Bikya Masr
CAIRO: Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will be brought to Cairo next week for questioning in his corruption case, according to Mustafa Bakri, a former Member of Parliament. In statements to CNN on Thursday, Bakri said he brought the case ...
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Bikya MasrEgyptian prime minister resigns; demonstrations for reform still planned
Los Angeles Times
Demonstrators shout for the resignation of Ahmed Shafiq outside a government building in Cairo. (Peter Andrews, Reuters / March 3, 2011) By Jeffrey Fleishman and Garrett Therolf, Los Angeles Times The prime minister appointed by ousted President Hosni ...
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Los Angeles Times
Opposition Over Planned Lara Logan Protest in Cairo
myfoxny.com
(NewsCore) - Plans to stage a Cairo protest demanding justice for CBS news correspondent Lara Logan have met with widespread opposition in Egypt, the Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper reported Wednesday. Logan was beaten and sexually assaulted by a group of ...
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Union protests are America's Cairo moment
Bellingham Herald
By MICHAEL J. WILSON WASHINGTON The frustration and idealism that poured into the streets of Cairo in early February and eventually changed that nation are finding their counterpoints at state capitals across the United States. In Egypt, the goal was ...
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Turkey's Gul: Egypt army serious about transition
Reuters Africa
Gul arrived in Cairo as Egypt's Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq resigned and a former transport minister was picked to appoint a new government after pro-democracy activists demanded a purge of Mubarak's old guard from the cabinet. ...
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Worldview: What becomes of the Mideast revolts depends on Egypt | Philadelphia ...
Philadelphia Inquirer
Of course, a democratic Egypt would not be as unquestioning an ally - or as quiescent a peace partner to Israel - as was Hosni Mubarak. Public pressure would force it to push much harder for a Palestinian state. But, based on many interviews in Cairo, ...
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Ghana Evacuation Liaison Team in Egypt to accomplish mission
Ghana News Agency
Cairo, March 3, GNA - The six-member government-constituted Evacuation Liaison Team (ELT) is in Egypt to speed up the evacuation of Ghanaians trapped by the degenerating political crisis in Libya. The ELT leaves Cairo on Thursday for Saloom, ...
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Ghana News Agency
In pictures: Libya refugee crisis
BBC News
The Italian government also said it would send ships and planes to help evacuate Egyptian workers back to Cairo. Italy is preparing for a fresh influx of migrants escaping political turmoil in North Africa. These Pakistani and Bangladeshi workers ...
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Recent Uprisings in Arab Countries
Press Information Bureau (press release)
Our embassies in Tripoli, Cairo [to assist Indians coming out of Libya by land/sea border to Egypt] and Tunis [to assist Indians coming out of Libya by land border to Tunisia] are working round the clock and Government is doing its best to assist in ...
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Egypt: Stop Military Trials of Civilians
Human Rights Watch (press release)
(Cairo) - Egyptian military authorities should stop using military tribunals to prosecute civilians, Human Rights Watch said today. The military should also halt detentions of peaceful demonstrators and end violence by soldiers against protesters and ...
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Mubarak ally watches Egypt from uncertain exile
Washington Post
... was able to leave Cairo and fly first to the coastal city of Alexandria, to pick up a daughter, and then on to Dubai. He got out just before several of Egypt's top business figures and government officials were rounded up on corruption allegations. ...
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Washington Post
Christian Persecution: Egyptian Army Attacks Coptic Monasteries
Catholic Online
Then around February 20, the army attacked Saint Makarios Monastery of Alexandria located about 62 miles from Cairo. The article states that the army stormed the monastery using live ammunition. When the attack was over, more than ten monks were ...
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Home of Driving PRs... Egypt / Over 50000 migrants transit at the Libyan ...
AUTO-MOBI.info (press release)
In addition to at least 335000 Egyptians working in Libya according to Egypt's Centre for Public Mobilization and Statistics, embassy sources in Cairo confirmed that Libya also hosts around 80000 Pakistanis, 59000 Sudanese, 50000 Bangladeshis, ...
