Nobel Peace laureate and democracy advocate Mohamed ElBaradei appeared in Cairo’s main square on Sunday evening, addressing some five-thousand protesters calling for the departure of President Hosni Mubarak (Jan. 30)
Cairo appeared to be relatively calm early Sunday as residents reflected after another day and night of protest and political upheaval in the Egyptian capital. Soldiers were busy rebuilding barricades as residents scanned the morning newspapers. (Jan. 30)
UPDATE: Sources who were in the room at the time of broadcast now confirm that the pool camera providing the feed for CNN was Fox News. The Fox News pool camera was set up off-kilter from the tele-prompter feed despite the protestations of the Tea Party Express production team. Developing… So, what was really up [...]
NEW YORK (AP) – Are you too late to the rally? One of the fastest bull markets in history pushed the Dow Jones industrial average to a close near 12,000 last week, the highest point for the index of 30 blue chip stocks in two and a half years. The broader Standard and Poor’s 500 [...]
DETROIT (AP) — A 63-year-old U.S. man who had explosives in his vehicle was arrested outside one of America’s largest mosques in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, authorities said. Terrorist Threat At Local Mosque: MyFoxDETROIT.com Police said Roger Stockham was arraigned Wednesday on one count of making a false report or threat of terrorism and [...]
Time: The break-in at Cairo’s Egyptian Museum could have been a disaster of historic proportions, a repeat of the rape of Baghdad’s multi-millennial heritage after Iraq’s equivalent museum was looted in 2003. It wasn’t. But only thanks to sheer dumb luck. On Friday, Egypt’s government declared a 6 p.m.-to-7 a.m. curfew. The much detested riot [...]
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Arizona Republic: As the Phoenix-area housing market’s shift from boom to bust approaches its fifth anniversary, a number of real-estate analysts have replaced optimistic terms such as “recovery” with sobering talk of a new dark market reality. The landscape of tomorrow’s housing market, as depicted in recent research papers and forecast meetings, is only a [...]
The Hill: President Obama’s top science adviser said there’s a need to “educate” GOP climate change skeptics on Capitol Hill as the White House seeks to advance its green energy agenda. “It is an education problem. I think we have to educate them,” said John Holdren, who heads the White House Office of Science and [...]
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Both candidates for governor of the cartel-plagued state of Guerrero declared themselves winners Sunday evening as polls closed in an election shadowed by corruption scandals, political violence and the drug war. The vote in Guerrero, home to the resort city of Acapulco and a battleground for feuding drug cartels, is the [...]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – A suicide bomber killed the deputy governor of strategic Kandahar province Saturday, raising fears that insurgents were reigniting an assassination campaign against public servants that terrorized the south’s main urban hub for much of last year. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which killed Abdul Latif Ashna and injured three [...]
Los Angeles Times: Reporting from Cairo — Egypt’s military moved more aggressively Sunday to take control over parts of the capital, but the sixth day of unrest ended with increasing questions about how much longer President Hosni Mubarak could withstand calls for his resignation, including an electrifying demand from opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei that he [...]
Haaretz: The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest opposition group,is in talks with other anti-government figures to form a national unity government without President Hosni Mubarak, a group official told DPA on Sunday. Although the Muslim Brotherhood is officially banned from running for elections for parliament, some movement members have presented candidacy for parliament as independents. Gamal [...]
Washington Post: CAIRO – The Egyptian military moved on multiple fronts Sunday to display its strength and consolidate support as factions within the government and on the street vied for control of this strategically vital nation at the heart of the Arab world. With pro-democracy demonstrators demanding the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak for a [...]
Washington (CNN) — A program that allows airports to replace government screeners with private screeners is being brought to a standstill, just a month after the Transportation Security Administration said it was “neutral” on the program. TSA chief John Pistole said Friday he has decided not to expand the program beyond the current 16 airports, [...]
