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Newyork Times
| over 1 year ago
The prime minister named by Egypt 's military rulers complained in a news conference on Thursday that other civilian political leaders shun him as though he were the agent of a foreign occupation. Some of the senior colleagues in politics whom I...
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NOW Lebanon
| over 1 year ago
The UN women's agency on Thursday expressed "great concern" over the recent attacks on women protesters in Egypt and called on military to respect their civil rights. "Women, along with men and children, have been victims of the excessive use of...
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The New York Times
| over 1 year ago
The prime minister named by Egypt 's military rulers complained in a news conference on Thursday that other civilian political leaders shun him as though he were the agent of a foreign occupation. Some of the senior colleagues in politics whom I...
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Israel National News
| over 1 year ago
Voter turnout over the last two days was relatively low when compared to earlier balloting. Projected results are expected before midnight. They are expected to show a Muslim Brotherhood majority in Egypt's lower house. The advisory council appointed...
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The Hindu
| over 1 year ago
A protester holds a copy of a newspaper with the picture of a woman being beaten by soldiers, as hundreds of women march through Cairo on Tuesday. The image of a woman being beaten up and stripped by soldiers has generated an unprecedented response,...
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The Hindu
| over 1 year ago
December 23, 2011 AP An Egyptian woman casts her vote at a polling centre during the second day of the election runoffs for Egypt's parliament, in Giza on Decembere 22, 2011. With the fledgling democracy expanding the space for political assertion,...
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Washington Post
| over 1 year ago
Egypt's military-appointed prime minister on Thursday called for national dialogue to resolve the country's political crisis and pleaded for a two-month calm to restore security after weeks of protests and bloodshed. Kamal el-Ganzouri also told a...
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Washington Post
| over 1 year ago
Egypt's caretaker prime minister appealed Thursday for a two-month period of calm to try and end the nation's political crisis and restore security. Kamal el-Ganzouri, 78, did not address video evidence and witness accounts showing that military...
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Zee News
| over 1 year ago
seeks talk to resolve political crisis Cairo: After weeks of anti-regime protests and violent clashes, Egyptian Premier Kamal Ganzoury on Thursday sought a national dialogue to resolve the political crisis and also warned that the country's economy...
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The Courier-Mail
| over 1 year ago
has called on Egyptians to set aside their political differences for the sake of the economy, warning that the country's finances are deteriorating alarmingly. Military-appointed prime minister Kamal al-Ganzouri told a news conference today that much...
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United Press International
| over 1 year ago
Protesting the treatment of women at the hands of the security forces, Egyptians are planning a 1 million person march at Cairo's Tahrir Square. The National Association for Change has called on all Egyptians to protest Friday in Cairo and elsewhere...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
Muslim Brotherhood opposes protesters' desire for swifter army handover of power before July; PM says street violence has cost economy billions of dollars. The Muslim Brotherhood, whose party is leading Egypt's staggered parliamentary election, came...
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The independent
| over 1 year ago
Yesterday, Moody's, the credit rating agency, threatened the UK with a downgrade of its AAA rating. ... Median households are marginally worse off this year than they were in 2005, but the top 55 per cent... Suggested Topics Egypt's military-...
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Canada.com
| over 1 year ago
Egypt is holding the latest round of its first democratic parliamentary election on Thursday in relative calm after five days of protests in Cairo that prompted a brutal response from security forces. The latest confrontations, in which 15 people...
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Kuwait Times
| over 1 year ago
Feeling angry and disenfranchised, secularist and largely unorganised protesters have skirmished for a week in Cairo's central Tahrir Square with soldiers who have beaten men and women to the ground and fired shots to disperse crowds. The flare-up,...
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Taiwan News
| over 1 year ago
Thousands of Egyptian women joined protests on the streets of central Cairo following international condemnation of violence between security forces and demonstrators that left at least 14 dead. Crowds rallied in and around Tahrir Square late Tuesday...
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War In Context
| over 1 year ago
Some 4000 took to the streets in a march organized by the Mohamed ElBaradei Campaign and the April 6 Youth Movement...Egypt and their right to protest and of positive participation in political life on the path of democratic change Egypt is currently...
