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Egypt’s Mubarak detained over graft, protest probe

Hosni Mubarak was ordered detained for 15 days today, a move that may help quell protests and quash suspicions that Egypt’s ruling army generals had been shielding their former commander from investigation.

Mubarak, toppled on February 11 after mass demonstrations against his 30-year rule, was admitted to hospital yesterday suffering what state media called a “heart crisis”. There were conflicting reports about the seriousness of his illness.

The public prosecutor had summoned Mubarak for questioning on Sunday over the killing of protesters and embezzling of public funds. His two sons, Alaa and Gamal, were also summoned for questioning over graft and ordered detained, state TV said.

“Former President Hosni Mubarak was detained for 15 days for investigation,” state television reported in a brief headline.

Protesters pack Cairo square, pile pressure on army

Protesters hold up a caricature of ousted president Hosni Mubarak carrying “people's money” in Tahrir Square, Cairo, April 8, 2011


Protesters packed Cairo’s Tahrir Square today, piling pressure on the ruling military council to meet demands including the prosecution of Hosni Mubarak in one of the biggest demonstrations since he was ousted.

By early afternoon, the protest had swollen to more than 100,000. Thousands waved red, white and black Egyptian flags in scenes reminiscent of the height of the protests that toppled Mubarak and helped ignite revolts in other Arab countries.

“Oh Field Marshal, we’ve been very patient!” chanted some of the protesters, gathered in the square that was the hub of protests that toppled Mubarak from the presidency and left the army, led by Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, in charge.

“Tantawi, Tantawi get your act together or do you want a pool of blood?” chanted some of the protesters.

The military has enjoyed broad support since it took control of the country on February 11 but frustrations have grown over the pace of reform. Attention is now focussed on the perceived tardiness of legal steps against Mubarak and his entourage.

Mubarak and his family have been living in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh since he left Cairo on February 11.

Stripped, punched and whipped with flag poles: Full horror of Lara Logan's attack emerges

More details have emerged of Lara Logan's terrifying ordeal at the hands of a frenzied mob.

The 39-year-old foreign correspondent for CBS News show 60 Minutes was separated from her film crew in Cairo on February 11 and surrounded by as many as 200 men in Tahrir Square at the height of the anti-Mubarak demonstrations.

According to one source, reported in The Sunday Times newspaper, sensitive parts of her body were covered in red marks that were originally thought to have been bite marks.

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Moments before attack: Lara Logan is seen surrounded by demonstrators in Tahrir Square on the night of her 'brutal and sustained assault'

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Britain’s Cameron first leader to visit new Egypt

British Prime Minister David Cameron today became the first foreign leader to visit Egypt since the downfall of Hosni Mubarak which electrified the Middle East and forced the West to rethink its policies in the region.

Cameron’s arrival came hot on the heels of a visit by William J. Burns, US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, who started a visit to Egypt in which he will meet with the army-led interim government as well as political groups.

Protests continue in Middle East, North Africa

Violent protests continued to cloud several countries in the Middle East and North Africa on Friday, as nearly 30 bodies of protesters were found in Libya, three protesters were killed in Yemen and dozens wounded in Bahrain.

Is Mubarak in a coma? Rumours rife about health of ousted 82-year-old Egyptian president

Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's health has seriously deteriorated and he may even be in a coma, according to reports in the Arab media.

Rumours are rife about the medical condition of the 82-year-old former leader, who is said to have been treated for cancer before.

Egyptian newspaper Masry al-Youm has reported that Mubarak went into a coma on Saturday.

Sameh Shoukry, Egypt's ambassador to the U.S., added some substance to the rumours yesterday in a TV interview but refused to be drawn on the details

Egypt Suez Canal told Iran warship passing scrapped

Queen Mary 2 crossing the Suez Canal in Ismailia, some 120km north of Cairo, in this file photo of March 16, 2007. The Suez Canal administration was told that plans by two Iranian naval ships to cross to the Mediterranean today had been cancelled


Egypt’s Suez Canal was informed that plans by two Iranian naval vessels to cross through the strategic waterway heading north to the Mediterranean had been cancelled, an official said today.

The Suez Canal Authority was “informed today about the cancellation of two scheduled trips of two Iranian warships and no new date was set to cross the Suez as part of the southern convoy coming from the Red Sea,” the canal official, who declined to be named, said.

The official, who identified the ships as the Alvand and Kharg, said the vessels were near the Saudi Red Sea port of Jeddah.

