CAIRO - Egypt is on fire. Not only figuratively. According to reports from Al Jazeera TV, the headquarters of the National Democratic Party of President Hosni Mubrak, located in Cairo, near the Egyptian National Museum, was set on fire. I am also running battles between protesters and security forces to the Interior Ministry.
Despite the curfew imposed by the armed forces, tens of thousands of people were in the streets demanding President Mubarak to leave power. There were moments of tension, with attacks on ministries to repel bullets by police, but overall the incidents between police and protesters appear to have been limited.
The Al Jazeera satellite television showed images of tanks on the move literally overwhelmed by demonstrators with flags and signs. The events have affected not only the capital but also in other cities. Is still very heavy, the overall budget from the beginning of the revolt. The victims were in fact share exceeded 100, while thousands were injured.
In this climate of tension, political changes are continuing at a dizzying pace: after his address to the nation on Friday by the president, the government of Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif has resigned. In the afternoon, General Omar Soleiman, intelligence chief, was appointed vice president after a meeting called by Mubarak to meet the crisis.
The task of forming a new government was entrusted to the Minister of Civil Aviation, Ahmed Shafik. Meanwhile, Ahmad Ezz, one of the most prominent businessmen of the country and secretary of the party of Mubarak, Pnd, resigned and according to rumors would be planning to flee abroad. Already in London would also, according to Al Jazeera always, his two sons and the wife of Mubarak.
The news was however denied by the state television. U.S. skeptical. All moves that the United States to date key ally of Egypt, however, rejected as unnecessary melina. The Egyptian authorities, says a message on Twitter with the U.S. State Department spokesman, PJ Crowley, "can not simply shuffle the cards and hold on." "It 's time that Mubarak - adds Crowley - after speaking of reforms, face hard facts to follow his words." A concept already expressed explicitly yesterday by President Barack Obama.
Findings similar to that expressed by Mohamed ElBaradei, Nobel Peace Prize and a key figure in the Egyptian opposition. The new appointment of top Egyptian, he said, are only a "move to buy time" because in reality is a government of national unity and "the presidency should not be in the hands of the general, but must be elected by the people." The appeal of Europe.
Nicolas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel and David Cameron has come tonight instead a joint appeal to the Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, to "avoid at all costs the use of violence against unarmed civilians", and the demonstrators to "exercise peacefully their rights" . The day. At 16 am local time (15 in Italy) but not fire the new curfew in Tahrir Square, Cairo, are still tens of thousands of protesters who inveigh against Mubarak slogans.
The square, the epicenter of protests yesterday, remained for the entire day surrounded by armored forces. Al Jazeera reported that a new assault on the crowd at the Interior Ministry, the police opened fire. In the clash would be killed three people. The satellite TV also reports of gunfire near the mint of the Central Bank of Egypt and a crowd of demonstrators marching to the headquarters of state television.
Meanwhile, the police killed 17 people who attempted to attack two police stations in the governorate of Beni Sueif about 115 km south of Cairo. Twelve people lost their lives while 5 Bilba to the Commissioner of Nasser City. Little risk for the Italians. The Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini assured however that "there are absolutely no concerns about the Italians" present at the time in Egypt.
Similarly, the Italian Foreign Ministry states that are not involved in the accident, except that some tourists were robbed, but calling those who did not refer any emergency trips to Egypt. Alitalia, inter alia, announced that he had changed the schedule of a series of flights to Cairo.
The detailed list is available on the website of the airline. Alert museums. The head of Egyptian antiquities, Zahi Hawass, told state television, rejected an attempt to plunder the Egyptian Museum. Would be destroyed in accidents, however, two mummies of the pharaohs. News on new attempts to assaults on the cultural heritage, as well as against other state structures, not only in Cairo but also in Alexandria and Suez, however, have followed each other throughout the day between confirmations and denials.
Clashes in Alexandria, Ismailia, Suez. In the afternoon we had planned a new event in Alexandria, but the protesters took to the streets since the morning and witnesses speak of clashes and police firing. In Ismailia, a town on the Suez Canal, thousands of port workers were compared with agents who wanted to prevent them from reaching the workplace.
The officers responded with tear gas and rubber bullets. Parades also running at Suez. Particularly serious clashes in Beni Sueif, a center about 115 km south of Cairo, where clashes between demonstrators and the police would be 12 people died. Muslim infiltrators from the Gaza Strip. In Rafah, the border with the Gaza Strip, the demonstrators attacked the headquarters of the prefecture, according to witnesses had been killed three police officers.
Circulating in the area also entries for Palestinians in Gaza through the Rafah crossing to Egypt and come take advantage of the absence of police checks. According to the correspondent of Al Jazeera, there would be dozens of Islamic militants who, taking advantage of the chaos, are finding their way into Egypt.
