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Top official insists decision was not political as Israel says it overshadows peace agreement between the two countries. The head of the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company has said it has terminated its contract to ship gas to Israel because of violations of contractual obligations, a decision Israel said overshadowed the peace agreement between the two [...]
Continue Reading →Cairo demonstrations over Egyptian lawyer arrested in Saudi Arabia lead Riyadh to recall ambassador and close missions. Saudi Arabia has decided to recall its ambassador to Cairo and close its diplomatic missions in Egypt after protests outside its embassy over an arrested Egyptian lawyer, state news agency SPA reported. An official spokesman, quoted by SPA, [...]
Continue Reading →By the time he finally resigned Friday, Muhammad Hosni Sayyid Mubarak had ruled Egypt longer than anyone since Muhammad Ali Pasha, the Albanian-born viceroy of the Ottoman Empire credited with bringing Egypt into the modern age. Mubarak was a son of the soil, born 82 years ago on the Nile delta, but in his three [...]
Continue Reading →Cairo, Egypt (CNN) — Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Thursday blamed the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood for the violence unfolding in Cairo and said he would like to step down right away, but cannot because he does not want to risk plunging his nation into chaos, ABC News reported. Mubarak told ABC correspondent Christiane Amanpour that [...]
Continue Reading →Reaction is mixed, with the US calling for reform and Saudi Arabia condemning the protests. International reaction to the ongoing protests in Egypt has been mixed, with Barack Obama, the US president, voicing support for an “orderly transition” in Egypt in phone calls with foreign leaders. Obama spoke by phone on Saturday with Saudi Arabia’s King [...]
Continue Reading →Nobel laureate tells defiant Cairo crowd that he has a mandate to negotiate with Mubarak government. Mohamed ElBaradei, a leading opposition figure, has joined thousands of protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, in continued demonstrations demanding an end to President Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule. The former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency told the crowd [...]
Continue Reading →Violent protests have spread across the Egyptian capital, Cairo, and other Egyptian cities as tens of thousands of demonstrators intensified their campaign to oust President Hosni Mubarak. Protesters have been pouring out from mosques after noon prayers on Friday and clashing with police who fired tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons to disperse the [...]
Continue Reading →Thousands of protesters called for the ouster of president Mubarak [AFP] As the Egyptian government continues to crack down on massive protests calling for the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, all eyes are on the security forces tasked with putting down the demonstrations. Egypt has one of the largest and most powerful armed forces in [...]
Continue Reading →Protesters in Egypt are calling for “regime change, not cabinet change”, our correspondent said Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has appointed the country’s head of intelligence to the post of vice-president, in a move said to be a reaction to days of anti-government protests in cities across the country. Omar Suleiman was sworn in on Saturday, [...]
Continue Reading →Amid spreading protests, the Egyptian government has taken the incredible step of shutting down all communications late Thursday. Only a handful of web connections, including those to the nation’s stock exchange, remain up and running. It’s an astonishing move, and one that seems almost unimaginable for a nation that not only has a relatively strong [...]
Continue Reading →Egyptian Revolution 25/1 2011
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