Egypt PM in hot water over "unclean breasts" remarks

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Egypt PM in hot water over "unclean breasts" remarks

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-pm-hot-water-over-unclean-breasts-remarks-165430619.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/eQ2VnemSc7erHB_YsYAEKw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-02-08T165430Z_1_CBRE9171AZE00_RTROPTP_2_CNEWS-US-EGYPT-BREASTS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Egypt's Prime Minister Hisham Kandil attends annual meeting of WEF in Davos" align="left" title="Egypt's Prime Minister Hisham Kandil attends annual meeting of WEF in Davos" border="0" /></a>CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's prime minister faces accusations of being out of touch with the country's crisis after televised comments blaming rural infant sickness on mothers not washing their breasts. Hisham Kandil, a former irrigation minister widely seen as a stolid technocrat, was speaking at a meeting with journalists broadcast on state television this week when he veered into a ramble on the &quot;miseries&quot; of life in rural Egypt. &quot;In my work, I've gone around the countryside,&quot; he said. &quot;There are villages in Egypt, in the 21st century, where children get diarrhea ... ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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