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Curfew brings eerie silence to bustling Cairo Aug 19th 2013, 01:34 CAIRO – At sundown in Cairo, a dusk-to-dawn curfew begins, and an eerie silence replaces the usual cacophony of car horns and music blaring from sidewalk cafes and Nile party boats.   A blanket of quiet descends, silencing a city that never sleeps, with residents forced to stay at home.   The curfew was declared on Wednesday, as hundreds were killed after police moved to clear two protest camps set up by loyalists of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi.   It applies to 14 of Egypt's provinces, but perhaps nowhere are the effects as pronounced as in Cairo.   Main roads usually choked with rows of cars that far outnumber the lanes allotted ... Keep on reading: Curfew brings eerie silence to bustling Cairo

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