Feb 11 Margaret Warner: ‘A Wild Scene’ in Cairo’s Streets By News Desk Margaret Warner and her crew have spent much of the past two days in the streets of Cairo, speaking with Egyptians about the ongoing protests there. She spoke by phone with Kwame Holman Friday about the sights and sounds in… Continue reading
Feb 11 Mubarak Steps Down; Twitter, Internet Erupt With Responses [View the story "Mubarak Steps Down and Twitter, Internet, Erupt" on Storify]… Continue reading
Feb 11 Timeline: Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s President for Three Decades, Resigns By Larisa Epatko One of the Arab world's longest-serving leaders, Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, stepped down Friday after 18 days of protests that continued to gain steam until the opposition's No. 1 demand -- his departure -- was met. Continue reading
Feb 11 Watch Live: Protesters in Tahrir Square Crowds in Cairo's Tahrir Square react to the news that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has stepped… Continue reading
Feb 11 Pakistan: U.S. Employee Committed Murder, Chinese Activist Beaten Officials in Pakistan say Raymond Allen Davis, a U.S. consulate employee committed murder when he shot two Pakistanis in Lahore in January. The incident has caused friction between the allies; the United States claims he shot the two… Continue reading
Feb 10 Watch Mubarak Defies Resignation Anticipation, Protesters Pledge Big Crowds Friday Labor strikes spread throughout Egypt as President Hosni Mubarak handed over some powers to Vice President Omar Suleiman but refused to step down until the fall -- further frustrating masses of protesters in Cairo. Jeffrey Brown reports. Continue watching
Feb 10 Watch Protesters Look to Step Up Pressure on Mubarak as Concerns of Violence Resurface From Cairo, Margaret Warner reports on the day's protests in Tahrir Square and reactions to President Hosni Mubarak's announcement that he's handing over some powers to Vice President Omar Suleiman, but not resigning immediately as many had expected. Continue watching
Feb 10 Watch After ‘Vague’ Mubarak Speech, What’s Ahead for Him, VP, Army? Jeffrey Brown speaks with Georgetown University's Samer Shehata and Mary-Jane Deeb of the Library of Congress about the speeches by Egyptian President Mubarak and Vice President Suleiman, and what's ahead in Egypt's unrest and transfer of political power. Continue watching
Feb 10 Watch Amid Combustible Atmosphere in Egypt, ‘There Could Be a Showdown’ Jim Lehrer speaks with two former presidential national security advisers about the impact of Egyptian President Mubarak's speech and continuing political unrest on U.S.-Egypt relations. Stephen Hadley served under President George W. Bush, and Zbigniew Brzezinski held the post in… Continue watching
Feb 10 Watch News Wrap: Demonstrators in Iraq Demand End to Corruption, Prisoner Abuse In other news Thursday, more than 3,000 Iraqis protested prisoner abuse and court-system corruption in the streets of Baghdad. The demonstrations were one of the biggest since political unrest began in Egypt and Tunisia. In northwestern Pakistan, a suicide bomber… Continue watching