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New day in Egypt: Protesters sack State Security offices

Christian Copts in Egypt Protest Muslim Attacks

Egypt protesters clash with troops

ElBaradei: I'll run for Egypt president

13 killed in sectarian clashes in Egypt  Thirteen people were killed and 90 wounded in clashes between Coptic Christians and Muslims in Cairo, state-run Egyptian television reported Wednesday.

Shots, clashes reported in Cairo

ElBaradei says Egypt must vote 'no'Egyptian presidential contender Mohamed ElBaradei said on Friday that the "miracle" of his country's revolution must be cemented by a rejection of changes being offered by the army in a referendum.

Christians in Egypt stage protest

Egypt crowd attack ElBaradei at voting station A crowd of people blocked Mohamed ElBaradei from entering a polling station in Cairo on Saturday to cast a vote in Egypt's constitutional referendum, shoving him and smashing his car window with rocks as he left.
"We don't want you, we don't want you," a crowd of youths chanted at ElBaradei, who has said he wants to run for president. He was shoved after joining a queue of people seeking to vote. He then went back to his car and stones were hurled

Egypt: Constitution changes pass in referendum

Brother of al-Qaeda's second-in-command arrested again in Egypt Elections commission chief Ahmed Attiya said 41 percent of 45 million eligible voters cast ballots in Saturday's referendum. More than 14 million — 77.2 percent — voted in favor, with around 4 million — 22.8 percent — opposed.

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Gunmen kidnap 3 Egyptian guards near border with Israel Egyptian security officials say gunmen force border guards into vehicles; kidnappings reportedly linked to death of drug smuggler.

Egyptians Order Pizza for Wisconsin Protesters

Egyptian police officers arrested Three police officers in Alexandria, Egypt, have been arrested, and authorities are investigating whether they fired live bullets at demonstrators in late January, a state news website reported Sunday.

Egyptian Workers Strike for Minimum Wage and Independent Unions A TRNN report on the strike of the Mahalla workers 100 kilometers north of Cairo   Thousands of Egyptians poured across the border from Libya into Tunisia on Sunday saying they had fled brutality inflicted by Col Muamar Gaddafi's

ElBaradei won't run for president Egyptian opposition leader only wants 'to be an agent for change.'

U.S. intelligence warned Obama of Egypt instability at end of 2010  CIA official says U.S. government was warned that protesters might threaten Egypt president's grip on power, but didn't foresee what would trigger the unrest.

U.S. discussing immediate Mubarak resignation with Egypt Police opened fire and used tear gas to break up one of the marches, witnesses said, and security officials confirmed that one demonstrator was critically wounded by police fire. Two others were also reported to have been hurt in the eastern town of Mukalla. "Together we fight against poverty, corruption and injustice," the protesters at Sana'a University chanted, between intermittent bursts of music and speeches delivered by opposition politicians from Yemen's Islamist, socialist and Nasserite parties.

Spirit of Egypt protest spreads to Yemen, Algeria and Syria

Egypt Ibrahim Kamel behind attack on Tahrir Square, Cairo

Pro-Mubarak protester started out on other side

Protesters stand up to tanksOpposition activists formed a human chain outside one of the entrances to Tahrir Square on Saturday afternoon to prevent two Egyptian military tanks from crossing through barricades into what has effectively become an anti-Mubarak enclave in the heart of the Egyptian capital. An eyewitness said scuffles broke out after an army general asked demonstrators to take down their makeshift barricades of corrugated steel and debris, which were built up during 48 hours of bloody fighting with regime supporters next to Cairo's landmark Egyptian Museum.

NYT: Detained Journalists' Chilling Account Of Secret Police..

Ministers Under House Arrest.. Exclusive Photos..

GRAPHIC VIDEO: Protester Shot

Thousands Of Protesters In Tahrir Square Led By A Guitarist Break Into Song: Joyful Nighttime Scene!   Vice President Omar Suleiman endorsed a plan with the opposition to set up a committee of judiciary and political figures to study proposed constitutional reforms that would allow more candidates to run for president and impose term limits on the presidency, the state news agency reported. The committee was given until the first week of March to finish the tasks.

France Suspends Arms Sales..

Dick Cheney says Egypt’s Mubarak ‘a good man’

Egyptian Journalist Dies Of Gunshot Wounds Key members resign their posts in Egypt's ruling party. Hosni Mubarak remains head of party and president. 

Muslim Brotherhood: Revolt not 'Islamic'
Egyptian group denies Iranian claim that revolution is an 'Islamic awakening.'

