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Egyptian tour guides gathered recently near the historical Sphinx and the Pyramids appealed to tourists to return to the country following the fall of Hosni Mubarak's regime.
United States President Barack Obama has asked Egypt to explain in "clear" and "unambiguous" language the "step by step" process that will lead to democracy in the country, after its President Hosni Mubarak on Friday refused to step down from power.
Senior analyst B Raman calls the post-Mubarak situation in Egypt an uncertain transition.
Egypt's government and opposition have agreed to set up a committee to study constitutional reform, state television said on Sunday evening, after days of protests calling for President Hosni Mubarak to quit. This is looked at as the first significant step towards a peaceful political transition in the nation.
A group of young Egyptians recently took to the streets of Cairo on a clean up mission after its historical Tahrir Sqaure witnessed 18 days of continuous protests demanding ouster of President Hosni Mubarak.
The Supreme Military Council, that took over the reins of the administration after Hosni Mubarak bowed out under public pressure ending his 30-year reign, said it would stay in power for six months or until the elections are held to determine the next government of Egypt.
Anti-government unrest appeared to be spreading in Egypt as an obdurate President Hosni Mubarak continued to cling to power even after days of a relentless 'Go Mubarak' campaign and the protesters attempted to storm the country's Parliament on Wednesday in their latest bid to oust a hated regime.
The United States on Sunday stepped up efforts for a speedy transition of power in Egypt, where embattled President Hosni Mubarak's powerful son Gamal and top leaders of ruling party quit their posts, amid reports that key opposition group Muslim Brotherhood has entered talks with officials on ending the 13-day revolt against the regime.
A dramatic and potentially deadly situation unfolded in which petrol bombs or Molotov cocktails were hurled by anti-Mubarak supporters from the edge of Tahrir Square in central Cairo, the epicentre of the nine-day protests against the President's 30-year-old rule.
As the people of Egypt are finding out, the Net is about freedom -- to share creative ideas, to express dissent and oppose repression, says Rajni Bakshi.
President Hosni Mubarak is now "de jure head of the state" as he has transferred all his powers to his Vice President Omar Suleiman who is now the "de facto head of state", Egyptian ambassador to the United States has said.
Thousands of prisoners escaped from jails across Egypt as anti-regime riots entered the sixth day on Sunday, with looters rampaging through malls and luxury shops and a number of army-men doffing uniforms to join the unprecedented protests. Embattled President Hosni Mubarak, 82, clung to power despite mounting pressure to quit as the situation in the world's most populous Arab nation deteriorated.
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Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi issued a declaration granting himself sweeping powers and ordering retrials of officials involved in the killing of protesters during the 2011 mass uprising against Hosni Mubarak regime.
At least 35 people have been killed in a fresh wave of clashes in Egypt's iconic Tahrir Square that has cast a shadow on the November 28 elections, the first since Hosni Mubarak's downfall.
Cairo's Tahrir Square, which has become synonymous with protests, has witnessed passionate demonstrations and some fireworks, literally, in the last few days.
Egypt's moderate Islamist force Muslim Brotherhood claimed victory in the presidential poll on Monday and promised to build a modern democratic state, but the landmark election stood overshadowed by uncertainty as the ruling military took over legislative powers.
Some 400 people arrived from the direction of Tahrir Square shouting slogans against remnants of the former regime on Monday night. They broke into the villa in Dokki neighbourhood that houses Shafiq's offices, stole computers and documents and threw some into the street, an eyewitness said.
The Egyptian army secretly arrested thousands of anti-government protestors over the past two weeks and tortured some of them, The Guardian reported. Hossam Bahgat, director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights in Cairo, told the UK daily that hundreds, and possibly thousands, of ordinary people had "disappeared" into military custody across the country for no more than carrying a political flyer, attending the demonstrations or even the way they look.
Facing mounting pressure to quit, embattled President Hosni Mubarak offered to open talks with opposition groups, which have called for a nation-wide general strike demanding his ouster. As a coalition of opposition groups called on the people to hit the streets on Tuesday in a show of strength demanding Mubarak's resignation, the army came out with a statement on national TV, saying it will not use force against protesters.
Former premier Kamal Ganzouri has been appointed Egypt's new prime minister but protesters vowed to step up pressure on the country's military rulers and called for renewed agitation to demand the army quit power.
United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday arrived in Cairo to engage with the new Egyptian leadership on hosts of issues including Egypt's transition to democracy and bilateral ties.
Srikanth Kondapalli says that while China had scuttled popular outpouring a number of times before, a prairie fire is raging across the country.
Egypt's new military rulers buckled under continued public pressure and removed Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq, handpicked by ousted President Hosni Mubarak, replacing him with a new nominee. Former Transport Minister Essam Sharaf will be the new prime minster, a brief military statement said. The sacking of Shafiq was a key demand of the opposition protest movement.
United States has announced $150 million in aid to Egypt in support of its transition process towards democracy following the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. The Obama administration is also dispatching William Burns, the undersecretary of state for political affairs, and David Lipton, a senior White House adviser on international economics, to Egypt next week to talk with the interim military government on issues related to transition.
Two Indian journalists find themselves in the midst of action the moment they stepped foot in revolution-hit Cairo. They share their experiences.
Emboldened by workers' strike across Egypt, thousands of pro-democracy protesters on Thursday carried out massive rallies against President Hosni Mubarak as they vowed to step up their 17-day revolt despite the government's warning that army could "intervene to control the country."
With just hours left for Friday's showdown between protesters and the government in Egypt, the army on Thursday rolled out tanks and positioned soldiers to separate warring pro-and anti-Hosni Mubarak demonstrators, who clashed leaving seven people dead and 700 injured in fresh violence.
India needs to be concerned about the implication of restive people wanting to change regime after regime, says Mahesh Vijapurkar.
Some snapshots of the protests in Cairo against President Hosni Mubarak
Seventy-four people were killed and at least 1,000 injured on Wednesday when Egyptian football fans staged a pitch invasion in the city of Port Said, the deadliest incident since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak from power.
Seventy-four people were killed and at least 1,000 injured on Wednesday when Egyptian football fans staged a pitch invasion in the city of Port Said, the deadliest incident since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak from power.
Egyptians gathered in Cairo at the iconic Tahrir Square to mark the completion of their revolution that begin a year ago leading to the ousted of President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year-old regime.
Egyptian Islamist parties have swept the parliamentary polls with a Muslim Brotherhood linked political group alone notching 235 seats in the 498 member House, the first polls since the ouster of former president Hosni Mubarak, nearly a year ago.
Unmoved by the ruling Generals' overtures like appointment of a new Premier, tens of thousands of Egyptians on Friday packed the iconic Tahrir Square in Cairo for a "last chance" mass rally demanding that the military junta hand over power to civilians immediately.
The 47-year-old Democrat briefly spoke to Zardari, King Abdullah, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi and Poland's President Lech Kaczynski and its Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Friday over telephone, thanking them for their congratulatory messages.
Egypt's former interior minister Habib al-Adly on Tuesday became the first of the close aides of ousted president Hosni Mubarak to be put on trial accused of ordering firing on demonstrators during protests that toppled his former boss.
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