Obama Says U.S. Canceling Joint Military Exercise With Egypt
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President Barack Obama canceled a scheduled military exercise with Egypt and directed his staff to assess whether further steps are warranted in response to assaults on protesters by Egyptian security forces that killed more than 500 people.
The military-backed government of Egypt has taken a “dangerous path” with the violent suppression of opposition, Obama said from his family’s vacation rental home in Chilmark, Massachusetts, on Martha’s Vineyard.