Al Jazeera's bureau chief in Cairo & reporter arrested by security forces

Saboteurs attack Egypt gas pipeline to Jordan, 'Israel cut off'

Egypt Revolution 2011: A Complete Guide To The Unrest

Egyptian Govt Ready To Suspend Martial Law! For The First Time In Over 30 Years!

Egypt protests: Hosni Mubarak's concessions rejected (largest protests yet)

Egypt protests: Muslim Brotherhood's concessions prompt anger Egypt protests have sought Mubarak's removal. The Muslim Brotherhood suddenly dropped that demand in talks Sunday

Blogger's release 'reignites' Egypt Google executive Wael Ghonim speaks after release from Egyptian custody, sparking outpouring of support from protesters.

Egyptian talks near collapse as unions back protests

Egypt's army 'tortures detained protesters' Egyptian military has detained hundreds of protesters and at least some have been tortured, according to testimony gathered by Guardian

Cables: FBI trained Egypt’s state ‘torturers’Egypt's secret police, long accused of torturing suspects and intimidating political opponents of President Hosni Mubarak, received training at the FBI's facility in Quantico, Virginia, even as US diplomats compiled allegations of brutality against them, according to US State Department cables released by WikiLeaks.

STRIKES BREAK OUT ACROSS EGYPT - Thousands of state workers and impoverished Egyptians launched strikes and protests around the country on Wednesday over their economic woes as anti-government activists sought to expand their campaign to oust President Hosni Mubarak despite warnings from the vice president that protests won't be tolerated much longer.

Mubarak slammed U.S. in phone call with Israeli MK before resignation Radical Islam will be result of U.S. push for democracy, Mubarak told Israel's Ben-Eliezer during a phone call on Thursday.

Mubarak Resigns For Real, Leaves Egypt To Army Control--UPDATED

Hosni Mubarak told US not to topple Saddam Hussein

The One Person Who May Know What Egypt's Generals Will Do I'd guess that Suleiman spent 80% of his time devoted to monitoring Egypt's generals and colonels, the officers who could order the tanks to seize the presidential palace. Suleiman no doubt had every one of their phones tapped, knew who was in debt and who wasn't, who left the country and who didn't. He knew exactly who took which bribes and for how much — a weapon for keeping them in line.

Egypt shutters banks after new protests from employees, police

Egypt State TV Switches Sides As Mubarak Falls

The wealthy fear change

Awesome Amateur Footage From Tahrir Square Of The Very Moment The News Broke Of Mubarak's Downfall

Hosni Mubarak used last 18 days in power to secure his fortune  Hosni Mubarak used the 18 days it took for protesters to topple him to shift his vast wealth into untraceable accounts overseas, Western intelligence sources have said.

Egyptian parliament dissolved

Head of Egyptian military is unknown in the West, derided at home (WikiLeaks Cables Reveal)

Baer: Mubarak ousted in a coup Former CIA operative Robert Baer believes military control is in the best short term interest of Egyptians.

Egypt's military rejects swift transfer of power and suspends constitutionEgypt's military dissolved parliament and will run the country for six months, it said in a statement today. It also said it is suspending the constitution. FULL STORY

Tahrir Square protesters defy army to keep Egypt's revolution alive

Egypt's military begins clearing Tahrir Square

UK's Hague: Egypt asks to freeze officials' assets Egypt has asked Britain to freeze the assets of several former Egyptian officials, Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Monday. He also said the Egyptian prime minister had told him opposition figures would be included UK's Hague: Egypt asks to freeze officials' assets

Deadly blast outside Egypt church At least ten people killed in an attack on a Christian church in Alexandria in northern Egypt.

Egyptian Muslims Serve As Human Shields For Coptic Christmas Services Egyptian newspaper al-Ahram reported that prominent Islamic leaders and celebrities had called for a massive show of support by Egypt's Muslims in order to send a message that the majority of the nation would not stand for extremist violence and persecution.

Egypt president's son, family flee to Britain  

Protesters In Egypt Defy Government Ban, Massive Detentions Underway

After Blocking Twitter, Egypt Reportedly Starts Restricting Access To Facebook

Anonymous Asks For DDoS Attack On Key Egyptian Sites

Reports of ‘massacre’ in Suez as protests in Egypt move into third day

Massive Detentions.. AP Journalists Arrested

Hillary Clinton Confronts Egypt: Reform Now, Stop Blocking Social Media

ElBaradei arrives in Egypt
Democracy advocate returns to country to join anti-Mubarak protests, the latest of which has claimed one life.

