Omar Suleiman

• Egypt presidential race narrowed to 13 candidates

  Egypt's presidential race is boiling down to a contest between Hosni Mubarak's former foreign minister and two Islamists with strong bases of support after the election commission released the final list of 13 candidates on Thursday. In the past few weeks, the commission disqualified 10 of the 23 hopefuls who had initially registered for the May 23...

• Mubarak knew of 'every bullet fired', says former spy chief

  Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, charged with murder, "had complete knowledge of every bullet fired" at protesters, according to damning testimony by his former spy chief published in a state newspaper on Thursday.The Al-Akhbar daily reported that prosecutors partly relied on testimony provided by Omar Suleiman, the former head of intellige...

• 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...

• Military caught between Mubarak and protesters

  Even as pro-democracy demonstrations in Cairo have riveted the world's attention for 17 days, the Egyptian military has managed the crisis with seeming finesse, winning over street protesters, quietly consolidating its domination of top government posts and sidelining potential rivals for leadership, notably President Hosni Mubarak's son Gamal. The...

• Defiant Mubarak refuses to quit; reports say he left Egypt

  A defiant President Hosni Mubarak today refused to step down immediately under any  outside diktat and asserted that he will bow out only by September in a peaceful transition of power.Confounding reports that he was planning to hand over power to Vice President Omar Suleiman, a grim-looking 82-year-old Mubarak in a televised address said, "I ...

• Britain calls for 'urgent' Egypt transition

  British Foreign Secretary William Hague has called for an "urgent but orderly transition" inEgypt after President Hosni Mubarak refused to stand down during a speech to the nation."We're studying very closely what the President and the Vice President of Egypt have said," Hague said in a Foreign Office statement."All we want in the UK is for them to...

• Clearly explain steps that lead to democracy: Obama to Egypt

  US President Barack Obama has asked Egypt to explain in "clear" and "unambiguous" language the "step by step" process that will lead to democracy in the country, after its President Hosni Mubarak today refused to step down from power.Expressing his disappointment over the steps announced by Mubarak, in which he delegated some of his powers to Vice ...

• US pulls up Suleiman for comments on Egypt's democracy

  US has termed as "unhelpful" comments by Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman that Cairo was not yet ready for democracy and it was not the opportune moment to lift the 30-year-old emergency laws."Vice President Suleiman made some particularly unhelpful comments about Egypt not being ready for democracy, about not seeing a lift of the emergency la...

• Reports say Egyptian Vice President survives assassination bid

  A failed assassination bid against Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman has left two of his bodyguards dead, according to a media report.The incident was reported by Fox News which said, "Such an attempt on the life of Omar Suleiman would mark an alarming turn in the uprising against the government of President Hosni Mubarak, who only recently nam...

• Egypt's president names deputy for 1st time

  Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak named a vice president on Saturday for the first time since coming to power nearly 30 years ago. It was a clear step toward setting up a successor in the midst of the biggest challenge ever to his rule from tens of thousands of anti-government protesters.Mubarak named his intelligence chief of nearly two decades and...