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Thursday, February 03, 2011

Egypt: Latest Tweets, and Mubarak Wants To Leave

Mubarak tells ABC News that he no longer wishes to be President, and wishes that he could leave now.

    So what’s stopping you Mr. Mubarak?

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PHOTO: Mubarakâ??s wealth may be safeguarded when he steps down

 

    Below is a picture taken from Egypt’s state run television, NILE TV, which shows the streets in Tahrir Square as being empty while they are really still full of people.     Al Jazeera Live

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6:22pm We're seeing wire reports of significant anti-Mubarak demonstrations at the Egyptian embassy in Beirut late this afternoon. More than 100 protesters clashed with Lebanese police after trying to break through a security cordon and enter the building. No arrests or injuries were reported, but police were using batons and rifle butts to push away the crowds. Army troops were then brought in to reinforce the police lines. Many of the protesters were holding up portraits of the late Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser.

 

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1:22 pm Inspired by Egypt and Tunisia, thousands of opponents of Yemen's government and its supporters are demonstrating in the capital and other cities a day after Yemen's president pledged not to seek another term in office.

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8:55 am Egypt's health minister, Ahmed Samih Farid confirms five people were killed in violence in Cairo's Tahrir Square.

Most of the casualties were the result of stone throwing and attacks with metal rods and sticks. At dawn today there were gunshots. The real casualties taken to hospital were 836, of which 86 are still in hospital and there are five dead

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