Suhasini Haider discusses with Imran Khan if Pakistan is going the Egypt way on India @ 9. ...
08:44 PM, Feb 23, 2011
Brussels: British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Monday he had "some information" that Libyan leader Muammer Gaddafi was en route to Venezuela. Libya has been rocked by a bloody crackdown on anti-government protests in recent days. The demonstrations followed popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia which drove those countries' leaders into exile. "I have no information that says he is (already there), although I have seen some information that...
11:09 PM, Feb 21, 2011
Cairo: Banks across Egypt have reopened after an almost week long closure triggered by massive strikes and protests in public sector financial institutions. Egyptian lined up early on Sunday morning, waiting for their first chance to conduct their business since the banks closed a week earlier on order from the Central Bank. Labor unrest that surged exponentially in the days after the popular uprising that unseated Hosni Mubarak on February...
04:25 PM, Feb 20, 2011
New York: Funds belonging to the family of ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and the former senior ministers of his regime have been discovered in Switzerland, a Swiss government official said. However, the official did not specify the amount of money or who controlled the account, The New York Times reported. "The first traces have been identified. At the end of the week, we might have a better picture." said...
08:50 PM, Feb 18, 2011
Cairo: Egypt's Supreme Council of the armed forces, which is currently running the country after protests ousted president Hosni Mubarak, has opened a Facebook page to promote its image among youngsters. "This page will make it possible for people to make complaints or requests," the army said in a statement. This new form of contact would make relations between the Egyptian people and the Supreme Council more transparent and trustful,...
07:47 PM, Feb 18, 2011
Cairo: Tens of thousands of flag-waving Egyptians packed into Tahrir Square for a day of prayer and celebration on Friday to mark the fall of longtime leader Hosni Mubarak a week ago and to maintain pressure on the new military rulers to steer the country toward democratic reforms. The groups that sparked the 18-day revolt leading to Mubarak's downfall called the massive gathering the "Friday of Victory and Continuation," a...
05:01 PM, Feb 18, 2011
London: The family of ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has reportedly moved to a "secret" address in London, a media report said on Thursday. The London Evening Standard said the deposed leader's first granddaughter was born in an expensive private hospital in London last year despite recent claims that his son Gamal, 47, no longer lives in the British capital. Farida was born in March last year at the private...
07:22 PM, Feb 17, 2011
New York: A female CBS News correspondent was recovering in a US hospital from a sexual attack and beating she sustained while reporting on the tumultuous events in Cairo. Lara Logan was in Egypt's Tahrir Square on Friday after Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak stepped down when she, her team and their security "were surrounded by a dangerous element amidst the celebration," CBS said in a statement on Tuesday. The network...
09:28 AM, Feb 16, 2011
Cairo: Egypt's military delivered an ultimatum on Monday to dozens of committed protesters in Tahrir Square, nerve-centre of a movement that toppled Hosni Mubarak, to leave and let life get back to normal or face arrest. Soldiers scuffled with protesters on Sunday as the army ensured traffic flowed through the central Cairo square. Some protesters insisted on staying, determined to see through their demands for civilian rule and a free,...
05:26 PM, Feb 14, 2011
Just days after demands to reset Egypt's political system were met, people now protest against corruption in banks. ...
03:17 PM, Feb 14, 2011
Cairo: Ousted Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak is still in the country's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq said on Sunday. "What I know is that the (former) president is in Sharm el-Sheikh," Shafiq told reporters during his first news conference since the 82-year-old Mubarak left Cairo last Friday amid unprecedented anti-government protests. Earlier there were rumours that Mubarak, who had ruled Egypt for 30 years, had...
11:59 PM, Feb 13, 2011
A monument that has been erected in memory of those who laid down their lives in the 18-day long protests. ...
09:54 AM, Feb 13, 2011
Cairo: Hosni Mubarak was supposed to announce his resignation on Thursday. The Egyptian military expected it. The new head of his ruling party pleaded to him face-to-face to do it. But despite more than two weeks of massive demonstrations by protesters unmoved by lesser concessions, the president still didn't get it. Mubarak's top aides and family - including his son Gamal, widely viewed as his intended successor - told him...
08:01 AM, Feb 13, 2011
Cairo: Egypt's new military rulers told the nation on Saturday they were committed to civilian rule and democracy after Hosni Mubarak's overthrow and said they would respect all treaties, a move to reassure Israel and Washington. Some pro-democracy activists in Cairo's Tahrir (Liberation) Square, the epicentre of an earthquake of popular protest that unseated Mubarak, have vowed to stay there until the Higher Military Council accepts their agenda for democratic...
07:25 AM, Feb 13, 2011
Washington: Winds of change are sweeping through the Middle East, encompassing eastern Asia and northern Africa, triggering a series of political shifts in response to widespread discontent that once went unacknowledged. Egypt's simmering unrest that forced Hosni Mubarak to resign as the president after nearly three decades of uninterrupted rule, has hogged the world's attention for weeks. The unrest exploded into mass demonstrations against the autocratic rule of Mubarak, who...
08:26 PM, Feb 12, 2011
Cairo: Joyful Egyptians in thousands were still holding celebrations as dawn broke in the Egyptian capital singing and dancing in the streets as the country's Army began removing the barricades around the famous Tahrir Square, the hub of the popular revolt that toppled the despot Hosni Mubarak from power after three decades. Revellers still occupied the Square this morning after a nightlong celebrations, but units from the Army began to...
04:34 PM, Feb 12, 2011
San Francisco: A Google Inc executive who has become a hero of the Egyptian revolution is public relations gold for the Internet power, but analysts say the company must be careful not to overplay its hand. Google marketing executive Wael Ghonim became the public face of the uprising that led to President Hosni Mubarak handing power to the army on Friday. Ghonim was detained by security forces and came out...
01:18 PM, Feb 12, 2011
Beijing: An official Chinese newspaper on Saturday called for stability in Egypt after the fall of President Hosni Mubarak and said foreigners should keep from intervening, offering Beijing's first reaction to the Egyptian leader's resignation. The comments underscored that Beijing's reaction to the upheaval in Egypt is likely to be more cautious, and more driven by concerns about its own internal control, than the welcome in Western capitals to Mubarak's...
09:39 AM, Feb 12, 2011
Cairo: A furious wave of protest swept Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak from power on Friday after 30 years of one-man rule, sparking jubilation on the streets and sending a warning to autocrats across the Arab world and beyond. Mubarak, the second Arab leader to be overthrown by a popular uprising in a month, handed power to the army after 18 days of relentless rallies against poverty, corruption and repression caused...
09:10 AM, Feb 12, 2011
Watch the first reactions from Tahrir Square after the announcement of Hosni Mubarak's stepping down was made. ...
08:42 AM, Feb 12, 2011