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How Palestine's Uprising Inspired Egypt's
The Indypendent
More than 30000 Egyptians fought the police in downtown Cairo, briefly taking over Tahrir Square, and burning down Mubarak's billboard. The scenes aired by Al Jazeera and other satellite networks of the Palestinian revolt or the US-led onslaught on ...
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The Indypendent
Egypt's “Unholy” Claim to the Sinai
FrontPage Magazine
“The Egyptians saw Sinai as a foreign territory, at the most a border colony, and they treated it accordingly,” Livneh wrote. “[T]he Cairo government did nothing to populate and develop the Peninsula, in spite of Egypt's overabundant population and the ...
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Mubarak Regime 'Provoked' Attacks on Christians
Inter Press Service
"Many people believe the sectarian incidents taking place in the country were the making of state security forces," says Moustafa Kamel El-Sayed, a professor of political science at Cairo University. "Some might be surprised if they were not." Egypt ...
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Egypt to hold march of millions Friday
Press TV
Thousands of Egyptians protested in downtown Cairo last Friday, demanding that the government be purged of all remnants of ousted President Hosni Mubarak's regime. Since Mubarak's ouster on February 11, Egyptians have called on the ruling military to ...
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Press TV
Women Step to Frontline in Mideast Protests
ChristianityToday.com (blog)
“Women's rights will be a litmus test for the new government,” writes Isobel Coleman for The Washington Post, in reference to Egypt, “a sign of where the country is headed.” Meanwhile, a group of women in Jos, Nigeria, are threatening to launch similar ...
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Reuters World News Highlights 1400 GMT, March 3
Forexyard
CAIRO - Egypt's Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq resigned on Thursday and the military asked a former transport minister to form a new government which pro-democracy activists hope will be purged of Hosni Mubarak's old guard. ISLAMABAD - Pakistan must not ...
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ANHRI says US, EU must stop exporting anti-riot gear to Arab world
Bikya Masr
CAIRO: The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information requested the United States and European Union to stop exporting “anti-riot” gear, including tear gas, batons, and rubber bullets, to dictatorships, especially in the Arab world. ...
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Bikya Masr
Iran warships to transit Suez Canal Thursday: officials
AFP
Analysts said it was an attempt by the Islamic republic to project its clout in the region at a time when anti-government protests sweeping the Arab world from Casablanca to Cairo are shifting the regional balance of power. Egypt's ruling military ...
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Planned Egyptian Demonstration In Support Of Lara Logan Met With Opposition By ...
Mediaite.com
You may recall that, on the night former Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak stepped down, Logan was attacked and sexually assaulted by a group of men in Cairo's Tahrir Square. While Logan's assault – as well as both the public and media's reaction to it ...
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Plenty of Opportunity for Investors Despite Regional Conflicts
Seeking Alpha
In Egypt, the revolution, at least partly, began with the creation of Facebook groups that gained hundreds of thousands of members and promoted the early protests in Cairo. In real-time on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube we can all be witness to these ...
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Officials dispute claim diplomat leaving over gov't polices
Jerusalem Post
“Didn't he have these problems when he applied for the Cairo position?” Baruch, who sent out a parting e-mail to his co-workers on Monday saying that the government's polices were leading to the delegitimization of Israel, responded by saying that the ...
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My 100mph race to get out of Libya
Fife Today
Roy Balfour (52) told the Press how he and his colleague were driven at high speed for almost 15 hours from the city of Benghazi to Cairo, Egypt as anti-government demonstrations, opposing the Gaddafi regime, erupted in the north African country. ...
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Children of diplomats displaced by strife often caught between two worlds
Washington Post
The surge of recent arrivals began with an exodus from Ivory Coast in January and was followed last month by a group from Egypt - 33 students and their families from Cairo alone. A wave from Libya began landing over the weekend. ...
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Ugandan Students Stranded in Egypt Call For Help | Ugandans Abroad
By ugandansabroad
Kinene said that the government evacuated students with government sponsorship from neighboring universities, Alexandria University and Cairo University, but the other students were left behind. 32 students from Alexandria and Cairo ...
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Live Blog - Egypt | Al Jazeera Blogs
By Al Jazeera Staff
2:03 pm Al Jazeera's Anita McNaught says of the prosecutor general's move that, "It means that he is isolated, and that some of the rumours doing the circles in Cairo that the government has merely moved to Sharm-el-Sheikh and that ...
