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CAIRO - Egyptian police arrested two leaders of an Islamist party in a crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood and its allies, while the European Union's foreign policy chief was to meet with officials in Cairo on Monday to try and end the political clash.

Catherine Ashton's visit to the Egyptian capital is her second this month. More than 260 people have been killed since the July 3 coup that deposed Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

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