| Barack Obama has urged President Mubarak to deliver on his promise of reforms after the Egyptian leader defended the role of the security forces in suppressing protests which have left dozens dead. |
| US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner tells Davos delegates it would not be in his country's economic interest to make deep spending cuts. |
| Tunisian PM Mohammed Ghannouchi announces a reshuffle of the interim government in which he stays but many allies of the ousted president leave. |
| Big rises in food prices are likely over the next year, livestock farmers in Suffolk tell the BBC Politics Show in the East. |
| A plane travelling from the UK to Egypt is diverted to Greece after a note containing the word "bomb" was apparently found on board. |
| The National Trust promises to "play its part" in protecting England's ancient woodlands if a planned sell-off of publicly-owned forests goes ahead. |
| Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne says the UK must move from "securing financial stability" to "securing consistent growth". |
| Demonstrations are taking place in London and Manchester against the raising of university tuition fees in England and public spending cuts. |
| A fifth straight day of anti-government protests begins in Egypt as President Hosni Mubarak prepares to appoint a new cabinet. |
| For the last three years, the US government secretly provided aid to the leaders behind this week's social uprising in Egypt aimed to topple the government of President Hosni Mubarak, according to a leaked diplomatic cable. One of the young Egyptian leaders who attended a summit for activists in New York with the help of the US [...] |
| The tear gas being used by police to disperse protesters in Cairo, Egypt was made in America, according to a television news report. The labels on canisters say that the tear gas was produced by Combined Systems International (CSI) of Jamestown, Pa., Egyptian protesters with photographic proof told ABC News Friday. These "Made in the [...] |
| WASHINGTON - Guantanamo detainees have been holding daily peaceful protests against the jail's continued existence, despite pledges from US President Barack Obama to shut it down, a lawyer said Friday. Lawyer Ramzi Kassem said he had learned from a client held at the US naval base that the protests had been going on for the [...] |
| The BBC's world affairs editor John Simpson has told the BBC he is amazed how fast the movement against President Mubarak has grown |
| Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak has named intelligence chief Omar Suleiman as his first ever vice-president as he struggles to regain control of the country. |
| Six months after the floods which devastated Pakistan, Aleem Maqbool revisits the village of Pakha Galwa to find a community still in shock. |
| The BBC's Alex Bellfield, who is on holiday in Sharm el-Sheik, says he returned from dinner this evening to find his hotel barricaded and the mood of the Red Sea resort dramatically changed. |
| Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Egypt on a fifth day of protests, |
| Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Egypt on a fifth day of protests, as the pro-democracy activist Mohamed ElBaradei warned that "the Egyptian people have revolted". |
| David Cameron joins his French and German counterparts to express "deep concern" over violence in Egypt. as Britons are advised to avoid some cities. |
| Tens of thousands of Yemenis demonstrate in the capital, Sanaa, calling on President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down after more than 30 years in power. |
| Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs Group triples the salary of chief executive Lloyd Blankfein to $2m and awards him $12.6m in shares. |
| Chancellor George Osborne says there would be "financial turmoil" if he were forced to abandon his deficit reduction plans. |
| World leaders call on Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak to avoid violence and enact reforms as protests continue into a sixth day. |
| DUBAI - Influential Arab cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi on Saturday urged Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to step down for the good of the country, saying his departure is the only solution to Egypt's crisis. The Sunni Muslim cleric, who holds Egyptian and Qatari nationalities, also encouraged Egyptians to keep up their peaceful protests demanding an end [...] |
| Leading Egyptian dissident Mohamed ElBaradei said on Saturday that the appointment of a vice president and a new prime minister in Egypt was not enough to end a revolt against President Hosni Mubarak's rule. He also urged Mubarak to leave Egypt as soon as possible for the good of the country, in comments to Al [...] |
| DAVOS, Switzerland - Tunisia's fledgling post-revolt government tried to reassure global business executives that its economy is stable Saturday as it received a warm welcome at Davos. The new governor of Tunisia's central bank, Mustapha Kamel Nabli, and the just-appointed Transport Minister Yacine Brahim were given warm applause when introduced at a seminar at the [...] |
| ALGIERS (AFP) - More than 10,000 protesters marched against authorities in Algeria's northeastern city of Bejaia on Saturday, organisers said, in the country's latest rally inspired by neighbouring Tunisia. Demonstrators marched peacefully in the city in Algeria's Berber-speaking Kabylie region, shouting Tunisia-inspired slogans such as: "For a radical change of the regime!," a lawmaker with [...] |
| WASHINGTON - Hundreds of opponents of Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak called at a rally in Washington Saturday for his overthrow and urged Washington to "stand on the right side of history" and cut off aid to his regime. Amid a sea of Egyptian and American flags and protest placards in English and Arabic with slogans [...] |
| GAZA (Reuters) - Gaza Strip residents flocked to petrol stations on Saturday after clashes in neighboring Egypt hampered smugglers ferrying fuel supplies through tunnels that run under the border into the enclave, witnesses said. Merchants and tunnellers said the pace of smuggling of fuel and other materials had dropped in recent days and reached its [...]
