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Leader Post Online
| over 1 year ago
Egyptian former prime minister Kamal Ganzouri accepted a request from the ruling generals to form a new government, state media reported, but protesters brushed away their choice and vowed to hold another mass rally on Friday to demand the army quit...
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Bogota Bulletin
| over 1 year ago
Egypt's military rulers rejected protester demands for them to step down immediately and said Thursday they would start the first round of parliamentary elections on time next week despite serious unrest in Cairo and other cities. The ruling military...
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The Guardian
| over 1 year ago
International criticism of Egypt's military rulers is mounting after five days of clashes between police and protesters. Photograph: Tara Todras-Whitehill/AP Egypt 's ruling generals have defied their critics and declared that national elections will...
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NOW Lebanon
| over 1 year ago
Egypt's ruling military council on Thursday tasked former prime minister Kamal al-Ganzuri with forming a new cabinet, private Egyptian TV channels reported. Ganzuri headed the government from 1996 to 1999, under ousted president Hosni Mubarak. The...
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News 24
| over 1 year ago
Egyptian protesters and police observed a truce on Thursday after violence that has killed 39 people in five days, but said they would intensify pressure for an end to army rule with a mass rally on Friday in Tahrir Square backed by trade unions. The...
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The Daily Star
| over 1 year ago
Members of Egypt's ruling military council on Thursday rejected calls to step down immediately, saying it would amount to a "betrayal" as anti-military protests entered their seventh day. "The people have entrusted us with a mission and if we abandon...
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The Daily Star
| over 1 year ago
A member of Egypt's ruling military council said on Thursday the army respected the view of demonstrators in Cairo's Tahrir Square who have been demanding an end to military rule but said they did not represent all the Egyptian people. "If we look at...
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Taiwan News
| over 1 year ago
Thursday for the deaths of demonstrators during six-day rallies against Egypt's military rule, in a statement on their Facebook page. The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces presents its regrets and deep apologies for the deaths of martyrs from among...
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The Daily Star
| over 1 year ago
Egypt's ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces apologised on Thursday for the deaths of demonstrators during six straight days of anti-military rallies, in a statement on their Facebook page. "The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces presents its...
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Mail and Guardian
| over 1 year ago
Egyptians are set to vote on Monday in the first legislative elections since Hosni Mubarak was ousted but a deadly countdown to the polls has cast a dark shadow over Egypt's first step to democratic rule. For days, bloody clashes have raged in Cairo'...
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Ynet News
| over 1 year ago
Reuters Police forces in Tahrir Square Photo: Reuters Security forces spray tear gas on stone-throwing demonstrators, fire guns into the air; witnesses say some protesters shot dead Reuters After six days of violence that has killed more than 30...
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Mail and Guardian
| over 1 year ago
Running battles flared in central Cairo on Wednesday even after Egyptian military police reinforced riot police guarding the interior ministry, a flashpoint for violence. Riot police had earlier pulled back in what seemed to be an effort to calm...
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NOW Lebanon
| over 1 year ago
Egypt's military ruler said on Tuesday that presidential polls will be held by the end of June, and offered a referendum on the immediate transfer of power in a bid to defuse tensions after days of deadly anti-military rallies. Field Marshal Hussein...
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Taiwan News
| over 1 year ago
Hussein Tantawi rules Egypt government stated today prudential election will hold at the end of June in 2012 and that moreover, he will shift his regime also take place the referendum. He also said he already accepted the assignation from PM Essam...
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Toronto Star
| over 1 year ago
The new wave of protests and violence has thrown Egypt's politics into chaos less than a week before landmark parliamentary elections. Tuesday that presidential elections will be held by the end of June 2012. But the major concession was immediately...
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The Age
| over 1 year ago
Story continues below He said the council had accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Essam Sharaf's cabinet and had "tasked it to carry on working until a new government is formed ... to handle the transition in cooperation with the Supreme...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| over 1 year ago
In a speech announcing concessions to protesters who massed in Cairo's Tahrir Square to demand the army withdraw from power, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi said the council accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Essam Sharaf's cabinet. The...
