EU Suspends Arms Sales To Egypt Over Crackdown -- BBC
EU member states have agreed to suspend export licences for any equipment that could be used for repression in Egypt, but humanitarian aid will continue.
The decision was announced by EU foreign policy chief Baroness Ashton after emergency talks in Brussels.
She said EU governments "feel very strongly that they want to continue to support vulnerable people in Egypt".
The foreign ministers met after a week in which more than 900 people have died in Egypt's political violence.
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