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The ascii85nited States is concerned aboascii117t detentions and attacks on news media in Egypt, the State Department said on Wednesday in its first reaction to battles erascii117pting in Cairo between sascii117pporters and opponents of Egyptian President Hosni Mascii117barak.

'We are concerned aboascii117t detentions and attacks on news media in Egypt. The civil society that Egypt wants to bascii117ild inclascii117des a free press,' State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said in a message on Twitter.