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NOW Lebanon
| over 1 year ago
Egypt's military ruler said on Tuesday that presidential elections will be held by end of June 2012, and that a referendum on the immediate transfer of power would be organized if necessary. Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, who took power when Hosni...
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Indian Express
| over 1 year ago
28 hrs Tahrir Square was where the Arab Spring found its most potent symbol, the most stirring expression and, in the flight of Hosni Mubarak, its first big strike...But after just eight months of Mubaraks fall and less that a week before...
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The Guardian
| over 1 year ago
Protesters place a puppet depicting head of the ruling military council Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi on an Egyptian national flag in Tahrir Square. Egypt 's ruling military struggled to quell growing protests over its slow progress in...
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Canada.com
| over 1 year ago
Egypt's ruling generals offered on Tuesday to transfer power to a civilian president by July in a dramatic attempt to placate protesters and defuse a political crisis that has jolted plans for the country's first free election in decades. The...
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Zee News
| over 1 year ago
Egypt's civilian government headed by Essam Sharaf resigned yesterday following three days of violent protests that claimed over 30 lives, but reports said the ruling military council was seeking agreement on a new prime minister before it would...
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Telegram & Gazette
| over 1 year ago
Egyptian politicians say the ruling military has moved up the date for transferring power to a civilian government to July 1, 2012. Abu al-alla Madi and Mohammed Selim el-Awa, two politicians who attended a five-hour crisis meeting with the military...
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The Guardian
| over 1 year ago
Ruling military accepts resignation of government. -EC 11am: Welcome to the Guardian's continuing live coverage of the 'million march' in Tahrir Square...Tens of thousands of people have gathered in Egypt's Tahrir Square in response to a call for a...
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The Age
| over 1 year ago
Ruth Pollard, Cairo November 23, 2011 A protester has tear-gas washed from his eyes with milk...In a blow to Egypt's ruling military council, the interim cabinet, led by Prime Minister Essam Sharaf, bowed to protesters' demands and offered its...
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The independent
| over 1 year ago
Autoplay Suggested Topics Egyptians frustrated with military rule battled police in the streets again today as the generals scrambled to cope with the cabinet's proffered resignation after bloodshed that has jolted plans for Egypt's first free...
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NOW Lebanon
| over 1 year ago
Egypt's ruling military on Tuesday discussed the possibility of appointing ex-UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei to head a new government after the cabinet's resignation, a military source told AFP...The military source, who attended the...
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The Guardian
| over 1 year ago
Protesters on the edge of Tahrir Square, where reports say three American students were arrested. Photograph: Andre Pain/EPA The US embassy in Cairo is investigating claims that three American students were arrested in Tahrir Square on Monday,...
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The independent
| over 1 year ago
Egyptians are converging on Cairo's central Tahrir Square in response to a call for a so-called million-man march as protests against the country's military rulers enter a fourth day. Thousands of Egyptian protesters have been camping out on the...
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Zee News
| over 1 year ago
Activists are hoping to increase the number of protesters in the square which was the epicenter of the revolt that ousted Hosni Mubarak in mid-February with a demonstration to bolster popular support for a "second revolution." Violence also continued,...
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Daily News & Analysis
| over 1 year ago
Fresh violence was feared as Egyptians today converged on Cairo's revolutionary Tahrir Square in response to a call for a million man march, threatening to derail the country's first elections since the fall of Hosni Mubarak. Sensing widespread...
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Mail Online UK
| over 1 year ago
More than 20,000 protesters camped out in the area last night and clashed with police officers trying to force them to leave. Three Americans were arrested outside the Interior Ministry accused of throwing Molotov cocktails. A total of 33 protesters...
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NOW Lebanon
| over 1 year ago
Egyptians streamed to Cairo's Tahrir Square on Tuesday for a mass rally to demand an end to military rule, heightening tension after days of deadly clashes that threaten to derail next week's legislative elections...The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's...
