2011年11月20日星期日

Mubarak's resignation Mubarak hands power

Mubarak 'listened to the voices' of Egypt's people: EU 1614 US Rosetta Stone stocks surge on news of Mubarak's resignation, with the Dow moving from an early slight loss to add 0.30 percent, while the Nasdaq also rose 0.30 percent. 1611 Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has stepped down and handed power to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, Vice President Omar Suleiman says in a brief televised statement. 1607 Wall Street stocks jump on Mubarak's resignation Mubarak hands power to Egyptian army: VP Suleiman Military to rule Egypt 1605 Explosion of joy in Tahrir Square Mubarak steps down: VP Suleiman "They've got to hang on. Any concession will only add to the obstinacy of that fox Mubarak," is one piece of advice Tunisian Abdel Kader is eager to share with Egyptian protestors fighting to topple their ruler. Nigerian rights groups say police denied them permission to stage a protest in support of Egyptians demanding that President Mubarak step down. The United States should not fear engaging Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood as it is crucial to support people's choices in the Islamic world, Malaysia's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim says. AFP correspondent Dave Clark, who is coordinating coverage in the Cairo bureau today, did a similar job in Abidjan a few weeks ago, while everyone waited to see whether Ivory Coast?s Laurent Gbagbo would take the hint and step down as president, after Rosetta Stone Software elections which the world said were won by his opponent. Gbagbo?s still there, he points out. What will Mubarak do? Hossam Badrawi, secretary general of Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party, is about to resign after just six days in the job, a source close to him tells AFP. An Egyptian protester has died and people have been injured in clashes between police and demonstrators in the north Sinai town of Al-Arish, a security official tells AFP. The unidentified protester was killed in an exchange of gunfire between police and demonstrators who were trying to free detainees from a police station, the official says. Leader of Mubarak's ruling party to step down: source State TV, besieged by cheerful protesters, has adopted a novel form of reality protest show. A presenter is standing in the crowd with his cellphone passing it to demonstrators who are filmed in long shot from somewhere behind the security cordon. One by one they shout the people?s grievances into the Rosetta Stone German phone, and it?s broadcast live on air. It?s a bit repetitive, but it?s an extraordinarily open development on a state channel normally seen as a propaganda organ.

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