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BBC
| over 1 year ago
The country is haemorrhaging about $1bn (£638m) a month in foreign currency reserves, and the Egyptian pound has fallen to new lows. It is not just that tourists are staying away, in what should be peak season. The political gridlock is preventing...
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CNN
| over 1 year ago
Security forces wielding batons, firearms and tear gas attacked defiant protesters Tuesday on the fifth consecutive day of clashes in Cairo's Tahrir Square, witnesses told CNN. Sherif Barakat, a businessman, heard machine gun fire early in the...
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Epoch Times
| over 1 year ago
Doctors at the last remaining field hospital in Tahrir told the Al-Ahram publication they saw security forces shooting and killing protesters. Not all the deaths reported were in the square but also in other locations in Cairo. The bullets had...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| over 1 year ago
Women and men marched to Tahrir Square, the epicentre of the democratic uprising that overthrew president Hosni Mubarak, to denounce the army's deadly attacks on protesters and recent incidents where female protesters were brutally attacked. The...
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War In Context
| over 1 year ago
Mass march by Cairo women in protest over soldiers' abuse by News Source on December 20, 2011 The New York Times reports : Thousands of women massed in Tahrir Square here on Tuesday afternoon and marched to a journalists' syndicate and back in a...
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NOW Lebanon
| over 1 year ago
Egypt's military on Tuesday "strongly regretted" what it called "transgressions" against protesters, in a statement addressed to women after soldiers beat and stripped a female demonstrator. The military would take legal action against those...
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Moreover Silicon Valley
| over 1 year ago
The Washington Post's Leila Fadel reported Tuesday that at least nine of the dead had been shot. The military government has sharply refused taking any blame for the unrest, Fadel reported from Cairo on Monday: Egypt's military chiefs sought to...
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Fort Lee Suburbanite
| over 1 year ago
Egypt's ruling generals are coming under mounting criticism at home and abroad for the military's use of excessive force against unarmed protesters, including women, as they try to crush the pro-democracy movement calling for their ouster. At least...
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CNN
| over 1 year ago
Egypt's capital remained engulfed in tension on Tuesday, as security forces and protesters clashed and demonstrators at a "Million Women" march railed against the regime and assaults on citizens. Security forces wielding batons, firearms and tear gas...
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Washington Post
| over 1 year ago
An Egyptian woman walks trough an alley in the al-Azhar quarter carrying a tray of fresh bread, in Cairo, Dec...The housewives and breadwinners stepping out of a Cairo supermarket with bags of groceries agreed on one thing...One after another, her...
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BBC
| over 1 year ago
Fifth day of clashes in Tahrir Square Protesters in Tahrir Square accuse the ruling generals of delaying the transfer to civilian rule Egyptian security forces have fired tear gas and charged at hundreds of protesters in the capital, Cairo, in...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
Troops, police try to drive protesters from Tahrir Square; US sec. of state condemns "shocking" attacks on women. Egyptian police and soldiers firing guns and teargas fought to clear protesters from Cairo's Tahrir Square on Tuesday, the fifth day of...
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AKI
| over 1 year ago
Three people were killed and 57 injured in Cairo early Tuesday when security forces fired weapons and used batons and tear gas during a charge on protesters in Tahrir Square, according to Egyptian newspaper al-Wafd. Demonstrators accuse soldiers and...
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Voice of America
| over 1 year ago
Egyptian security forces have clashed with protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square in a continued effort to disperse those calling for the ruling military council to step down. Police and soldiers raided the square early Tuesday trying to clear the area...
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NY Daily News
| over 1 year ago
Egyptian troops and riot police raided Cairo's Tahrir Square early on Tuesday in their latest attempt to evict protesters who want the ruling military to immediately step down, according to a field hospital doctor. Ahmed Saad said a 15-year-old...
