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Cairo - A tense calm fell over Egypt Thursday morning after two days of clashes between anti-government demonstrators and police left at least six people dead, hundreds injured and more that 800 arrested.Armoured vehicles and hundreds of riot police were out in force across central Cairo where they took up positions since the nationwide protest erupted on Tuesday.

SANAA, YEMEN - Yemeni protesters inspired by recent events in Tunisia rallied in the streets of the capital Sanaa on Thursday (Jan.27) to call for the departure of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has been in power since 1978.President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen - According to FRANCE24 TV, citing newswires such as AFP, thousands of Yemenis demonstrated in the capital calling on President Ali Abdullah Saleh to depart after being in power since 1978.

“Egypt’s Muslims and Christians will go out to fight against corruption, unemployment and oppression and absence of freedom,” the page said, adding more than 70,000 had signed up online.In Suez, which has been ground zero for some of the most violent demonstrations, police fired tear gas at protesters who hurled stones and petrol bombs into the early hours of Friday. Fires burned in the street, filling the air with smoke.The city fire station was ablaze. Waves of protesters charged towards a police station deep into the night. Demonstrators dragged away their wounded comrades into alleys.

LIVE Updates From Egypt Protests

Main factors : The main reason behind the food price increases is on the supply side which cannot be altered in a short term. The main culprits behind the shortage: climate change (resulting in drought and unseasonal rains), rising temperature, use of food crop to produce fuel, and conversion of farmland into industrial and urban use.Some point to low interest rates in the U.S., Japan and Europe, as investors use cheap financing to invest in globally traded commodities such as rice, sugar, cotton and oil, driving the prices higher.

The U.S. administration is helplessly watching the situation as dictators, which it has backed for decades, are overthrown or on the verge.

But as crowds filled downtown Cairo's Tahrir Square - waving Egyptian and Tunisian flags and adopting the same protest chants that rang out in the streets of Tunis - security personnel changed tactics and the protest turned violent.

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