Egypt finance minister resigns over Cairo protests

 CAIRO — An aide to Egypt's finance minister and deputy prime minister says the official has resigned in protest over the government's handling of the protests in Cairo that left 26 dead, most of them Coptic Christians.
Angry Egyptian Christians protest against the military ruling council in Cairo Egypt, Monday, Oct.10, 2011, a day after at least more than two dozen were killed when Christians, angered by a recent church attack, clashed Sunday night with Muslims and security forces outside the state television building in central Cairo. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
Egyptians are gathering around the coffins of 17 of the Copts who were killed during clashes with the Egyptian army late Sunday, outside the morgue of the Copts hospital in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Oct. 10, 2011. Egypt's Coptic church blasted authorities Monday for allowing repeated attacks on Christians with impunity as the death toll from a night of rioting rose to more than two dozen, most of them Christians who were trying to stage a peaceful protest in Cairo over an attack on a church. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
Bodies of four of the Egyptian Copts who were killed during clashes with the Egyptian army late Sunday, lay on the ground with blocks of ice on them at the morgue of the Copts hospital in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Oct. 10, 2011.
Egypt's Coptic church blasted authorities Monday for allowing repeated attacks on Christians with impunity as the death toll from a night of rioting rose to more than two dozen, most of them Christians who were trying to stage a peaceful protest in Cairo over an attack on a church. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
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