Egypt, battered by political turmoil and an economic crisis, will hold a parliamentary election in April, officials have said.
Islamists fought protesters outside the Egyptian president’s palace, while inside the deputy proposed a way to end a crisis over a draft constitution.
Protesters threw rocks at troops guarding Egypt’s defence ministry as thousands marched in Cairo to denounce violence against demonstrators.
Egypt’s rulers are studying a proposal from their own advisers to bring forward parliamentary elections by two weeks after demands from protesters.
Egyptian activists have called a mass rally in Cairo against the army’s handling of protests that killed 17 people and drew international criticism.
Egypt is holding the latest round of its first democratic parliamentary election in relative calm after five days of violent protests in Cairo.
Egyptian police and soldiers fired guns and teargas to clear protesters from Tahrir Square on the sixth day of clashes that have killed 13 people.
Egypt will hear the results of elections on Friday as protesters gather at a rally to remember 42 people killed in clashes with police.
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/ 27 November 2011
In the run-up to Egypt’s first vote since Hosni Mubarak’s ouster, protesters have gathered again to evict the generals who replaced him.
Tens of thousands of Egyptians demanding an end to military rule converged on Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday in a week of demonstrations.