Al Jazeera Blogs | Al Jazeera blogs Feed - http://blogs.aljazeera.net/
Blogging from Cairo: Stop blaming the victims. Egypt's expulsion ...
By Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert
Blogging from Cairo: Stop blaming the victims. Egypt's expulsion of a banker puppet is something that should be repeated in the Wisconson, Ohio and Idaho . . . and a few other states. March 2nd, 2011 by maxkeiser · Oil Prices are Double- Edged Sword; ..... If schools do not apply for Academy Status, they lose a substantial grant from the government. So, the schools have no choice. Teachers are very demoralised by the whole thing. The unions have let us down. ...
Max Keiser - http://maxkeiser.com/
Egypt's military says prime minister has resigned | The Daily ...
CAIRO (AP) — The prime minister appointed by ousted President Hosni Mubarak has resigned, Egypt's military rulers said Thursday, meeting a key demand of the opposition protest movement. In a failed attempt to quiet the anti-government ...
The Daily Caller - Breaking News,... - http://dailycaller.com/
EU airlifts to bring Egyptians home from Libya - Bikya Masr
By Mohamed Abdel Salam
Italy will also help with the situation at the request of the Tunisian and Egyptian governments. Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said on Wednesday that Italy received a request from the Egyptian caretaker government and from the ... with United Nations authorities to provide food and first aid to people fleeing Libya and help identify Egyptians and then bring them safely to Egypt on ships to the port of Alexandria or with military planes to Cairo Airport. ...
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Egypt in our Hearts | Travel Video News
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Story & Photo By Mario Masciullo, eTN | March, 2011 AL TAHRIR SQUARE, Egypt (eTN ) - Thousand of Egyptians filled Cairo's symbolic Al Tahrir Square. ... According to data from government sources, this should also be the second source of income after remittances.” The minister also informed that a support scheme for tour operators will be available to facilitate their promotion of the ...
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The Indypendent » How Palestine's Uprising Inspired Egypt's
By The Indypendent
Trade unions were put under government control. Only after the Palestinian intifada broke out in September 2000 did tens of thousands of Egyptians take to the streets in protest — probably for the first time since 1977. Although those demonstrations were in solidarity with ... Millions of Egyptians, while sitting at home, could watch those daring young activists in downtown Cairo mocking the president, raising banners with slogans that were unimaginable a decade before. ...
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Arabic Network For Human Rights Informations » Egypt: The Arabic ...
By marwa
Cairo, March 3rd , 2011. The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information welcomed the positive step of the Egyptian authorities on March 3rd , 2011, accepting the resignation of former Egyptian PM Ahmed Shafiq in response to the demands ... Shafiq headed the government whose some members have arranged to hire thugs and mercenaries to attack the sit ins in Tahrir Sq. on Wednesday, February 2nd , 2011. Egyptians were able to crush them, and remained in constant marches in ...
Arabic Network For Human Rights... - http://www.anhri.net/en/
Mubarak-appointed Prime Minister Shafiq quits on demand of ...
By The.Authoritative.Link
By Mona Salem Cairo (AFP) – Egypt's military rulers have accepted the surprise resignation of Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq, seen by protesters as a symbol of ousted president Hosni Mubarak's regime, the army said on Thursday. He will be replaced by Essam Sharaf, ... The council has previously ordered the government to run the country's affairs for six months “or until the end of parliamentary and presidential elections” and is also examining constitutional reforms. ...
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Special Report Tahrir, a month after – Ceasefire Magazine
By hich
One Egyptian PhD student I spoke to told me that the idea of a united Arab union was popular amongst young people in Egypt. “It wouldn't have to have all the decisions made by one central government” he explained, “but there would be more co-operation between Arab countries; ... A small example is a series of small plastic bins that have been attached to lampposts and trees in downtown Cairo with small signs encouraging citizens to take pride in their streets. ...
Ceasefire Magazine - http://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/
After protester criticisms, Egypt's prime minister quits « Kia Ora ...
