Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's tottering regime is bracing for the toughest challenge yet as thousands of protesters demanding his ouster barreled towards main city centers on Tuesday as part of the planned March of a Million.
Reports are emerging that a Google executive has gone missing in Egypt.
The unrest rolling across in the Middle East will likely not spare Morocco, said a relative of King Mohammed VI in an interview published Monday.
Egypt is becoming a test case for the Internet going dark, with only one of its main service providers operating. But the lack of communications isn't stopping the protests.
Swirling turmoil in Egypt will likely spread to other regions of the world and may impart a negative effect on economic growth and contribute to higher consumer prices, according to Nouriel Roubini, chairman of Roubini Global Economics.
A coalition of groups on Monday has called for a march of 1 million protesters in Cairo on Tuesday. It is unclear what the groups' agenda will be, although many of the protesters in the streets over the last several days have been calling for the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak.
The most famous Egyptian in the world, actor Omar Sharif, well known for starring in film classics such as Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Ariabia, told a French radio station this morning that Mubarak should go.
The violent protests in Egypt could deal a major blow to the country’s vital tourism industry, a development that could be economically crushing to the already riot-ravaged country.
Protests in Egypt sparked a sell-off in Apache Corp. (NYSE: APA) shares as investors feared disruption in operations, said an analyst at RBC Capital Markets.
Israel, which has been at peace with Egypt since 1979, has expressed its support for the beleaguered regime of President Hosni Mubarak, while its allies in Europe and the U.S. have more aggressively pushed Mubarak to enact reforms in the face of a massive uprising.
Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based Arabic news network which has already been shut down in Egypt, said six of its English-speaking journalists have been arrested in Egypt, amidst continuing unrest in the country.
The Egyptian government has abruptly shut down Internet, the main access point that can help people communicate with the outside world. But all is not lost as a few hackers have come across a solution to the nationwide shutdown.
The army is firing heavy machine guns in the streets of Alexandria, Egypt, reported CNN on TV.
Has Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak given shoot-to-kill orders to the army in a desperate attempt to face down the swelling anti-government protests?
Iran's Press TV claimed on Monday Israel is giving weapons to Egypt to prop up the Hosni Mubarak regime which is engulfed in crisis and appearing to inch towards doom as violent popular protests gained momentum.
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
Thousands of prisoners have reportedly escaped from Egyptian jails as the crisis deepens.