The Muslim Brotherhood says it is leading Egypt’s election, which would give the nation’s oldest Islamist group a powerful parliamentary platform.
A US diplomat says officials have met members of the Brotherhood after Washington claimed it would have contact with Egypt’s biggest Islamist group.
Ousted Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak will be held to account by the people he ruled for three decades in a trial starting on Wednesday.
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/ 5 February 2011
Saboteurs blew up a gas pipeline, state television said on Saturday, adding fresh turmoil to Egypt during unprecedented protests.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said on Tuesday he would surrender power in September, angering protesters who want an immediate end to his rule.
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/ 1 February 2011
At least two million people rallied across Egypt on Tuesday clamouring for President Hosni Mubarak to give up power.
Egypt’s president gave the first indication on Saturday he was preparing an eventual handover of power by naming a vice-president.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak clung to power on Saturday as protesters took to the streets again to demand that he quit.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak refused on Saturday to bow to demands that he resign after ordering troops and tanks into cities.
Iran and the representative of six world powers talked by telephone on Monday over Tehran’s disputed nuclear programme.