News denials in the evening by the Ministry of Interior of the administration of Hamas in the Gaza Strip issued a statement to ensure that the border with Egypt was "under full control." 
Despite the curfew imposed by the armed forces, tens of thousands of people were in the streets demanding President Mubarak to leave power. There were moments of tension, with attacks on ministries to repel bullets by police, but overall the incidents between police and protesters appear to have been limited.
The Al Jazeera satellite television showed images of tanks on the move literally overwhelmed by demonstrators with flags and signs. The events have affected not only the capital but also in other cities. Is still very heavy, the overall budget from the beginning of the revolt. The victims were in fact share exceeded 100, while thousands were injured.
In this climate of tension, political changes are continuing at a dizzying pace: after his address to the nation on Friday by the president, the government of Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif has resigned. In the afternoon, General Omar Soleiman, intelligence chief, was appointed vice president after a meeting called by Mubarak to meet the crisis.
The task of forming a new government was entrusted to the Minister of Civil Aviation, Ahmed Shafik. Meanwhile, Ahmad Ezz, one of the most prominent businessmen of the country and secretary of the party of Mubarak, Pnd, resigned and according to rumors would be planning to flee abroad. Already in London would also, according to Al Jazeera always, his two sons and the wife of Mubarak.
The news was however denied by the state television. U.S. skeptical. All moves that the United States to date key ally of Egypt, however, rejected as unnecessary melina. The Egyptian authorities, says a message on Twitter with the U.S. State Department spokesman, PJ Crowley, "can not simply shuffle the cards and hold on." "It 's time that Mubarak - adds Crowley - after speaking of reforms, face hard facts to follow his words." A concept already expressed explicitly yesterday by President Barack Obama.
Findings similar to that expressed by Mohamed ElBaradei, Nobel Peace Prize and a key figure in the Egyptian opposition. The new appointment of top Egyptian, he said, are only a "move to buy time" because in reality is a government of national unity and "the presidency should not be in the hands of the general, but must be elected by the people." The appeal of Europe.
Nicolas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel and David Cameron has come tonight instead a joint appeal to the Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, to "avoid at all costs the use of violence against unarmed civilians", and the demonstrators to "exercise peacefully their rights" . The day. At 16 am local time (15 in Italy) but not fire the new curfew in Tahrir Square, Cairo, are still tens of thousands of protesters who inveigh against Mubarak slogans.
The square, the epicenter of protests yesterday, remained for the entire day surrounded by armored forces. Al Jazeera reported that a new assault on the crowd at the Interior Ministry, the police opened fire. In the clash would be killed three people. The satellite TV also reports of gunfire near the mint of the Central Bank of Egypt and a crowd of demonstrators marching to the headquarters of state television.
Meanwhile, the police killed 17 people who attempted to attack two police stations in the governorate of Beni Sueif about 115 km south of Cairo. Twelve people lost their lives while 5 Bilba to the Commissioner of Nasser City. Little risk for the Italians. The Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini assured however that "there are absolutely no concerns about the Italians" present at the time in Egypt.
Similarly, the Italian Foreign Ministry states that are not involved in the accident, except that some tourists were robbed, but calling those who did not refer any emergency trips to Egypt. Alitalia, inter alia, announced that he had changed the schedule of a series of flights to Cairo.
The detailed list is available on the website of the airline. Alert museums. The head of Egyptian antiquities, Zahi Hawass, told state television, rejected an attempt to plunder the Egyptian Museum. Would be destroyed in accidents, however, two mummies of the pharaohs. News on new attempts to assaults on the cultural heritage, as well as against other state structures, not only in Cairo but also in Alexandria and Suez, however, have followed each other throughout the day between confirmations and denials.
Clashes in Alexandria, Ismailia, Suez. In the afternoon we had planned a new event in Alexandria, but the protesters took to the streets since the morning and witnesses speak of clashes and police firing. In Ismailia, a town on the Suez Canal, thousands of port workers were compared with agents who wanted to prevent them from reaching the workplace.
The officers responded with tear gas and rubber bullets. Parades also running at Suez. Particularly serious clashes in Beni Sueif, a center about 115 km south of Cairo, where clashes between demonstrators and the police would be 12 people died. Muslim infiltrators from the Gaza Strip. In Rafah, the border with the Gaza Strip, the demonstrators attacked the headquarters of the prefecture, according to witnesses had been killed three police officers.
Circulating in the area also entries for Palestinians in Gaza through the Rafah crossing to Egypt and come take advantage of the absence of police checks. According to the correspondent of Al Jazeera, there would be dozens of Islamic militants who, taking advantage of the chaos, are finding their way into Egypt.
News denials in the evening by the Ministry of Interior of the administration of Hamas in the Gaza Strip issued a statement to ensure that the border with Egypt was "under full control."
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