Egypt shuts down texting Reports claim Egyptian government shut down Short Message Services

Guardian Journalist Arrested and Beaten Alongside Protesters in Egypt Secretly Records Ordeal

Protesters torch Egypt police post

(Thousands of) Cairo protesters try to storm Foreign Ministry (& the state TV building

US-Egypt military chiefs meet in Washington

Mapping Egypt's 'day of wrath'

Egypt's Internet Goes Down

Police Open Fire On Crowd In Cairo

WIDESPREAD LOOTING

Egyptian State TV reports that Omar Suleiman, Head of Intelligence, has been sworn into office as VP

Egypt has arrested over 1000 UN human rights chief calls for lifting of emergency law, free use of social networ

Thirteen people have died and 75 were injured in Suez, Egypt, Nile TV reported,

Mubarak dismisses government Embattled Egyptian leader says he will name a new government on Saturday.

Amid Digital Blackout, Anonymous Mass-Faxes WikiLeaks Cables to Egypt

Egypt's Vice President Targeted For Assassination

Protesters Say Egypt Military Using Force- Egyptian soldiers fired in the air and used batons in the early hours of Saturday to disperse activists demanding the cabinet appointed by Hosni Mubarak be purged by the country's new military leaders, protesters said.

Egyptian Protesters Storm Police Center in Alexandria

Mubarak barred from leaving Egypt Attorney general announces travel ban and freeze on domestic assets in possible prelude to prosecution

Egyptian military jails activist Activist sentenced to five years in prison as rights organisations condemn trials of civilians in military courts.

Egypt's Prime Minister Shafiq steps down

U.S. aircraft to help Egyptians in Libya

Army appoints new Egyptian PM

Al Jazeera English Blacked Out Across Most Of U.S.

LATEST UPDATES: Police Return To Cairo Streets

WATCH: Praying Protesters Hit With Water Cannons..

Hundreds Of Judges Take To Streets.. ElBaradei Addresses Massive Crowd.. LATEST UPDATES

Egypt Muslim Brotherhood says 34 key members escape prison

Egypt shuts down Al Jazeera bureau

Egyptian fighter jets are flying extremely low over Tahrir Square in Cairo

(Egypt) Eyewitnesses say state sponsoring vandalism (Gov "Thugs")

Choice Likely to Please the Military, Not the Crowds Omar Suleiman, President Hosni Mubarak’s choice for vice president of Egypt, is the establishment’s candidate. national train services were cancelled in an apparent bid to stymie protests.

Protesters flood Egypt streets More than a million gather in Cairo's Tahrir Square as massive countrywide protests are held against President Mubarak. Reports say that funerals for victims of recent violence have turned into protests in coastal Alexandria, where several police stations have already been torched and demonstrators continue to defy nationwide curfew.

Neocons: ElBaradei a 'stooge of Iran'
In neocons' sights since declaring 'no evidence' of Iraq WMD.

Mubarak’s new deputy linked to CIA rendition program The man named by President Hosni Mubarak as his first ever deputy, Egyptian spy chief Omar Suleiman, reportedly orchestrated the brutal interrogation of terror suspects abducted by the CIA in a secret program condemned by rights groups.

Last Internet provider in Egypt goes dark

Mubarak unveils 'new government' Torturers, spies among members of Egypt president's new cabinet. Egypt information ministry: Mobile phone networks to be shut down during next few hours, before planned massive marches. 

PROTESTERS IMPOSE DEADLINE ON ARMY..

Egyptian Army: 'We Will Not Use Force'

Al Jazeera: 250,000 Pack Downtown Cairo.. New Government Sworn In, But Mubarak Still In Charge Indeed, the Brotherhood denounced a recent terrorist attack in Egypt as a “cowardly act” and is not on the U.S. State Department’s terrorist list.

Mubarak will neither seek reelection nor resign Addressing his nation and the world, Mosni Mubarak announced that he would not run for president in September

MUBARAK ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT
'Peaceful transition of power' to take place in September

Al Jazeera Source Reveals New Details About Egyptian Government's Efforts At Suppression According to a source at the network who is working in Cairo, the state-run television station has, for the past few nights, been conducting deliberately slanted man-on-the-street interviews regarding media coverage of the massive protests.

Undercover Egyptian police were among looters, hospitals tell Human Rights Watch

Internet restored in EgyptInternet services at least partially restored after five-day blackout.

