Stalemate rules Egypt’s streets

Little progress was made at the end of the second day of discussions between Egyptian Vice-President Omar Suleiman and various opposition groups on Sunday. The opposition is split on the way forward and thousands of defiant protesters continued to throng the capital’s Tahrir (Liberation) Square for

Massive crowds across Egypt demand Mubarak ouster

By SARAH EL DEEB and HADEEL AL-SHALCHI, Associated Press Sarah El Deeb And Hadeel Al-shalchi, Associated Press

CAIRO – More than a quarter-million people flooded into the heart of Cairo Tuesday, filling the city's main square in by far the largest demonstration in a week of unceasing demands for President Hosni Mubarak to leave after nearly 30 years in power.

Protesters streamed into Tahrir, or Liberation, Square, among them people defying a government transportation shutdown to make their way from rural provinces in the Nile Delta. The peaceful crowd was jammed in shoulder to shoulder — schoolteachers, farmers, unemployed university graduates, women in conservative headscarves and women in high heels, men in suits and working-class men in scuffed shoes.

They sang nationalist songs and chanted the anti-Mubarak "Leave! Leave! Leave!" as military helicopters buzzed overhead. Organizers said the aim was to intensify marches to get the president out of power by Friday, and similar demonstrations erupted in at least five other cities around Egypt.

Egypt severs internet connections

David John Walker Jan 28th, 2011 Featured News, World. RSS 2.0.

Egypt began shutting down all internet services at 10:12 p.m. local time Thursday night because the country is facing increasing political unrest including clashes between tens of thousands of protestors and security forces. According to Jim Crowie, chief technology officer at a network security company in New Hampshire, Egypt no longer existed on the internet by 10:25 p.m.