The Egyptian army has backed President Hosni Mubarak’s refusal to step down. But protesters in the capital and elsewhere flooded the streets in renewed anger. Hundreds of thousands of anti-government demonstrators have spread out across Cairo and other Egyptian cities, after President Hosni Mubarak refused their demand to resign immediately. Crowds massed after Friday prayers [...]
February 11, 2011 | Filed under Video News,World | Read More
Saying tomorrow’s economy can’t thrive on yesterday’s infrastructure, President Barack Obama on Thursday promoted his five-year plan to lure new industries and jobs to the U.S. by expanding high-speed wireless to 98 % of the country. “the snowy Upper Peninsula” as President Barack Obama described it today – can build a world class infrastructure to [...]
Wael Ghonim, the Egyptian Google executive and internet activist who was released on Monday after being arrested and held for 12 days, gave a short interview to Egypt’s On TV. Tens of thousands of Egyptian protesters packed into Tahrir Square today with renewed purpose after Wael Ghonim, a young Google executive who helped organize the [...]
Sunday marks the 13th day of mass protest in Egypt calling for President Hosni Mubarak to go. Meanwhile, Egypt’s largest opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, said it would begin talks with the government to try and end the political crisis. As the Egyptian government tries to get the country back to work, security has been [...]
The U.S. threw its weight behind nascent reforms led by Egypt’s new vice president as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday that international support was crucial to prevent extremists from hijacking the political transition. The dramatic events in Egypt and the wider Middle East have inevitably overshadowed the meeting of policy-makers gathered at [...]
An explosion went off at a gas terminal in Egypt’s northern Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, causing a fire along a pipeline that transports gas to Israel, Syria and Jordan. No injuries were reported, but officials say they suspect sabotage. Egypt halted natural-gas exports through a pipeline feeding Israel and Jordan today after a fire at [...]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday jointly announced a French-German plan to save the eurozone. The plan is discussed by EU leaders over lunch at the EU summit in Brussels, where the situation in Egypt and a common EU energy proposal also are on the agenda. Merkel and Sarkozy said [...]
The Egyptian military guarded thousands of pro-democracy protesters pouring into Cairo’s main square on Friday. Meanwhile the White House is in talks with Egyptian officials about a possible transition government. Thousands of people have converged on Cairo’s Tahrir Square under heavy military watch for a rally billed as the day of departure — the deadline [...]
February 4, 2011 | Filed under Video News,World | Read More
Seven people are reported killed and more than 600 people injured in Egypt’s capital Cairo in violent clashes in Tahrir square. Egypt’s newly appointed Prime Minister has apologized for yesterday’s violence on anti-Mubarak protestors, promised a probe. Egyptian security forces are arresting demonstrators as clashes continue between supporters of President Hosni Mubarak and his opponents [...]
Protesters in Cairo continue to speak out against Hosni Mubarak’s government, many of them camping out in Cairo’s central Tahrir Square for round-the-clock demonstrations against the dictatorship. The demonstrators rejected Mubarak’s speech on Tuesday and said they want freedom, justice and a change to the regime that has brought them nothing for three decades. Egypt’s [...]