By kiaoragaza
Ahmed Shafiq, appointed as Egypt's prime minister by Hosni Mubarak just before his fall, has resigned following criticisms by protest leadsers. by Hamza Hendawi in Cairo. Arab News. 3 March 2011. Article abridged ... A brief statement posted on the military's official website said it had chosen former Transport Minister Essam Sharaf as the new prime minister, tasking him with forming a new caretaker Cabinet to run the government throughout a transition to civilian rule. ...
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Sic Semper Tyrannis : #Egypt 1952 and 2011 - Dr. Amatzia Baram
By turcopolier
Had it not been for Henry Kissinger Egypt would have lost half of its armed forces. The Israeli road to Cairo was open. This explains the commanders' support for al-Sadat's peace initiative and for his decision to move Egypt from the Eastern to .... Another initiative of the new Egyptian government may be to open the border between Egypt and the Gaza strip. The Pew poll shows that 49% of Muslims in Egypt have a favorable opinion and 48% have an unfavorable view of Hamas. ...
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Egypt bans Mubarak from travel, freezes assets
By Steve Hendrix and James V. Grimaldi CAIRO - Egypt's top prosecutor on Monday ... government moved ahead with an investigation into charges of corruption. ...
www.washingtonpost.com/wp.../AR2011022806392.html
Egyptian prime minister resigns; demonstrations for reform still ...
... for the resignation of Ahmed Shafiq outside a government building in Cairo. ... Mubarak resigned Thursday as Egypt's revolutionary movement prepared for ...
www.latimes.com/.../la-fg-egypt-resign-20110304,0,2355852...
Mubarak Is Said to Leave Egypt
By REUTERS CAIRO (Reuters) — A state-owned Egyptian newspaper said Wednesday that ... The interim military government could not be reached for comment. ...
www.nytimes.com/2011/03/02/world/africa/02egypt.html
Egyptians mass in Cairo to mark Mubarak fall - USATODAY.com
An Egyptian army band plays music in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday during ... "We'll stay in the square until there is a new government, because there is ...
www.usatoday.com/news/world/2011-02-18-Egypt_N.htm
BBC News - Huge Cairo rally marks one week since Mubarak overthrow
"I call on the Egyptian army to liberate us from the government that Mubarak formed," Mr ... Life in Egypt remains disrupted, with tanks on Cairo's streets, ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12502189
Egyptians mass in Cairo to mark Mubarak's fall | WSLS 10
Hundreds of thousands of flag-waving Egyptians packed into Cairo's central ... Protesters want the army to dissolve the caretaker government headed by Prime ...
www2.wsls.com/.../egyptians-mass-cairo-mark-mubaraks-fall-...
Egypt, Cairo, Ahmed Shafiq | The Asian Age
Cairo: Egypt's public prosecutor has issued an order imposing a travel ban on former ... Cairo: After anti-government unrest spread to the Libyan capital of ...
www.asianage.com/taxonomy/.../20608%2B19258%2B13175
Egyptians mass in Cairo to mark fall of Mubarak
CAIRO — Egyptians thronged again to Tahrir Square on Friday, ... Protesters want the army to dissolve the caretaker government headed by Prime Minister ...
www.smdailyjournal.com/article_preview.php?id=152959
Egypt on the edge: democracy last hope to fight poverty — RT
The Egyptian army has started arresting anti-government protesters in the center of Cairo. Egypt unrest Arab world protests. 02.02, 18:45 5 comments ...
rt.com/news/egypt-democracy-hope/
Remarks at the Arab League, Cairo, Egypt
Remarks at the Arab League, Cairo, Egypt. ... Lipton over the next couple of days to listening to the priorities of Egyptians inside and outside government, ...
www.state.gov/p/us/rm/2011/156835.htm
France24 - Nationwide 'victory march' marks one week since ...
It's a message to the army and the government that we're still here and we will still ... EGYPT. Businesses tentatively reopen in Cairo but protesters - and ...
www.france24.com/.../20110218-mubarak-downfall-protestor...
EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES CAIRO, EGYPT - Travel Warning
The U.S. Embassy in Cairo remains on ordered departure status, ... The Government of Egypt has modified the curfew for the country several times. ...
egypt.usembassy.gov/tw021911.html
