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Student strike body demands handover of power from ruling military council to civil authority
Ahram Online brings you a selection of photos of Friday's marches, which snaked their way through Abbasiya en route to the heavily guarded defence ministry calling for an end to military rule
Following string of earlier kidnappings, armed tribesmen seize 3 Korean tourists and local guide in Egypt's restive Sinai Peninsula
Military source denies recent reports of looming cabinet shake-up, says El-Ganzouri govt will remain in place until presidential polls slated for June
Asmaa Mahfouz strikes out at Egypt's ruling military council as she marches towards defence ministry headquarters in Cairo's Abbasiya district
UK national, reportedly on list of foreigners suspected of fomenting unrest in Egypt, is ordered off London-bound plane Friday morning
Essam Sharaf warns Saturday's planned civil-disobedience campaign will lead to country's ruination, stresses need for stability during Egypt's critical transitional period
Muslim Brotherhood's FJP calls on Egyptians to beautify capital Saturday instead of answering revolutionaries' appeals for civil disobedience campaign
On the anniversary of Mubarak's ouster, opinion is divided between those supporting a general strike and others who see it as a downward spiral towards civil disobedience  
Day that saw ten different anti-SCAF protest marches converge on defence ministry ends without any reported incidents of violence

MP Mohamed Abu Hamed, presidential hopeful Bothaina Kamel roughed up by unidentified assailants while taking part in Friday's protest marches to defence ministry building

Well-known authority in field of human development is killed along with sister, housekeeper in Nasr City blaze early Friday morning

Cairo's flashpoint square remains calm ahead of planned demonstrations calling for immediate surrender of power by Egypt's ruling military

Recurrent street battles between police and protesters have led the interior ministry to literally wall itself in; Ahram Online maps the growth of these concrete curtains and the transformation of Cairo into a city of walls




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