North Africa Sees Wave of Fiery Copycat Suicides

A restaurant owner screaming anti-government slogans set himself on fire outside the Egyptian parliament in Cairo today, in the latest of several attempted self-immolations mimicking the one that set off Tunisia’s uprising last month. But security officials, with the help of passing motorists, doused the blaze with fire-extinguishers, thwarting the…

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North Africa Sees Wave of Fiery Copycat Suicides

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