LIVE: CAIRO, WAR ZONE
Pro-regime forces clash with protesters as chaos spreads

Anderson Cooper 'punched in the head' 10 times by Mubarak thugs

Egyptian 'Ambulance' (?) drives over a protester at high speed (warning, GRAPHIC)Deputy Head Of Egypt's State TV, Shahira Amin, Resigns & Whistleblows To AJ

Eyewitnesses to a Massacre: Reports from Inside Tahrir Square as Pro-Mubarak Forces Open Fire on Protesters

McCain Calls Middle East Pro-Democracy Movement A ‘Virus’ Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has grudgingly supported the anti-government movement in Egypt and called on President Hosni Mubarak to step down yesterday. But appearing on Fox News host Greta Van Susteren’s show last night, McCain suggested he has serious reservations about the larger pro-democracy movement sweeping the Arab World from Tunisia to Jordon. McCain called the populist movement a “virus” that threatens Israel, and warned that we are in “probably the most dangerous period of history” of American involvement in the Middle East:

144 Current Members Of Congress Have Voted In The Past To Cut Aid To Egypt

No plans to halt US military aid to Egypt: Pentagon

Fox News Team Severely Beaten, Hospitalized In Cairo

Shock video shows Egypt police van running over protesters

Video From Tahrir Square Goes Dark.. Journalists Detained, Beaten.. Swedish Reporter Stabbed.. ABC Producer Threatened With Beheading

Hackers Shut Down (Mubarak) Government Sites

ROUNDING UP THE REPORTERS Journalists Beaten, Detained.. Nick Kristof: 'I Worry About What It Is They're Planning That They Don't Want Us To See'

GOV'T OFFICIALS JOIN MASSIVE PROTEST

Anderson Cooper In Hiding In Egypt, Says He's 'Scared'

Muslim Brotherhood says no plans for Egypt presidential bid (or posts in a coalition government)

Egypt's Defence Minister in Tahrir Square Along with Military Commanders

Egyptian Mob Burns Al Jazeera's Cairo Office

Video Report on the Battle for Tahrir: An Inside Look at How Pro-Democracy Activists Reclaimed Tahrir Square After Attacks by Mubarak Forces

WikiLeaks Cables: Egyptian Military Head is 'Old and Resistant to Change'

Around 365 dead in Egypt protests: health ministry

WikiLeaks Brings to Light Suspected Baby Trafficking from Egypt to Canada

Egypt Agrees To Let 2 Iranian Vessels Transit Suez Canal

US gives Egypt $150M to help with transition United States gave Egypt $150 million in economic assistance on Thursday to help the key ally transition towards democracy.

“There is a Pre-History to this Revolt”: As Egypt’s Military Bans Labor Strikes, Mona El-Ghobashy Examines How Egyptian Labor and Social Movements Laid the Foundation for Revolution

Egypt's Race Problem   For too many Egyptians, sub-Saharan Africa is a stereotypical exotic land of thick jungles and masses of poor, starving and black-skinned savages.

Egyptians Can Claim Mubarak’s Stolen Billions

Egypt's New Military Rulers To Ban Union Meetings

Egypt shutters banks after new protests from employees, police

WikiLeaks: US secretly backed Egyptian protest leaders A plan concocted by the dissident groups to oust Mubarak and install a democratic government prior to the September 2011 elections was relayed to the American Embassy in Cairo.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.

Army Shows Signs Of Sympathy For Protesters

62 DEAD IN PAST 2 DAYS

Six UK students arrested during protests

HUMAN CHAIN protects King Tut's coffin.

Looters destroy mummies in Egyptian Museum: official

BBC Reporter Beaten, Electrified By Egyptian Police

Obama Administration Cut Funding To Promote Democracy In Egypt

Dramatic videos: Revolution overtakes Cairo, Alexandria

In Egypt, protesters and soldiers declare: The army and the people are one Military men, hoisted up by the crowd, remove their helmets; demonstrators chant they they will not cease their protest until Mubarak resigns.

As night falls after fifth day of riots, Egyptians seek to provide their own protection Egypt police withdraw from the streets, government buildings set ablaze, escaped convicts run free and rumors rife with reports of at least 60 rape cases during the days unrest

Wikileaks Cables Shed Light on Egypt's New VP

Leaked cables: Torture a 'daily' reality in Egypt's prisons Leaked diplomatic cables released by secrets outlet WikiLeaks show that Egyptian police regularly torture suspects due to "unrelenting pressure" from their superiors to solve criminal investigations.

SHOCK VIDEO: Protester Shot..

NOBEL LAUREATE DETAINED.. Journalists Arrested..

El Baradei under house arrest Egypt places Nobel Peace laureate under house arrest amid massive protests.

U.S. Reporter On The Ground In Egypt Shows Tear Gas Canister Stamped 'Made In The USA' Latest casualty numbers from Egypt: 1,030 injured countrywide. There  reportedly have been 11 civilians killed in Suez and 170 injured. No deaths reported in Cairo yet.

WikiLeaks: Qataris say Egyptians "Blame America" for Troubles