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Updated: U.S. and UK issue strongest travel warnings for Egypt since revolution

Rafat Ali

Photo Credit: A photograph of U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Anne Patterson is burned outside the Ministry of Defense in Cairo, Egypt, on Friday, June 28, 2013. McClatchy Tribune Services / Keith Lane

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Don't expect any good news on Egypt tourism until well into 2014, if that.

Updated below: In a sign of the rapidly worsening situation in Cairo and Alexandria and larger unrest in Egypt, the U.S. State Dept has issued its strongest travel warning yet for the country since the end of the Mubarak regime. This follows a U.S. citizen who got killed today in Alexandria, though the circumstances are still unclear. The warning says in clearest terms that U.S. citizens should defer all non-essential travel to the country. It is also pulling out some of its non-emergency employees and families from embassies in the country as well. This will further push back the struggl

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