Cairo was the scene of violent chaos on Friday, when tens of thousands of anti-government protesters stoned and confronted police.
Tens of thousands of Egyptians took to the streets demanding an end to President Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule.
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/ 27 January 2011
Activists trying to oust Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak played cat-and-mouse with police on the streets into the early hours of Thursday.
Calm returned to the streets of Cairo at daybreak on Wednesday after a night and a day of unprecedented demonstrations.
Police fired teargas and water cannon to disperse Egyptian protesters in Cairo in the early hours of Wednesday after a day of unprecedented protests.
Thousands of Egyptians demanded an end to President Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule and clashed with police on Tuesday.
Egypt’s largest opposition movement demanded on Wednesday that President Hosni Mubarak dissolve the newly elected Parliament and hold new elections.
A car bombing outside a church killed 21 people in Egypt’s northern city of Alexandria as worshippers gathered to mark the New Year.
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/ 7 December 2010
Egypt President Hosni Mubarak’s ruling party has swept to a huge win in a parliamentary election that the opposition denounced as rigged.
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/ 30 November 2010
Egypt on Tuesday awaited the results of a parliamentary election that are set to deliver sweeping gains for President Hosni Mubarak’s ruling party.
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/ 25 November 2010
Millions of Egyptians are due to vote on Sunday for their next Parliament.
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/ 22 November 2010
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said told his Likud party there was no deal to reach a border agreement within the new 90-day freeze.
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/ 19 October 2010
Egyptian and South African leaders met in Cairo on Tuesday for talks aimed at strengthening economic ties between the two African powerhouses.
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/ 17 September 2010
There are those who lead and those who follow, and the <i>Al-Ahram</i> newspaper clearly feels that President Hosni Mubarak fits in to the former.
Barack Obama, looking to kickstart the stalled Middle East peace process, will hold talks on Tuesday with Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak.
President Barack Obama sought a ”new beginning” between the United States and the Muslim world on Thursday.
Amending a proposed Arab peace initiative to win Israeli support for the plan is not a viable option, said Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak.
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/ 21 February 2009
Egypt will have a heavy heart when they resume dealings with Benjamin Netanyahu, whose spell as Israeli prime minister was frustrating.
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/ 17 February 2009
The fate of an Israeli soldier should not be linked to talks on a long-term truce with Hamas in Gaza, president Hosni Mubarak said on Tuesday.
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/ 11 February 2009
An Islamist opposition activist was sentenced to two years in jail on Wednesday by a military court for crossing illegally into the Gaza Strip.
Israel and Hamas studied an Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday that won immediate backing from the US and Europe.
A Hamas delegation was in Cairo on Tuesday to discuss an Egyptian-proposed ceasefire with Israel.
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/ 29 November 2008
Egypt is willing to intervene militarily against piracy in the Gulf of Aden and off the Somali coast, alone or as part of an international force.
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/ 3 November 2008
Egypt’s ruling party wrapped up its conference on Monday with President Hosni Mubarak’s son avoiding the question of who will succeed his father.
Mbeki’s widely criticised quiet diplomacy in Zimbabwe has taken almost a decade to pave the way for negotiations for democratic rule in that country.
Egypt and South Africa would continue to work together to build the framework for economic and political cooperation.
Israel kept three border crossings with the Gaza Strip closed on Wednesday following rocket attacks that breached a truce with Hamas rulers.
Gaza residents savoured a weekend of calm after months of bloodshed in the Palestinian enclave as a tenuous truce with Israel entered its second day.
The United States agreed on Friday to help Saudi Arabia protect its oil industry from terrorist attack, while offering to back conservative Arab countries resisting Iranian influence spreading across the Middle East — but King Abdullah was not persuaded to boost Saudi oil production to ease the effect of the -a-barrel price on the US.
Social tensions in Egypt over the past year have eroded overwhelming expectations that Gamal Mubarak will succeed his father President Hosni Mubarak at the helm of the most populous Arab country. An unprecedented wave of labour strikes and public anger over high prices and poor wages, may eventually drive the main pillars of the ruling elite to look into other scenarios.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, now in his 27th year as leader of the Arab world’s most populous nation, turns 80 on Sunday with no clear successor in sight. One of the oldest executive heads of state in the world, Mubarak leads a country where more than 60% of the population have never known any other president.
It is an overcast morning in the Bulaq neighbourhood of Cairo, three hours after the muezzin’s call to prayers. The streets are choked with honking cars, while goats — and a few ragged-looking people — pick at piles of stinking rubbish overflowing from metal wheelie bins.