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| A Twitter blog entry co-authored by Biz Stone alludes to Egypt and WikiLeaks in a call for freedom of expression.
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| Egyptian demonstrators do not want small reforms, they want Mubarak out and full democracy.
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| As protests continued unabated on Saturday, Egyptians started defending their own turf.
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| The U.S. said Saturday that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak needed to take concrete action to achieve "real reform," and soon after he named his intelligence chief - well respected by American officials - as vice president. Omar Suleiman, whose appointment was announced by state television in Egypt, has traveled to Washington many times and is known well by U.S. officials. The Egyptian government can't reshuffle the deck and then stand pat," Crowley said on his Twitter account. "President Mubarak's words pledging reform must be followed by action." |
| Ägypten: Vor wenigen Stunden ernannte Diktator Husni Mubarak seinen Spionage-Chef Omar Suleiman zum Vize-Präsidenten...Sofort nach der Ernennung Suleimans stiegen die Berichte über Plünderungen und Vandalismus in Ägypten und der Hauptstadt Kairo sprunghaft an. |
| After decades of backing authoritarian regimes in the Mideast and North Africa as bulwarks against Muslim extremism, the U.S. faces an urgent challenge as popular uprisings sweep the region: how to defend U.S. economic and security interests while supporting democratic values... "The future of Egypt will be determined by the Egyptian people," Obama said. "Governments have an obligation to respond to their citizens." |
| Mappus hatte den Ankauf der Aktien in Höhe von fast fünf Milliarden Euro im Alleingang beschlossen, ohne vorher die Zustimmung des Parlaments einzuholen. Ministerpräsident Mappus hatte sein Vorgehen mit dem Verweis auf einen günstigen Aktienkurs und den möglichen Einstieg ausländischer investoren verteidigt. Bei seiner Regierungserklärung hatte er auf ein verfassungsrechtliches Gutachten verwiesen, das er vorab eingeholt habe. Das Gutachten der Kanzlei Gleiss Lutz ist nach Angaben des Magazins "Der Spiegel" aber auf den 15. Dezember 2010 datiert rund zehn Tage nach der Vertragsunterzeichnung. |
Age old tactics coming into play: Al-Jazeera reports that looters on motorcycles have been apprehended by the crowds, turn out to carry government arms, ID's
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| Egypt's astonishing decision to shut down communications with the outside world - blocking the Internet for millions of people - might look like a wild reaction by an under-pressure government. But evidence suggests it's a well-planned and meticulously worked attempt to suppress communication. |
| With the threat of today's protests looming in Egypt, on Thursday Egyptian authorities cut the nation off the internet. No online communication could pass in or out of the country. We investigated whether a similar lockdown could happen in America. |
| RIM faced mixed blessings on Saturday as service came back in Egypt but suffered a temporary North American outage. NBC's Richard
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China blocks all information about egypt. english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2011/01/201112991712140318.html
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