{{The European Union\u2019s foreign policy chief was scheduled to hold crisis talks in Cairo on Monday after the weekend killing of at least 72 supporters of Egypt\u2019s deposed Islamist president plunged the pivotal Arab country deeper into turmoil.}}<\/p>\n
Underscoring the risk of more bloodshed, several thousand supporters of ousted President Mohamed Mursi\u2019s Muslim Brotherhood threatened to march on the military\u2019s intelligence headquarters in defiance of a warning from the army to stay away.<\/p>\n
They turned back early Monday, having left the site of a Brotherhood vigil in northern Cairo chanting, \u201cOur blood and souls we sacrifice for Mursi.\u201d<\/p>\n
The dawn killings on Saturday, following a day of rival mass rallies, deepened the turmoil plaguing the country since the army shunted Egypt\u2019s first freely elected president from power on July 3.<\/p>\n
The West is increasingly concerned about the risk of broader conflict in the Arab world\u2019s most populous country, a bridge between the Middle East and Africa and recipient of more than $1 billion in military aid from the United States.<\/p>\n
Catherine Ashton, the EU\u2019s foreign policy chief, was scheduled to meet General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the head of the Egyptian armed forces who led the overthrow of Mursi, the country\u2019s interim president, Adli Mansour, and officials of the Freedom and Justice Party, the Brotherhood\u2019s political wing.<\/p>\n
Ashton, in a statement, said she would press for a \u201cfully inclusive transition process, taking in all political groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thousands of Brotherhood supporters have been staging a weeks-long vigil outside the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque in northern Cairo to demand Mursi\u2019s reinstatement, defying threats by Egypt\u2019s army-installed authorities to disperse them.<\/p>\n
France24<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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