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CAIRO -The death toll climbed to 37 in Saturday's riots in the northern city of Port Said after an Egyptian court handed down 21 death sentences in connection with last year's deadly soccer melee.

At least 300 have been injured, local media reported, in ongoing clashes between security forces and protesters who are angered by the verdicts related to a February brawl in which 74 soccer fans were killed.

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