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Egyptian authorities confirmed Sunday that at least one man was killed and 70 others injured when a soccer victory celebration erupted into a violent clash between Egyptian workers and Iraqis. The melee in the narrow boulevards and cramped alleyways of Baghdad's Little Cairo neighborhood on Friday night followed months of increasing tension among Egyptian laborers here, who have been flooding back to Egypt at the rate of nearly 3,000 a day.

As tensions escalate in the Persian Gulf, the economic ripple effects are starting to take a toll in the region, with billions of dollars being withdrawn from local banks, investment plans suddenly placed on hold and hundreds of thousands of expatriate workers facing the loss of jobs.

As tensions escalate in the Persian Gulf, the economic ripple effects are starting to take a toll in the region, with billions of dollars being withdrawn from local banks, investment plans suddenly placed on hold and hundreds of thousands of expatriate workers facing the loss of jobs.

Egyptian authorities confirmed Sunday that at least one man was killed and 70 others injured when a soccer victory celebration erupted into a violent clash between Egyptian workers and Iraqis. The melee in the narrow boulevards and cramped alleyways of Baghdad's Little Cairo neighborhood on Friday night followed months of increasing tension among Egyptian laborers here, who have been flooding back to Egypt at the rate of nearly 3,000 a day.