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Egypt marks one year since anti-Mubarak revolt
AFP, Published on 25/01/2012
» Protesters prepared to spend the night in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Wednesday after a massive rally to mark one year since the launch of the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak, with activists vowing to revive their unfinished revolution.
Egypt to partially lift emergency rule
AFP, Published on 25/01/2012
» Egypt's military ruler said the country's decades-old state of emergency will be lifted on Wednesday except in cases of fighting "thuggery," but human rights groups slammed the move as cosmetic.
Brotherhood wins Egypt vote
AFP, Published on 21/01/2012
» Egypt's Islamists led by the once-banned Muslim Brotherhood clinched more than two thirds of seats in parliament in historic polls after the ouster of strongman Hosni Mubarak, official results showed on Saturday.
Lawyers for Egypt?s Mubarak begin legal fightback
AFP, Published on 17/01/2012
» Egypt's ex-president Hosni Mubarak was wheeled Tuesday into court where the defence was to begin its case, television showed, as his lawyer said he would need five sessions to defend the ousted strongman.
Tunisian man sets himself alight in poor region: sources
AFP, Published on 06/01/2012
» A jobless man set himself afire Thursday in front of the main government office of the poor Tunisian province of Gafsa as three ministers visited the unemployment-hit area, local sources said.
Egypt prosecutor demands death sentence for Mubarak
AFP, Published on 05/01/2012
» The prosecution in Hosni Mubarak's trial delivered an emotional appeal to the court on Thursday to sentence the fallen Egyptian dictator to hang for the killings of protesters during the revolt that overthrew him.
Egyptians head to polls in final round of landmark vote
AFP, Published on 04/01/2012
» Egyptians headed to the polls again on Wednesday in the final round of a phased election to choose the first parliament since a popular uprising toppled Hosni Mubarak in February.
Egyptians vote in final phase of landmark polls
AFP, Published on 03/01/2012
» Egyptians are voting on Tuesday in the final round of a landmark post-revolution election that has propelled Islamist movements into the centre stage of politics.