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Brent oil futures climbed near $100 a barrel and Asian stocks fell on Monday, hurt by fears that deadly protests in Egypt may foment unrest throughout the Middle East and choke oil supplies, accelerating a move out of riskier assets.

Brent crude futures climbed near $100 a barrel on Monday and Asian stocks fell, hit by fears of unrest throughout the Middle East sparked by deadly protests in Egypt.

If ministers and diplomats have learned a single lesson from the WikiLeaks saga, it is this: write nothing down.

Egyptian protests are not the typical haves vs. have-nots conflicts, said Dr. Ian Lustick, a well-known political science professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi finds himself in a potentially dangerous predicament.

The ruling elite of Syria are likely monitoring the cataclysmic events in Egypt with both astonishment and fear

President Barack Obama no longer backs Hosni Mubarak's regime in Egypt, according to a White House statement released on Sunday.

Leading Egyptian opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei, who has joined the anti-government protestors in Cairo, is urging the United States to pressure President Hosni Mubarak to resign.

The man named as the new vice-president of Egypt and now likely successor to President Hosni Mubarak is a long-time trusted associate of Mubarak

Fundamentals and nasty surprises are on investors minds heading into February, with big tests in the coming week about jobs and inflation and increasing worries over Egypt and its region.

The tone of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has changed visibly on Sunday in her interview on the five morning TV news shows before leaving for Haiti. Stressing elections as a way out of the current impasse in Egypt, she said democracy is in the best interest of everyone, including the current government.

U.S. stocks may struggle to return to firmer footing this week if anti-government riots in Egypt destabilize the Middle East, keeping investors on edge.

Thousands of prisoners have reportedly escaped from Egyptian jails as the crisis deepens.

China blocked the word Egypt from micro-blog searches in a sign that the Chinese government is concerned that protests calling for political reform in the country could spill into China's internet space.

U.S. stocks may struggle to return to firmer footing next week if anti-government riots in Egypt destabilize the Middle East, keeping investors on edge.

The Egyptian governments plans to cut off all the services that provides communication via e-mail, text messages, Twitter, BlackBerry service, Facebook, cell phones and blocking ISP has succeeded to some extent.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak may have fled to his home in Sharm el-Sheikh on Saturday as flames and riots engulfed the capital city of Cairo, according to various world media reports.

Thousands of demonstrators revolted on the streets of Egypt since Friday demanding an end to the decade-long dictatorship of the Mubarak regime.

The mass anti-government protests in Egypt took a toll on Cairo’s Egyptian Museum that houses the world's largest collection of Pharaoh-era antiquities, when protesters shattered heads of two mummies and damaged about ten small artifacts on Saturday.

The death toll in Egypt rose by as much as over 100 by Saturday, as anti-government protests extended for the fifth day in an attempt to pressure President Hosni Mubarak to step down.

Egyptian laborers who toil in the popular resort of Sharm-el-Sheikh believe that their president Hosni Mubarak is hiding there after having escaped angry rioters in the capital Cairo.