Reporter Lara Logan leaves hospital six days after Cairo mob sex-attack

* Was set upon by mob of more than 200 in Tahrir Square
* 'Thugs yelled Jew, Jew at her' during attack
* Saved by group of women and 20 Egyptian soldiers

Former GMTV reporter Lara Logan will be released from hospital today as she vows to return to work 'within weeks' following an horrific sex assault in Egypt.

The mother-of-one was hospitalised after the 'sustained and brutal' assault on February 11 as she reported from Cairo on the resignation of President Mubarak.

She was surrounded by a mob of 200 men after becoming separated from her TV crew in Tahrir Square and had to be rescued by a group of women and up to 20 Egyptian soldiers.

 Ms Logan seen here in another image from Tahrir Square moments before she was assaulted. The image was only released yesterday. There is no suggestion any of the men pictured were responsible for the attack

Attack: CBS News correspondent Lara Logan pictured shortly before she was assaulted in Tahrir Square while she was reporting on the Egyptian protests. There is no suggestion any of the men pictured were involved in the attack

Ex-GMTV reporter Lara Logan leaves hospital six days after Cairo mob sex-attack

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Army asserts command as Egypt drifts back to work

Buildings are lit up as late-night traffic snakes its way through the streets close to Tahrir Square in Cairo February 13, 2011

Egypt’s generals are asserting their command over the country following the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak, preparing today to ban strikes and to warn they will act against “chaos and disorder”.

Having suspended the constitution and dissolved parliament yesterday, moves welcomed by those who saw both institutions as perverted to Mubarak’s personal ends, the armed forces council was planning, a military source said, to issue orders intended to stifle further disruption and get the country back to work.

Disgruntled employees are already pressing for better deals.

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Fireworks, carnival erupt at toppling of ‘Pharaoh’

Egyptians declared triumph over their “Pharoah” yesterday when President Hosni Mubarak stood down, and huge street parties took the place of the protests which had demanded his downfall for the past two weeks.

“We have brought down the regime, we have brought down the regime,” chanted the hundreds of thousands packed into Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the heart of protests that toppled Mubarak in a show of people power unprecedented in Egypt’s modern history.

They waved flags, cried, cheered, embraced and ululated when the news reached them through a public address system. Fireworks burst over Tahrir Square as Egyptians wept in joy and disbelief at a day some never thought would come.

“We have done something unprecedented in 7,000 years, we have brought down the Pharaoh. Egypt is free, it will never go back to what it was, we won’t let it,” said Tareq Saad, a 51-year-old carpenter in the square.

Egyptians from all walks of life, Muslims and Christians, liberals and Islamists, poured into central Cairo to join a street party that ran late into the night. Cars choked the streets, honking in celebration and flying the Egyptian flag.

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Army: Egypt to respect international treaties

Soldiers move razor wire at the frontline near Tahrir Square in Cairo February 12, 2011. Pro-democracy activists in Cairo’s Tahrir Square vowed today to stay there until the Higher Military Council now running Egypt after the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak accepts their agenda for democratic reform.

Egypt’s new military rulers said today the existing cabinet would stay until a new one was formed and the country would respect international treaties, a statement that will reassure Israel and the United States.

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Egyptians stage big protest, dismiss power plan

Egyptians staged one of their biggest protests yet yesterday demanding President Hosni Mubarak step down now, their wrath undiminished by the vice president’s announcement of a plan to transfer power.
Protesters, many moved by a Google executive’s tearful account of his detention by security forces, poured into Cairo’s Tahrir Square to pack a space that can hold a quarter of a million people.


While the government refuses to budge on the demonstrators’ main demands, Vice President Omar Suleiman promised there would be no reprisals against the protesters for their three-week-old campaign to eject Mubarak, 82, after 30 years in office.

Over 200,000 in Egypt square call on Mubarak to go

A supporter of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak holds up a sign during a demonstration in Cairo today February 1, 2011

More than 200,000 Egyptians poured into Tahrir Square in Cairo today hoping to gather a million people to bring an end to 30 years of President Hosni Mubarak’s authoritarian rule.

The army’s pledge yesterday not to use force against demonstrators emboldened Egyptians to push for the biggest shake-up of the political system since 1952, when army officers deposed King Farouk.

“Mubarak go away to Saudi or Bahrain” and “We don’t want you, we don’t want you”, chanted men, women and children in a sea of people that began gathering from the early hours.