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Yedioth Ahronoth
| over 1 year ago
Breaking News Egypt's military leadership called for a swift move to a presidential election on Monday and security forces sealed off the Interior Ministry in Cairo from stone-throwing protesters clashing with riot police for a fifth day. In a sign...
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News 24
| over 1 year ago
Protesters and police clashed again overnight outside Cairo's security headquarters in the wake of deadly football violence and amid calls by activists for civil disobedience in Egypt. Police fired birdshot at demonstrators in roads leading to the...
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Truthdig
| over 1 year ago
Feb 5, 2012 We asked Lauren Unger-Geoffroy, an international artist who lives in Cairo, to share her perspective of life in Egypt after the revolution. In this entry, amid breaking news and ongoing violence, she writes about Egypt's stunned reaction...
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Al Jazeera English
| over 1 year ago
35 Clashes have continued in Egypt with police firing tear gas at demonstrators hurling rocks and broken tiles, as the protesters demanded swift presidential election and an early handover of power by the ruling military.
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The New Zealand Herald
| over 1 year ago
A number of protesters formed a human-chain between the security forces and protesters, defusing clashes late in the afternoon; while authorities erected concrete barriers, cutting protesters off from the reviled Ministry of Interior, which Egyptians...
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The Daily Star
| over 1 year ago
An Egyptian urges a protester to stop throwing stones toward security forces during clashes near the Interior Ministry in Cairo. Protesters and police engaged in sporadic clashes Sunday at security headquarters in Cairo as violence raged into a...
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Taiwan News
| over 1 year ago
President Sepp Blatter has criticized the dismissal of Egypt's football federation leaders, calling the move "direct interference" by the Cairo government in football matters...Blatter spoke Sunday in the Paraguay capital, where he attended a special...
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The New York Times
| over 1 year ago
After the fiercest battles in three days of street fighting with protesters, Egypt 's military-led government appeared by daybreak Sunday to have ended, at least for now, a siege of its interior ministry. Security forces erected two new walls of...
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CNN Blog
| over 1 year ago
Demonstrators clashed with police outside the interior ministry in Cairo on Sunday, the same day news emerged that a prominent protester suffered a skull fracture while trying to negotiate an end to the unrest. Protests have rocked Egypt's capital...
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Israel National News
| over 1 year ago
Riots broke out in several parts of Cairo and other cities over the weekend, and a government building was burned down. Egyptians are angry over the killing of 74 people at a soccer game in Port Sa'id last week. A spokesperson for the Council said...
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Israel National News
| over 1 year ago
The tax authority building is next to the Interior Ministry building. Egyptian television broadcast pictures of the building going up in flames...At least a dozen people have been killed in Egypt in the past three days, in protests of over the deaths...
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NOW Lebanon
| over 1 year ago
Protesters and riot police fought pitched battles in Cairo on Sunday as clashes sparked by the perceived failure of Egypt's military rulers to prevent deadly football-linked violence raged into a fourth day. Hundreds of riot police blocked off roads...
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The Daily Telegraph
| over 1 year ago
Thick clouds of smoke hung over the roads leading up to the interior ministry, where protesters hurled stones at officers as ambulances shuttled the wounded out of the area. A number of protesters tried to intervene and stood between their comrades...
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The Herald
| over 1 year ago
Egyptian security forces on Saturday fired tear gas from armored trucks at protesters demanding an end to military rule, as anger over a deadly soccer riot fueled a third day of clashes that have killed at least 12 people. The violence followed a...
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United Press International
| over 1 year ago
The death toll in police-protester clashes following this week's deadly soccer stadium stampede rose to 12, an Egyptian health official said Saturday. Deputy Health Minister Hesham Shiha said in a statement the ministry received reports Saturday of...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| over 1 year ago
Seven deaths took place near the Interior Ministry in central Cairo where sporadic clashes continued for the third consecutive day, state TV reported on Saturday, quoting Hesham Sheha, the undersecretary for the Health Ministry. Sheha said 275 people...
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San Diego Union-Tribune
| over 1 year ago
Egyptian fans rush into the field following Al-Ahly club soccer match against Al-Masry club at the soccer stadium in Port Said, Egypt Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. Dozens of Egyptians were killed Wednesday in violence following a soccer match in Port Said,...
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Leader Post Online
| over 1 year ago
Sepp Blatter has slammed "political interference" in Egyptian football, in the wake of the death of 74 fans in riots following a midweek domestic match. "In Egypt, football has been victim of political interference," he said late Friday at the...
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The Daily Star
| over 1 year ago
Police fired tear gas and birdshot at protesters on Saturday in the third day of deadly clashes in Cairo, as anger at the ruling military boiled over after 74 people died in football-related violence. The police were responding as dozens of...