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The Daily Star
| over 1 year ago
A field hospital doctor says Egyptian troops and riot police have raided Cairo's Tahrir Square in their latest attempt to evict protesters who want the ruling military to immediately step down. Ahmed Saad says a 15-year-old protester was in critical...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
Armed security forces fire weapons, use batons, teargas in latest security operation; death toll rises to 13. Egyptian police and soldiers fired weapons and used batons and teargas for a fifth day on Tuesday in the latest security operation to clear...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| over 1 year ago
Egypt's military chiefs sought on Monday to portray the deadly protests that have roiled the country in recent days as the work of thugs and hooligans, going as far as showing reporters edited video of men and women lobbing rocks and firebombs at...
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The Daily Star
| over 1 year ago
Egyptian security forces fought opponents of army rule in Cairo for a fourth day Monday and the United States, worried by the violence, urged the generals to respect human rights. Medical sources said the death toll had risen to 13 since Friday...
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United Press International
| over 1 year ago
Unspeakable violence committed by Egyptian police against unarmed protesters, especially women, has no legal justification, the U.N. human rights chief said. Clashes in Egypt have left at least 11 people dead and more than 500 injured since Friday.
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The Guardian
| over 1 year ago
Amro Hassan in Cairo Egyptian protesters throw stones at soldiers during violent clashes in Cairo. Photograph: Mohamed Omar/EPA There was a fourth day of clashes in central Cairo today as Egypt 's military leaders struggled to contain a new challenge...
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AP Online
| over 1 year ago
Egypt's ruling military sought to discredit the pro-democracy movement Monday, portraying a detained protester as a woman of questionable morals, accusing a prominent publisher of incitement and alleging the media is trying to sabotage the country.
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Arab News
| over 1 year ago
Egyptian security forces fought opponents of army rule in Cairo for a fourth day on Monday and the United States, worried by the violence, urged the generals to respect human rights. Medical sources said the death toll had risen to 13 since Friday...
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Russia Today
| over 1 year ago
Another round of violence has hit Cairo on Monday as hundreds of police in riot gear swept through Tahrir Square and opened fire on protesters, killing at least three. The UN has condemned Monday's deadly raid with the UN's human rights chief...
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Washington Post
| over 1 year ago
Egypt's ruling military questioned the morals of a female detainee, accused a prominent publisher of incitement and bashed the media for allegedly working to destabilize the country in a new effort Monday to crush the pro-democracy movement trying to...
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Washington Post
| over 1 year ago
Egypt's ruling military council on Monday glossed over the brute force used against protesters in clashes since Friday, publicly describing the demonstrators as paid thugs and vandals. At least 11 people have been killed and more than 400 wounded...
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Africa Headlines
| over 1 year ago
Monday in State Information Service premises (SIS) on the ongoing clashes around the cabinet building. Kobry Al Qubbah where a number of the persons injured during the cabinet incidents are being treated.
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NOW Lebanon
| over 1 year ago
Egypt's ruling military council, which took power when Hosni Mubarak was ousted in February, said on Monday it had uncovered a plot to burn down parliament. General Adel Emara, a member of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, interrupted a live...
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Al Jazeera
| over 1 year ago
12 Egyptian security forces fought opponents of army rule in Cairo for a fourth day, drawing condemnation from both the United Nations and the United States, worried by the violence, urged the generals to respect human rights.
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Mail Online UK
| over 1 year ago
FCO warns travellers of further clashes expected in Egypt Last updated at 11:07 AM on 19th December 2011 Despite a fresh wave of violence in Cairo over the weekend, which left 10 protesters dead and hundreds injured, the Foreign and Commonwealth...
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CNN Blog
| over 1 year ago
Police and military troops clashed Monday with protesters in Egypt's Tahrir Square, the symbolic center of the uprising that brought down President Hosni Mubarak earlier this year. At least two protesters were killed, according to field doctor Ahmed...
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BBC
| over 1 year ago
There has been further violence in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, where clashes between security forces and protesters since Friday have left 10 people dead. Soldiers and police moved into Tahrir Square before dawn, using batons and tear gas to drive...
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USA Today
| over 1 year ago
Egypt's Health Ministry says at least three more protesters have been killed in clashes with army soldiers in central Cairo, bringing the four-day death toll to at least 14. A doctor at a field hospital in Cairo's Tahrir Square puts the toll from...
