Tag Archives: Egypt

Anderson Cooper Attacked In Cairo

He’s OK but things are rapidly devolving as pro-Mubarak forces have arrived en masse and are attacking the previously peaceful protesters.

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History Unfolding In Cairo

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Mubarak: I Won’t Run For Reelection

This is unlikely to satisfy the people in the streets.

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Huckabee: Obama Is Abandoning An Ally

Potential 2012 GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says that everyone in Israel is terrified that Obama will abandon them too, just like he’s doing with Hosni Mubarak.

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Photo Of The Day – Cairo Protest

A crowd estimated in the hundreds of thousands flooded Cairo’s Tahrir Square this morning in the eighth straight day of widespread unrest. As protests continue to spread to other nations in the region, this morning Jordan’s King Abdullah fired his entire cabinet.

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EGYPT: Google Launches Speak-To-Tweet

Google has created a work-around for Egyptians cut off from the internet. Via the company’s official blog: Like many people we’ve been glued to the news unfolding in Egypt and thinking of what we could do to help people on the ground. Over the weekend we came up with the idea of a speak-to-tweet service—the ability for anyone to tweet …

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Fox News: Where’s Egypt, Again?

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EGYPT: Foreigners Begin Evacuation

The United States and many other nations have begun evacuating their embassy staffers and other citizens from Egypt as unrest continues. Americans will be airlifted to “safe haven” countries in the region, from where they must make their own arrangements to get home. The United States planned to begin charter flights to help Americans leave the country Monday. Other governments …

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Twitter On Egypt: The Tweets Must Flow

Twitter has issued a statement which partially references events in Egypt. Our goal is to instantly connect people everywhere to what is most meaningful to them. For this to happen, freedom of expression is essential. Some Tweets may facilitate positive change in a repressed country, some make us laugh, some make us think, some downright anger a vast majority of …

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Obama Speaks On Egyptian Unrest

Not exactly the resounding calling-out of Mubarak that many had hoped for, but still some strong words.

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Mubarak: I Won’t Step Down

Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak just held a press conference to announce that he will not step down. But he will dissolve the government. Specifically, Mubarak said that the current government will be forced to resign and he would appoint a new one on Saturday. He gave no indications he himself planned to step down, despite increasing calls for him to …

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Tweet Of The Day – Robert Gibbs

As we saw last year in Iran, the roles of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube cannot be underestimated in these things.

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Hillary Clinton Calls For Calm In Egypt, Backs Right Of Protesters To Gather

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EGYPT: Police Battle Protesters With Tear Gas On Bridge Over Nile

UPDATE: In an interesting development since the above video was made, protesters are now embracing and welcoming the Egyptian army, which has just been deployed. This underscores the possibility of the military taking over the government.

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Riots Worsen In Egypt

The Egyptian government has cut off internet access in Cairo as unrest worsens on the third straight day of rioting.

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Rioting Continues In Eygpt

Police are retaliating against protesters with fire hoses, tear gas, and batons tonight as Cairo is roiled by its second day of anti-government rioting.

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Anti-Government Riots Rock Egypt

Russia Today reports: Thousands of anti-government protesters, some hurling rocks and climbing on top of an armoured police truck, clashed with riot police on Tuesday in the centre of Cairo in a Tunisia-inspired demonstration to demand the end of Hosni Mubarak’s nearly 30 years in power. Police responded with blasts from a water cannon and set upon crowds with batons …

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Want To Feel Better About The World?

Here’s a tiny spark of light.

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EGYPT: Homo-Erotic Coke Ad?

Copyranter notes: “First of all, congratulations Egyptians on finally getting the convenience of soda bottles with twist-off caps. And secondly, homo-erotic humor on TV in morally repressed Egypt! Brave of the ad agency, Cairo’s Fortune Promoseven, since the country has a de facto ban on homosexuality.”

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UNITED NATIONS: Egypt Blocks LGBT Rights Group From Accreditation

The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission’s request for accreditation as a consulting group to the United Nations has been blocked by Egypt. The group, which had applied for “consultative status” at the U.N. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) three years ago, is an international NGO and advocacy group focusing on protecting the rights of homosexuals and lesbians worldwide. …

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