World news summary at 1530 GMT, Jan. 29
CAIRO — At least 51 people have been killed and 1,100 others injured during the past four days in violent, massive protests demanding the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, the Health Ministry said Saturday.
The Cabinet resigned in the midst of rampant looting across the sprawling capital city dotted by dozens of military armored personnel carriers and tanks as well as soldiers on foot deployed around a number of key government buildings.
The pyramids on the outskirts of Cairo — Egypt’s premiere tourist site — were closed by the military to tourists.
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MOSCOW — The suicide bomber who killed 35 people and wounded 180 at Moscow’s largest airport was a 20-year-old man from Russia’s Caucasus region, authorities said Saturday.
Vladimir Markin, the head of Russian Investigative Committee, didn’t identify the bomber or reveal the republic he came from but said more details would be released later.
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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan — Four security guards were killed Saturday as their vehicle run over a mine in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province, deputy to provincial police chief said.
“Four security guards were killed when their car hit a roadside bomb in Nawa district west of provincial capital Lashkar Gah today at around 11 a.m. local time (0630 GMT),” Kamaluddin Shirzai told Xinhua.
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DAVOS, Switzerland — Trade ministers representing major members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreed on Saturday to finish the long-stalled Doha Round of global trade talks by this year.
“There was a sense that we are in the end game and that if Doha is done, it needs to be done this year,” Swiss Economy Minister Johann N. Schneider-Ammann said after hosting an informal meeting with his counterparts from 23 major WTO members as well as WTO Director General Pascal Lamy.
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