Washington/Cairo: Reports suggest the Obama administration is brokering a deal for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to resign and hand over power to a transitional government headed by the Vice President. Meanwhile, the Egyptian people on Friday demanded Mubarak's resignation, calling Friday a "day of departure." Tens of thousands of Egyptians demonstrated peacefully in the recently besieged Tahrir Square. However, in areas close to the Tahrir Square clashes continued between supporters...
08:05 AM, Feb 05, 2011
Cairo: The death toll in the popular uprising in Egypt has now risen to 11, following the death of an Eqyptian reporter who died after being shot during clashes in Cairo last week. Ahmed Mohammed Mahmoud had been taking photographs of fighting between protesters and security forces from the balcony of his home when he was shot on January 28. This was the first reported death of a mediaperson as...
07:32 AM, Feb 05, 2011
Washington: Asserting that attacks on journalists, human rights activists and protesters in Egypt are "unacceptable", US President Barack Obama said his administration is closely monitoring the situation in the country. "In recent days we've seen violence and harassment erupt on the streets of Egypt that violates human rights, universal values and international norms. So we are sending a strong and unequivocal message. Attacks on reporters, human rights activists and peaceful...
07:12 AM, Feb 05, 2011
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11:53 PM, Feb 04, 2011
Cairo: Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians marched peacefully in Cairo on Friday to demand an immediate end to President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule, but there was no sign of his generals, or his U.S. allies, squeezing him out just yet. Turnout nationwide seemed short of the million seen on Tuesday and which leaders had hoped to match on what they called "Departure Day." Many Egyptians, weary of disorder, feel Mubarak...
11:37 PM, Feb 04, 2011
Cairo: Tens of thousands of Egyptians prayed in Cairo's Liberation Square on Friday for an immediate end to President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule, hoping a million more would join them in what they called the "Day of Departure". "Leave! Leave! Leave!" they chanted after bowing in prayer and listening to a cleric declare "We want the head of the regime removed". He praised the "revolution of the young". The United...
09:56 PM, Feb 04, 2011
Paris: The UN's top human rights official and a chorus of European nations on Friday condemned attacks on reporters covering pro-democracy demonstrations in Egypt, while TV station Al-Jazeera announced its offices had been stormed and burned and its website hacked. The Qatar-based satellite station, widely watched in the Middle East, portrayed Friday's attack as an attempt by Egypt's regime or its supporters to hinder Al-Jazeera's coverage of the uprising in...
09:26 PM, Feb 04, 2011
Washington: President Barack Obama took some awkward steps this week, inching America away from its 30-year embrace of Egypt's Hosni Mubarak. "I think this is the most serious foreign policy crisis of the Obama presidency," said former senior US diplomat Nicholas Burns. Egypt has been America's most reliable ally in the Arab world, making peace with Israel, mediating with the Palestinians and even taking-up arms against another Arab nation, Iraq,...
07:33 PM, Feb 04, 2011
Cairo: Egypt's army has been instructed to assist foreign media and help protect them from groups in plain clothes who have attacked and beaten journalists as the capital's streets have become lawless, the cabinet said. The United States on Thursday condemned a "concerted campaign" to intimidate foreign reporters covering protests against Mubarak and said Egypt must not target journalists. Britain also criticised the harassment of journalists. "I spoke to the...
06:27 PM, Feb 04, 2011
Cairo: Egyptian Defence Minister Hussein Tantawi and senior army officials visited Tahrir square Friday morning to meet pro-democracy protesters, in what looks as a sign that Egypt's most powerful institution is sanctioning a demonstration, which thousands hope will lead to President Hosni Mubarak's departure. Protesters welcomed him chanting "Marshal, we are your sons for liberation!" The Egyptian military was guarding thousands of protesters pouring into Cairo's main square on Friday...
06:04 PM, Feb 04, 2011
Cairo: Anti-government protestors in Egypt have started marching from Cairo's Tahrir Square to the presidential palace. As soon as Friday prayers finished, several thousand protestors started their march towards the palace demanding that President Hosni Mubarak step down. The Speaker of Egypt's state-backed Al Azhar Mosque also resigned and joined the protesters in Tahrir Square who have been chanting "change, strength, nationalism, and justice". Most of the protestors carried the...
05:35 PM, Feb 04, 2011
Cairo: As thousands of protesters took part in Friday prayers in Cairo's Tahrir Square, some of those wounded in the previous day's violence were being treated at a makeshift field hospital nearby. Medics set up a first-aid clinic in a mosque bringing with them much needed supplies including bandages and medicine. Although many of the patients suffered only minor cuts and bruises some were being treated for gunshot wounds. "We...
05:35 PM, Feb 04, 2011
Tehran: Iran's supreme leader saluted on Friday what he termed an "Islamic liberation movement" in the Arab world, and advised the people of Egypt and Tunisia to unite around their religion and against the West. In his first public comments on the popular uprisings in the region, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Iran's Islamic revolution of 1979, which deposed the US-backed Shah, had served as an example to the people living...
05:23 PM, Feb 04, 2011
CNN-IBN: The crackdown on media in Egypt, what is your take on it? SM Krishna: I think the crackdown on the media, the assault on journalists from all over the world who had gathered to report about the developments in Egypt is certainly condemnable. It is an act against the freedom of the press, freedom of the media. And India does not go along with the situation. But at the...
04:03 PM, Feb 04, 2011
Cairo: Egypt's Defence Minister Mohamed Hussein Tantawi and commanders of the Egyptian army on Friday inspected Cairo's Tahrir Square, a media report said. Thousands of Egyptians are congregating at the square to hold protests against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Xinhua quoted state Nile News TV reported. There has been tension since Friday morning at the square, which is the focal point of protests to oust Mubarak. The protesters are determined...
03:21 PM, Feb 04, 2011
Thousands of protesters were chanting "change, strength, nationalism and justice" at Tahrir Square. ...
02:31 PM, Feb 04, 2011
Cairo: Egyptian Army tanks and soldiers in riot gear have surrounded Cairo's Tahrir Square as the Friday deadline for President Hosni Mubarak to step down expires. Anti-government protestors have gathered in large numbers at Tahrir Square, the epicenter of anti-Mubarak protests, and are planning to march to the presidential palace later on Friday. Several thousand anti-government protestors have gathered and are chanting slogans at the Tahrir Square. The protestors were...
01:45 PM, Feb 04, 2011
Their stable relations could be seriously threatened if Egypt ushers in a new political era. ...
01:17 PM, Feb 04, 2011
While journalists are being harassed in Egypt, here is a layout of Cairo, where major protests are taking place. ...
01:07 PM, Feb 04, 2011
