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Mubarak defence challenges death penalty call
Hosni Mubarak was wheeled into court on Tuesday as his defence began a five-day challenge to calls by the prosecution for the former Egyptian president to be hanged for the deaths of democracy protesters.
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NASA rocket to bear name of Egyptian woman killed in protests
The US' space agency NASA has okayed the naming of one of its spaceships after a young Egyptian woman killed in late January during an anti-government protest, according to Egyptian daily Al-Masry-al-Youm.The paper quoted Essam Mohamed Haji, a young researcher at NASA, as saying Thursday that he had received approval to put the young woman Sally Za...
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Tahrir square listened to Mubarak with shock, horror
Hours before the president's speech, through dark, downtown streets, groups of young men and women stepped over the rocks of recent battles and walked toward the lights in Tahrir Square.They wore their country's colors on headbands, lanyards and T-shirts and arrived to a celebration already begun. Popcorn was sold, dates were passed around and a vo...
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Obama sharply questions Mubarak pledge
Bristling with impatience, President Barack Obama on Thursday openly and sharply questioned whether Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's pledge to shift power to his vice president is an "immediate, meaningful or sufficient" sign of reform for a country in upheaval.Without naming Mubarak, Obama issued a written statement that criticized the leader fo...
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US pulls up Suleiman for comments on Egypt's democracy
US has termed as "unhelpful" comments by Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman that Cairo was not yet ready for democracy and it was not the opportune moment to lift the 30-year-old emergency laws."Vice President Suleiman made some particularly unhelpful comments about Egypt not being ready for democracy, about not seeing a lift of the emergency la...
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Mubarak defence challenges death penalty call
Hosni Mubarak was wheeled into court on Tuesday as his defence began a five-day challenge to calls by the prosecution for the former Egyptian president to be hanged for the deaths of democracy protesters.
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NASA rocket to bear name of Egyptian woman killed in protests
The US' space agency NASA has okayed the naming of one of its spaceships after a young Egyptian woman killed in late January during an anti-government protest, according to Egyptian daily Al-Masry-al-Youm.The paper quoted Essam Mohamed Haji, a young researcher at NASA, as saying Thursday that he had received approval to put the young woman Sally Za...
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Tahrir square listened to Mubarak with shock, horror
Hours before the president's speech, through dark, downtown streets, groups of young men and women stepped over the rocks of recent battles and walked toward the lights in Tahrir Square.They wore their country's colors on headbands, lanyards and T-shirts and arrived to a celebration already begun. Popcorn was sold, dates were passed around and a vo...
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Obama sharply questions Mubarak pledge
Bristling with impatience, President Barack Obama on Thursday openly and sharply questioned whether Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's pledge to shift power to his vice president is an "immediate, meaningful or sufficient" sign of reform for a country in upheaval.Without naming Mubarak, Obama issued a written statement that criticized the leader fo...
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US pulls up Suleiman for comments on Egypt's democracy
US has termed as "unhelpful" comments by Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman that Cairo was not yet ready for democracy and it was not the opportune moment to lift the 30-year-old emergency laws."Vice President Suleiman made some particularly unhelpful comments about Egypt not being ready for democracy, about not seeing a lift of the emergency la...
