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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/jordanians-protest-at-rising-prices.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="A Jordanian man brandishes a loaf of bread during a protest against rising food prices in Amman, Jordan (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-jordanians-protest-at-rising-prices.jpg" alt="A Jordanian man brandishes a loaf of bread during a protest against rising food prices in Amman, Jordan (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>More than 5,000 Jordanians demanding the prime minister&#8217;s removal have taken to the streets to protest at rising fuel and food prices.</p>
<p>University students, leftists and labour activists staged rallies in five cities &#8211; Amman, Irbid, Karak, Salt and Maan &#8211; waving Jordanian flags, carrying placards and chanting for Prime Minister Samir Rifai to step down.</p>
<p>&#8220;Prices, particularly gasoline and food, are getting out of hand,&#8221; said Buthaina Iftial, a 24-year-old civil servant protesting in central Amman.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re becoming poorer every day,&#8221; she said, holding a poster with a piece of Arabic flat bread attached.</p>
<p>Police and plain clothes officers formed rings around the demonstrators to contain the protests. There were no reports of arrests or violence.</p>
<p>With deadly economic riots rocking Tunisia and Algeria, Jordan slashed prices and taxes on some foods and fuel on the orders of King Abdullah I earlier this week to help ease the burden on the poor.</p>
<p>Jordan&#8217;s powerful Muslim Brotherhood opposition did not take part in the latest demonstrations. It has called the government&#8217;s measures insufficient and said it will stage a sit-in in front of parliament on Sunday to voice its criticism.</p>
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