Egypt defense minister threatens people

Female anti-government protesters walk past an Egyptian Army tank at the demonstration in Tahrir square in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011. Egyptian Defense Minister Mohamed Hussein Tantawi has warned the anti-government protesters against defying curfew as people continue to stay out. Anti-government protesters streamed the streets in the sixth day of demonstrations on [...]

Shot in the head: Egyptian police gunned down an unarmed protester

By Daily Mail Reporter 28th January 2011 At least 870 people injured in day of clashes in Egyptian capital State TV announces 6pm to 7am curfew in Cairo, Alexandria and Suez Mubarak asks army to help police deal with protests Protester in Suez killed in clashes, say witnesses Total blackout on internet access and text [...]

Chaos in Egypt triggers international responses, evacuations

Egyptians take part in a protest in Cairo, capital of Egypt, Jan. 30, 2011. Anti-government protests persisted for the sixth day across Egypt on Sunday as demonstrators demanded the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. The curfew ordered by the Egyptian government, previously from 4 p.m. to 8 a.m., now runs from 3 p.m. (1300 GMT) [...]

Egypt instigates media blackout, police target journalists

Plainclothes police chase what Reuters says is unidentified foreign journalist today in Cairo. (Reuters /Goran Tomasevic ) New York, January 28, 2011 Egyptian authorities have taken unprecedented measures to block media coverage of widespread protests against the government, which are on their fourth day. CPJ condemns Cairo’s news blackout and calls for authorities to immediately [...]

Reports of ‘massacre’ in Suez as protests in Egypt strengthen

By Daniel Tencer Wednesday, January 26th, 2011 Anti-government protests in Egypt moved into their third day early Thursday, with unconfirmed reports of police “massacres” of civilians in the port city of Suez. In Cairo, protesters “played cat and mouse with police” into the early hours of Thursday, Reuters reported. Opposition groups reported on their websites [...]

Ivory Coast: Testing Ground For U.S.-Backed African Standby/Imperialist Forc

Stop NATO January 23, 2011 Ivory Coast: Testing Ground For U.S.-Backed African Standby Force Rick Rozoff The announcements of presidential election results last month in West Africa and Eastern Europe have served as the pretext for the United States and its allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union to again embark [...]

What Revolution?: Tunisian police clash with protesters

Tunisian police have clashed with hundreds of protesters camping out in front of the office of the ousted dictator’s right hand man. Wednesday January 26th Several people were injured in capital Tunis after police fired tear gas at demonstrators who tried to force a police barrier. The protesters demanded that interim Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi [...]

More troops lost to suicide than combat

By John Donnelly For the second year in a row, the U.S. military has lost more troops to suicide than it has to combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. The reasons are complicated and the accounting uncertain — for instance, should returning soldiers who take their own lives after being mustered out be included? But the [...]

Swedish government agency knew in advance about bomb attack

19th January 2011 A Swedish government employee allegedly knew ahead of time about last month’s suicide bomb attack in Stockholm, but failed to inform Swedish security service Säpo, according to new media reports. Citing several sources with knowledge of the ongoing investigation of the bomb attacks carried out by Taimour Abdulwahab, Swedish tabloid Expressen reported [...]

Pakistan: Thousands protest against US drone attacks

Activists of the Pakistani Islamic party Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) shout slogans during an anti-US protest rally in Peshawar on January 23, 2011 PressTv Sun Jan 23, 2011 More than 10,000 people have held an anti-US demonstration in northwestern Pakistan to protest civilian killings by non-UN-sanctioned US drone attacks. The Sunday protest comes while at least 13 [...]