Egypt's prime minister on Tuesday rushed to contain an explosive situation in a northern industrial city rocked by two days of deadly riots over high prices and low wages, some of the worst economic unrest here in 30 years.
The worker bonuses and other concessions promised to workers by the prime minister show the government's worry that economic angst could boil over _ a risk the U.N. warns could hit many poor countries as world inflation spirals.
The soft approach is in stark contrast to the rough treatment that the quarter-century-old regime of President Hosni Mubarak metes out to its political opponents, particularly the Muslim Brotherhood, the …
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