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
The BBC reports that at least 33 people have been killed to date, and hundreds more injured, as violent battles between protesters and security forces enter their fourth day. The news that Egypt 's military-appointed Cabinet had offered to resign...
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AKI
| over 1 year ago
Egyptian activiists have called for a massive demonstration in Cairo in the wake of protests that claimed the lives of at least 26 people in three days. Meanwhile, Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood said it would not take part in demonstrations and have...
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Voice of America
| over 1 year ago
Arrott Protesters entrenched in Tahrir square as standoff continues into a fourth day, Cairo Egypt, November 22, 2011. Egyptian activists called for massive protests Tuesday to demand the country's military rulers cede power to a civilian authority...
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News 24
| over 1 year ago
Egyptians are being urged to rally en masse on Tuesday to demand an end to military rule after days of bloody clashes that are threatening to derail next week's first elections since Hosni Mubarak's ouster. A day after the cabinet offered to resign,...
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The Guardian
| over 1 year ago
Egypt again looks set to be our focus- but we won't lose track of the new government expected to be formed in Libya, or the ongoing diplomatic pressure on Syria. Meanwhile, here's a brief round-up: Egypt Activists have called for protesters to...
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United Press International
| over 1 year ago
Thousands of activists demonstrated in Cairo's Tahrir Square Tuesday ahead of a promised mass protest demanding the military hand power to a civilian authority. The demonstrations, part of a bloody uprising spinning into its fourth day, were expected...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| over 1 year ago
Swelling numbers of protesters on the streets of Cairo dismissed a resignation offer Monday from Egypt's Cabinet and said they would be satisfied only if the country's military leaders agree to cede power by next summer. With another major march...
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Ynet News
| over 1 year ago
Recent crackdowns on dissent, including demonstrations in Cairo's Tahrir Square over the past few days, had led to many deaths and injuries, it added.
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Taiwan News
| over 1 year ago
Egyptian activists remained in Tahrir Square in Cairo overnight on Monday for further mass demonstrations on Tuesday, after 33 died and nearly 2,000 injured in three days of violence in the Egyptian capital since Saturday.
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The New Zealand Herald
| over 1 year ago
Egypt's military rulers have failed to live up to their promises and have even committed worse rights abuses than the regime of ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak, Amnesty International said on Tuesday. The London-based watchdog made the criticism in a...
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
Get summaries of the top business news from a global perspective Sample In side streets near the square and the office of the interior ministry, police also beat demonstrators with baton to stop them from demanding the resignation of the interim...
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The independent
| over 1 year ago
Suggested Topics I came here because nothing has been achieved...People have been dragged to military prosecutions, people are still being tortured. There was the news some months ago that the military had carried out virginity tests on women. People...
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Voice of America
| over 1 year ago
Prime Minister Essam Sharaf, which resigned late Sunday, will continue to perform its duties until the military council decides whether to accept the resignations. The White House said Monday it was "deeply concerned" about the violence and urged...
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Leader Post Online
| over 1 year ago
Egypt's entire cabinet offered to resign Monday night following three days of clashes in Cairo between the security forces and protesters seeking the reforms promised when Hosni Mubarak was removed from power. As violence abated later in the day, the...
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Truthdig
| over 1 year ago
Nov 21, 2011 Egyptians staged another mass protest on Monday as the interim civilian government faced another major transition. The day before, the whole cabinet submitted its resignation, but the ruling military council had yet to accept it by...
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Leader Post Online
| over 1 year ago
Egypt's cabinet said on Monday it had resigned as clashes raged in Tahrir Square between police and protesters demanding democratic change in the country's biggest crisis since Hosni Mubarak's ouster. The government of Prime Minister Essam Sharaf has...
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The Hindu
| over 1 year ago
November 22, 2011 Egypt's army-appointed government handed in its resignation on Monday, trying to stem a spiralling crisis as thousands of protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square clashed for the third straight day with security forces in violence that...
