Mon 31 Jan 2011
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Police slowly trickle back to Egyptian cities

<p>A protester chanting slogans against Egyptian political regime during a massive march in central Cairo, Tahrir Square, January 25, 2011. Earlier, a group of political activists organized a Facebook campaign, calling for nationwide protests on Police Day, January 25. The Day of Anger - which is now widely known - is a day against current political system corruption, incompetence as well as unemployment and detriorating livelihoods. For second day in a row, protests are still erupting nationwide in an unprecedented nationwide move.</p>
Photographed by Tahseen Bakr
Police slowly trickled back to cities across Egypt on Sunday evening following the 6th consecutive day of protests where hundreds of thousands of protesters defied an official 2PM curfew to protest in Egypt's...
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Cairo protesters embark on hunger strike

Photographed by Asmaa Youssef
Ten protesters in Tahrir Square began a hunger strike at 6PM on Sunday in response to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s refusal to relinquish power. Mubarak announced on Friday that although he had fired his...
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Egyptians turn out massively to donate blood

Photographed by Mohamed El Dahshan
The blood bank at Kasr Al-Eini hospital, a few hundred meters from downtown Cairo's Tahrir Square, where demonstrations continued into their sixth consecutive day, was overflowing with blood donors. The...
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ElBaradei greets Tahrir protesters, pledges 'new era' after Mubarak

Photographed by Asmaa Youssef
Addressing over 10,000 protesters who gathered in Cairo's central Tahrir Square on Sunday evening, prominent opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei reiterated demands that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak give up power...
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Egypt's opposition discusses interim government

<p> Egyptian Nobel Peace laureate and former UN atomic energy chief Mohamed ElBaradei addresses supporters during a gathering in the Nile Delta town of Mansura on April 2, 2010. ElBaradei, the former UN nuclear chief turned Egyptian reformer, has called for a boycott of Egypt&#39;s elections later this year, the independent Shorouk newspaper reported on September 06, 2010, as legislative elections are due to take place in Egypt in November ahead of presidential polls expected to take place in 2011.</p>
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National opposition groups demanded that reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei form a transitional government, according to a statement issued by the Democratic Front Party. The statement said that following President Hosni...
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Photos

<p>A Central Security Forces (CSF) policeman ready to shoot protesters (not in photo) with rubber bullets, Isaaf, central Cairo, January 26, 2011.</p> <p>Thousands of Egyptians took to streets on what is now branded &quot;Day of Anger&quot; (or, alternatively, &quot;Day of Rage&quot;) on Police Day, swarming into Tahrir Square in central Cairo. Protesters shouted against Egypt&#39;s Hosni Mubarak and called for political change, social justice and end of what is widely seen as a 30-year rule of corruption under Mubarak. Egyptian security apparatus kept a low note, only to play rough - using tear gas, rubber bullets and fire hoses, and, not least, beating protesters - as thousands pledged to spent their night in Tahrir Square until all demands are met.</p>

In defense of Egypt's capital

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<p>Day of Anger. Central Cairo, January 25, 2011.</p> <p>Typically crowded, Central Cairo was a ghost city early on January 25 as Egyptian police apparatus was confident protests are a business as usual matter. However, what a lonely kid carrying bakeries seemed what Egyptian security is capabale of only turned into unprecedented massive protests in Tahrir Square in Central Cairo.</p> <p>On Day of Anger (or, alternatively, &quot;Day of Rage&quot;), thousands of Egyptians took to streets, swarming into Tahrir Square. Protesters shouted against Egypt&#39;s Hosni Mubarak and called for political change, social justice and end of what is widely seen as a 30-year rule of corruption under Mubarak. Egyptian security apparatus kept a low note, only to play rough - using tear gas, rubber bullets and fire hoses, and, not least, beating protesters - as thousands pledged to spent their night in Tahrir Square until all demands are met.</p> <p>Protests are all over Egypt now.</p>

Egypt: Anger

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Day of Anger. Central Cairo, January 25, 2011. Typically crowded, Central Cairo was a ghost city early on January 25 as...
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<p>Mohamed el-Baradei, former former Chief of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), speaks to media reporters upon his arrival, Cairo International Airport, January 27, 2011, to participate in Day of Anger protests. </p>

Baradei arrives Cairo

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<p>A Central Security Forces (CSF) policeman ready to shoot protesters (not in photo) with rubber bullets, Isaaf, central Cairo, January 26, 2011.</p> <p>Thousands of Egyptians took to streets on what is now branded &quot;Day of Anger&quot; (or, alternatively, &quot;Day of Rage&quot;) on Police Day, swarming into Tahrir Square in central Cairo. Protesters shouted against Egypt&#39;s Hosni Mubarak and called for political change, social justice and end of what is widely seen as a 30-year rule of corruption under Mubarak. Egyptian security apparatus kept a low note, only to play rough - using tear gas, rubber bullets and fire hoses, and, not least, beating protesters - as thousands pledged to spent their night in Tahrir Square until all demands are met.</p>
<p>Day of Anger. Central Cairo, January 25, 2011.</p> <p>Typically crowded, Central Cairo was a ghost city early on January 25 as Egyptian police apparatus was confident protests are a business as usual matter. However, what a lonely kid carrying bakeries seemed what Egyptian security is capabale of only turned into unprecedented massive protests in Tahrir Square in Central Cairo.</p> <p>On Day of Anger (or, alternatively, &quot;Day of Rage&quot;), thousands of Egyptians took to streets, swarming into Tahrir Square. Protesters shouted against Egypt&#39;s Hosni Mubarak and called for political change, social justice and end of what is widely seen as a 30-year rule of corruption under Mubarak. Egyptian security apparatus kept a low note, only to play rough - using tear gas, rubber bullets and fire hoses, and, not least, beating protesters - as thousands pledged to spent their night in Tahrir Square until all demands are met.</p> <p>Protests are all over Egypt now.</p>
<p>Mohamed el-Baradei, former former Chief of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), speaks to media reporters upon his arrival, Cairo International Airport, January 27, 2011, to participate in Day of Anger protests. </p>

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<p>أحد المتظاهرين في مواجهه قوات الأمن، إمبابة، الجيزة، 26 يناير 2011. احتشد مئات المتظاهرين في مسيرات احتجاجية، استكمالاً لمظاهرات «يوم الغضب» التي بدأت قبل يوم في مختلف محافظات مصر، والتي دعت لها مجموعة من القوى السياسية المعارضة، بالتزامن مع أعياد الشرطة، احتجاجاً على الأوضاع السياسية والاقتصادية والاجتماعية المتردية بالبلد. حدثت اشتباكات عنيفة بين قوات الأمن والمتظاهرين، وحاولت قوات الأمن تفريق المتظاهرين وفض اعتصامهم وقاموا بالاعتداء واعتقال البعض.</p>
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