By Leila Fadel Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, January 30, 2011; 12:14 AM CAIRO – In a dusty alleyway in downtown Cairo, Gamal Mohammed Manshawi held out a dirty plastic bag Saturday afternoon. Inside were smashed gas canisters and the casings of rubber bullets that he said Egyptian police had fired at anti-government demonstrators. “You [...]

By DAVID E. SANGER and HELENE COOPER Published: January 29, 2011 WASHINGTON — President Obama’s decision to stop short, at least for now, of calling for Hosni Mubarak’s resignation was driven by the administration’s concern that it could lose all leverage over the Egyptian president, and because it feared creating a power vacuum inside the [...]

Jan 29, 2011 Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak remains the lifeblood of the demonstrators, who still number in the tens of thousands in downtown Cairo and in other major cities, albeit on a lesser scale. After being overwhelmed in the Jan. 28 Day of Rage protests, Egypt’s internal security forces — with the anti-riot paramilitaries of [...]

Jan 29, 2011 The Egyptian police are no longer patrolling the Rafah border crossing into Gaza. Hamas armed men are entering into Egypt and are closely collaborating with the MB. The MB has fully engaged itself in the demonstrations, and they are unsatisfied with the dismissal of the Cabinet. They are insisting on a new [...]

By Kenneth Bandler Published January 29, 2011 FoxNews.com As popular rebellions spread across the Arab world, one fact has become clear. The Arab-Israeli conflict is not the hub of the region’s problems. For too long authoritarian Arab rulers have deflected attention away from their internal challenges, perpetuating the myth that corruption, soaring food prices and [...]

Published January 29, 2011 Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands –  The Dutch government froze official contacts with Iran on Saturday to protest the hanging of a Dutch-Iranian woman, the Foreign Ministry said. Iranian Ambassador Gharib Abadi was informed of the sanctions after he confirmed reports that Zahra Bahrami, 45, was executed in Tehran Saturday. His [...]

Published January 30, 2011 Associated Press JUBA, Sudan –  Southern Sudan’s referendum commission said Sunday that more than 99 percent of voters in the south opted to secede from the country’s north in a vote held earlier this month. The announcement drew cheers from a crowd of thousands that gathered in Juba, the dusty capital [...]

Published January 30, 2011 FoxNews.com The U.S. Embassy is recommending Americans in Egypt consider leaving the country as soon as possible. The Sunday morning travel warning says U.S. citizens should avoid travel to Egypt because of unrest, violence, and ongoing demonstrations against President Hosni Mubarak’s government. The U.S. was offering evacuation flights to Europe for [...]

By HAMZA HENDAWI and MAGGIE MICHAEL Associated Press CAIRO January 30, 2011 (AP) Armed gangs free Muslim militants in prison breaks across Egypt; Americans urged to leave Gangs of armed men attacked at least four jails across Egypt before dawn Sunday, helping to free hundreds of Muslim militants and thousands of other inmates as police [...]

By CRIS BARRISH and ESTEBAN PARRA • The News Journal • January 28, 2011 Toxicology “didn’t play a role” in his death, officials said. Homicide victim John P. Wheeler III, a former Pentagon official and presidential aide whose body was discovered Dec. 31 in a Wilmington landfill, was beaten to death in an assault, the [...]