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Miami Herald
| over 1 year ago
Bob Bradley was a history major at Princeton and intrigued by international relations, so part of the appeal of taking over as head coach of the Egyptian national soccer team last September was a chance to live in Cairo and experience another culture.
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KSAZ
| over 1 year ago
Four people were killed and more than 1,000 injured during fresh clashes on the streets of Egypt as public anger mounted at the ruling military Friday over the deaths of dozens of soccer fans at a recent game. Two demonstrators were killed in the...
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The Guardian
| over 1 year ago
A wounded man is carried away in Cairo during protests after Egypt's football deaths. Photograph: Suhaib Salem/Reuters Hundreds of supporters of the Cairo football club, which lost 74 fans in Wednesday's riot, have rallied outside the club's premises...
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
Articles On Friday, demonstrations outside of the Interior Ministry in Cairo, the headquarters of state security operations, turned violent; protestors, armed with stones, were met by riot police who fired tear gas and buckshot into the crowd. At...
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Voice of America
| over 1 year ago
Violence spreading across Egypt's cities Friday killed at least three people in growing fallout from a deadly soccer riot. Anger over the inability of security forces to prevent Wednesday's soccer stampede that left 74 dead in Port Said has evolved...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
Most of those killed in the Port Said football stadium on Wednesday night were crushed in a stampede and the government declared three days of mourning, but protesters hold the military-led authorities responsible. It was country's deadliest incident...
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NOW Lebanon
| over 1 year ago
The two were rushed to hospital unconscious after joining protests near the Interior Ministry where riot police fired tear gas and demonstrators hurled back rocks...Thick tear gas blanketed the road leading to the Interior Ministry, where a makeshift...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| over 1 year ago
Marchers descended on parliament from mosques across Cairo to demand that the generals cede power immediately after a night of demonstrations in major cities across Egypt left at least two people dead. In a sign of the growing threat the political...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| over 1 year ago
Police in Cairo set off salvos of tear gas and fired birdshot at protesters angry over a deadly soccer riot as fresh clashes on Egyptian streets killed three people on Friday, according to a volunteer doctor and health officials. One man died just...
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The Guardian
| over 1 year ago
Cairo protests after Egyptian football deaths in pictures Crowds rallied outside Cairo's interior ministry building as anger spread over the deaths of 74 people in a riot in Port Said. Demonstrators threw rocks, and police responded with teargas,...
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CNN Blog
| over 1 year ago
Thousands gathered around Tahrir Square in Cairo Friday morning as protests against authorities continued following a deadly soccer riot that killed dozens. Days after the soccer match melee that left 79 dead, Egyptians decried what they called...
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Khaleej Times
| over 1 year ago
Egypt clashes over deadly soccer riot (AP) 3 February 2012 A volunteer doctor says police and protesters angry over a deadly soccer riot have clashed for the second day in Egypt, and that one man died in the latest violence. A volunteer doctor says...
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BBC
| over 1 year ago
Protesters have gathered on the streets of Egypt's capital Cairo, amid calls for more rallies over the deaths of 74 fans at a football match on Wednesday. The authorities have sealed off streets in the capital, and widespread protests are expected...
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The Guardian
| over 1 year ago
A third person has been killed in protests in Egypt in the aftermath of the Port Said football disaster, Reuters reports. One person died in Cairo from a shotgun pellet wound and two were killed in the city of Suez as police used live rounds to hold...
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The Daily Star
| over 1 year ago
Egyptian activists called for mass protests in Cairo on Friday to demand the ouster of the ruling military council, target of raging anger over the deaths of 74 people in football-related violence. Demonstrators were to stage marches from mosques...
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United Press International
| over 1 year ago
Angry soccer fans and tear gas-firing Cairo police fought in anti-junta violence early Friday before planned dawn prayers for 74 people killed in a soccer riot. The prayers were to be followed by more protests and Jumu'ah noontime prayers -- followed...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| over 1 year ago
The police in several Egyptian cities on Thursday night battled with thousands of die-hard soccer fans angry at the military-led government's failure to prevent dozens of deaths at a soccer riot in Port Said the previous night. In Suez, two...
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Zee News
| over 1 year ago
The unprecedented violence occurred last evening following a soccer match between top-tier clubs al-Masry and al-Ahly as fans invaded the ground after Port Said club al- Masry won 3-1. The fans chased the players and fans of the al-Ahly club and...
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Taiwan News
| over 1 year ago
A health official says two protesters have been killed by police gunfire in clashes with police in Suez, Egypt. They were the first to die in demonstrations that followed a riot after a soccer game in Port Said, Egypt, that left 74 dead.
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Leader Post Online
| over 1 year ago
Protesters laid siege to Egypt's Interior Ministry on Friday, extending a rally against the military-led government into a second day in a show of anger triggered by the deaths of 74 people in the country's worst ever soccer disaster. Several...
