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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.
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.
Clashes erupted between protesters and police in Cairo and two other Egyptian cities, killing two people and wounding hundreds.
Over 50 000 Egyptian protesters have flocked to Cairo’s Tahrir Square to pressure the military government to transfer power to elected civilian rule.
Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak arrived in a hospital bed in a Cairo court on Monday to face charges over the killing of protesters.
Lawyers want Egypt’s government to hand over documents that may reveal who ordered police to fire on protesters during the violent uprising.
Egypt’s ousted president Hosni Mubarak will be moved to a military hospital until he is well enough to face interrogation.
Egypt will hold a parliamentary election in September, its military rulers said on Monday.
Soldiers used force on Saturday to break up a protest demanding more political reform in Egypt, demonstrators said.
Egypt’s new military rulers said on Sunday they had dissolved Parliament and suspended the Constitution and would govern only for six months.
Egyptian soldiers shoved pro-democracy protesters aside to force a path for traffic to start flowing through central Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Sunday.
Egyptian protesters enraged at President Hosni Mubarak’s refusal to step down streamed into Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday.
