Nasser Nuri (Egypt)/Reuters