The change in law meant that cases where the victim was asleep or intoxicated are now included in the figures.

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Mr ElBaradei said the basic problem was that Mr Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood had spent 80 years in opposition, and was now "intoxicated with power".

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But now an intoxicated Israel wanted more, and the failure to make peace led both to a revival under Israeli occupation of a fierce Palestinian nationalism and the birth, under the spell of the six-day victory, of a Messianic national-religious Jewish expansionism.

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