Mubarak Steps Down

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  Omar Abdullah Steps Down From Budgam Seat, Retains Ganderbal In Assembly

  Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah resigned from the Budgam assembly seat and retained the Ganderbal constituency, the National Conference's (NC) bastion, Pro-tem speaker Mubarak Gul announced in the House on Monday.

• Egypt's opposition gives President Mohamed Morsi 24 hours to quit

  Egypt's opposition today gave Islamist Mohamed Morsi a day to quit or face civil disobedience after deadly protests demanded the country's first democratically elected president step down after just a year in office.

• Egypt braced for protests as Mohamed Morsi stands ground

  Egypt faces a showdown in the streets after President Mohamed Morsi failed, in an address to the nation, to satisfy the demands of opponents who want the Islamist to step down after a year in office.

• Egypt simmers, protesters beaten up as violence enters Day 3

  Egypt's ruling military and the revolutionaries who demand they immediately step down battled for a third day in the streets on Sunday - and competed fiercely for the support of a broader public that has grown tired of turmoil since the fall of Hosni Mubarak 10 months ago.

• Arabs celebrate Hosni Mubarak's exit

  Celebrations erupted across West Asia on Friday after Hosni Mubarak stepped down as Egypt's president. From Beirut to Gaza, people rushed into the streets, handing out candy, setting off fireworks and shooting in the air.Even in Israel, which had watched the Egyptian protesters' uprising against Mubarak with concern, a former Cabinet minister said ...

• Hosni Mubarak steps down as President of Egypt

  An 18-day-old revolt led by the young people of Egypt ousted President Hosni Mubarak on Friday, shattering three decades of political stasis here and overturning the established order of the Arab world. Shouts of "God is great" erupted from Tahrir Square at twilight as Mr. Mubarak's vice president and long-time intelligence chief, Omar Suleiman, an...

• Egypt protesters mass for demonstrations

  Protesters enraged by Hosni Mubarak's latest refusal to step down streamed into Cairo's central square Friday and took positions outside key symbols of the hated regime, promising to expand their push to drive the Egyptian president out.The stand-off posed a major test for the military as protesters stepped up calls for the army to intervene agains...

• Egyptian minister denies Mubarak will step down

  State TV says Egypt's information minister has denied that President Hosni Mubarak will step down.The comment by Anas el-Fiqqi, in a written scroll on state television, comes ahead of an address by Mubarak to the nation. Announcements by the military that the demands of protesters calling for his immediate ouster would be met raised their expectati...

• Mubarak may not be able to step down soon: Clinton

  US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak might not be able to quit his post as early as being demanded by the protesters as the transition process will take some time to roll out.Clinton described Mubarak's assurance of not running for the presidency again and the dialogue on constitutional reform initiated in...

• Obama suggests Mubarak should step down now

  Just hours after President Hosni Mubarak declared Tuesday night that he would step down in September as modern Egypt's longest-serving leader, President Obama strongly suggested that Mr. Mubarak's concession was not enough, declaring that an "orderly transition must be meaningful, it must be peaceful, and it must begin now."While the meaning of the...