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Security forces have responded to the protesters in Iraq using water cannon, tear gas, live rounds and rubber bullets. Scores of protesters have been killed and thousands wounded.

We need to leave the icy cold waters of the North Atlantic, and go thousands of miles back to the dry heat of the Nile Valley in Egypt.

For millions of people, particularly in the United States of America, boarding a jet plane for a quick journey to a city many hundreds or even thousands of miles away, is very much a routine act.