At least 24 killed and 200 injured as Christians clash with Egyptian military in Cairo

At least 24 have died after fierce clashes erupted between Christians and the Egyptian military in Cairo yesterday.

A further 200 were injured in the rioting, sparked by a protest over a recent attack on a church in the South of the country.

Thousands gathered as the protest spread from outside the state television building along the Nile to nearby Tahrir Square.





Anger: Coptic Christians throw stones at a military vehicle.Victim: A protester is injured during the clashes with the military.Huge numbers: Thousands of Coptic Christians took part in the march.Before the clashes: The demonstrations began peacefully outside the state television station in central Cairo

Coptic Christian protesters clashed with security forces in Cairo yesterday 24 deaths

Coptic Christian protesters clashed with security forces in Cairo yesterday

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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.

Thirteen killed in Cairo after clashes between Christians and Muslims

Clashes that broke out when a Muslim mob attacked thousands of Christians protesting the burning of a Cairo church killed at least 13 people and wounded about 140, officials said yesterday.

The Muslims torched the church amid an escalation of tensions over a love affair between a Muslim and a Christian that set off a violent feud between the couple's families.

The officials said all 13 fatalities died of gunshot wounds.

In a separate incident, at least two people were wounded when rival crowds threw rocks at Cairo's central Tahrir Square.

Egyptians gather near armored vehicles after yesterday's incidents

Tanks emit smoke to disperse demonstrators in Tahrir Square

A medic treats a wounded man after yesterday's clashes in Cairo

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'

Egypt banks and pyramids open as some protest in Cairo

A pro-democracy supporter prays alongside Egyptian Army soldiers atop a tank during Friday prayers in Tahrir Square, Cairo, February 18, 2011.Cleric Sheikh Yousef al-Qaradawi (centre) arrives to lead Friday prayers in Tahrir Square in Cairo,

Banks opened yesterday after a week-long closure as Egypt’s economy struggled to get back on its feet after political turmoil caused by the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak and subsequent labour protests.

New military rulers watched closely as many Egyptians resumed their jobs on the first day of the working week, after issuing a stern warning effectively banning labour protests and telling workers to abandon their revolutionary fervour.

The Egyptian Museum in Cairo and the pyramids at Giza were among the tourist sites that were reopened for the first time in some three weeks. Egypt’s lucrative tourist sector was dealt a body blow as foreigners stayed away.

There were some pockets of protest in Cairo.

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.

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As protests unfold today in the Middle East, we are seeing a freedom fever spreading across the region that will not easily be broken.

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

Pro, anti-government supporters clash in Tehran

People take part in the funeral of Sanee Zhaleh, a student who was shot dead during an opposition rally on Monday, in Tehran on February 16, 2011

Iranian government supporters clashed with their opponents today during a ceremony to mark the death of a student shot during an opposition rally two days ago, state broadcaster IRIB reported.

Sanee Zhaleh was shot dead on Monday during the first opposition rally for more than a year and immediately became a martyr to both the supporters and opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s hardline government.

Each side blamed the other for Zhaleh’s death.

Wednesday’s clash occurred during a funeral procession which started from Tehran University’s arts faculty, in the centre of the capital, where Zhaleh was a student, IRIB reported on its website.

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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.

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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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