Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is expected to say he will step down at the next election while U.S. President Barack Obama has told him he should not run, according to reports.
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has expressed his total support for the anti-government protesters in Egypt, after major Turkish newspapers has criticized his ruling AKP Party for their silence on the topic.
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King Abdullah of Jordan, a close U.S. ally, replaced his prime minister Tuesday following protests inspired by mass demonstrations in Tunisia and Egypt, but the opposition dismissed the move as insufficient.
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A synagogue was set on fire in Tunisia overnight and gangs rampaged through schools in the capital on Tuesday, prompting the army to fan out to calm fears of chaos after the revolt that toppled Zine al-Abdine Ben Ali.
At least one million people rallied across Egypt on Tuesday clamouring for President Hosni Mubarak to give up power, piling pressure on a leader who has towered over Middle East politics for 30 years to make way for a new era of democracy in the Arab nation.
U.S. Senator John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has urged Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to step down and promise that neither he nor his son will run in the presidential election scheduled for later this year. Kerry is the highest-level US politician to call for Mubarak’s removal.
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As hundreds of thousands of anti-government protesters converge in central Cairo on the eighth day of unrest in Egypt, the U.S. government has instructed all of its non-emergency staff and their families to evacuate the country.
Indians in the troubled city of Cairo had to pay twice the normal fare for a one-way ticket to Mumbai on India's government-owned Air India flight, despite the fact that life came to a halt in the Egyptian capital with banks and ATMs being shut, said a media report on Tuesday.
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At least 219 people died and 510 were injured in Tunisia during the protests that eventually forced the President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali to flee to Saudi Arabia last month, according to a team of UN officials investigating human rights in the country.
The king of Jordan has dissolved his government and appointed a new prime minister, in the wake of protests demanding political reform and economic improvements.
Israel is angry at U.S. President Barack Obama for not supporting Egypt's falling dictator Mubarak and legitimating the people's outcry for democracy and freedom instead. This is seen as a threat to Israel's geopolitical interests in the Middle East.
Protesters assembled in Cairo's Tahir square are considering a march to the presidential palace, Al Jazeera reported from Cairo.
Israel has launched a diplomatic offensive as speculation intensified that the U.S. and European allies were ditching Egypt's beleaguered president Hosni Mubarak. Israel fears its decades-old peace with Egypt will crumble if Mubarak is replaced by a populist regime which by all means will be inimical to the Jewish state.
