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Egypt junta names panel to reform constitution
CAIRO – Egypt’s military regime warned on Tuesday that a wave of strikes sweeping the country was “disastrous,” as it gave a panel of civilian experts 10 days to revise the constitution. Against a backdrop of persistent nationwide walk-walkouts and street protests, the junta promised to rapidly restore constitutional rule…
Google ‘very, very proud’ of cyber revolutionary
BARCELONA, Spain – Google is “very, very proud” of cyberactivist Wael Ghonim, a young executive at the company who emerged as a leading voice of the Egyptian uprising, company boss Eric Schmidt said Tuesday. Ghonim, Google?s head of marketing for the Middle East and North Africa, administered a Facebook page…
Obama warns Arab world: Get ahead of reform curve
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama Tuesday warned autocratic US allies they cannot crush the Middle East’s youthful “hunger” for change and offered “moral support” to Iranian protesters defying a crackdown. Obama walked a fine line between offering American support for political uprisings after the Egypt revolt and openly offending states…
Military urges halt to strikes gripping Egypt
CAIRO – Egypt’s military government on Monday urged a halt to widespread strikes inspired by a popular uprising that threatened to paralyse the country following Hosni Mubarak’s overthrow. The orders came after the elderly generals now ruling the country met some of the young Internet activists who triggered the revolt…
Assange: WikiLeaks helped spark Tunisia, Egypt revolutions
Secrets outlet WikiLeaks deserves credit for revolutions sweeping across the Middle East, according to founder Julian Assange. In an interview with the Australian news show Dateline, Assange told SBS’ Mark Davis that the “material that we published through a Lebanese, Al Akhbar, newspaper was significantly influential to what happened in…
Mubarak regime abused 50,000 homeless children in Cairo, reporter says
Thousands of children that live in the streets of Cairo, Egypt, were brutally abused under the regime of President Hosni Mubarak, a Middle East correspondent recently wrote. “They are everywhere in the capital, the 50,000 street children of Cairo, Mubarak’s shameful, unspoken legacy, the detritus of the poor and the…
Egypt’s new military regime to effectively outlaw strikes
CAIRO – Egypt’s new military rulers will issue a warning on Monday against anyone who creates “chaos and disorder,” an army source said. The Higher Military Council will also ban meetings by labor unions or professional syndicates, effectively forbidding strikes, and tell all Egyptians to get back to work after…
White House reiterates demand that Iran allow protests
A senior White House official on Saturday criticized Iran’s refusal to let opponents of the regime hold a rally in support of Arab uprisings. “By announcing that they will not allow opposition protests, the Iranian government has declared illegal for Iranians what it claimed was noble for Egyptians,” National Security…
Swiss freeze possible Mubarak assets
ZURICH – Switzerland has frozen assets possibly belonging to Hosni Mubarak, who stepped down as president of Egypt Friday after 30 years of rule, a spokesman for the foreign ministry said. “I can confirm that Switzerland has frozen possible assets of the former Egyptian president with immediate effect,” spokesman Lars…
Mubarak says he will not resign until September
After a day of rumors fed by major news networks citing officials from the US and Cairo claiming Hosni Mubarak would resign, Egypt’s president addressed the nation and reiterated his intent to hold the post until September. “Your demands are lawful and legitimate,” he said to protesters in Tahrir Square,…
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