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Unprecedented anti-government protests rock Egypt - Yahoo! News
Egypt police, protesters clash for second day - Yahoo! News
Egypt protesters clash for 2nd day with police - Yahoo! News
It looks that pro-American regime in Egypt has serious problem.
Police fought with thousands of Egyptians who defied a government ban on Wednesday to protest against President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year-old rule, firing rubber bullets and tear gas and dragging away demonstrators.
Protesters burned tires and hurled stones at police as groups gathered at different parts of the capital Cairo. Demonstrators also clashed in other cities around Egypt. In Suez, east of Cairo, protesters torched a government building.
The scenes were unprecedented in the country, one of the United States' closest Middle East allies, and follow the overthrow two weeks ago of another long-serving Arab strongman, Tunisian leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, in a popular revolt.
Egypt police, protesters clash for second day - Yahoo! News
The interior ministry had banned all further demonstrations and promised a crackdown after thousands turned out on Tuesday, and security officials said some 700 people had been arrested over two days.
The White House called for the ban to be lifted, and Amnesty International condemned what it called an excessive police response and called for restraint.
Police used water cannons and tear gas against demonstrators in a main central Cairo thoroughfare. And they fired rubber bullets as 500-600 people took to the streets in the port city of Suez to demand Mubarak's ouster.
Dozens were arrested in the Mediterranean port of Alexandria as they tried to reach a sea-front square to hold a second day of protests, witnesses said.
The one-sentence chant ringing out at every demonstration has summed up the demand from the street: "The people want the ouster of the regime."
Egypt protesters clash for 2nd day with police - Yahoo! News
"Down, down Hosni Mubarak," chanted the crowd. "Oh, people, join us or you will be next."
There were protests in at least three other locations across Egypt.
At least eight journalists have been arrested in the troubles. Police arrested an Associated Press Television News cameraman and his assistant early Wednesday while they were filming clashes in Cairo. An AP photographer was beaten by a policeman and had his cheekbone fractured while shooting demonstrations late Tuesday.
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In Washington, White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs would not say whether President Hosni Mubarak, the target of demonstrators' anger and a close U.S. ally, still has the Obama administration's support. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the government should allow peaceful protests instead of cracking down.
It looks that pro-American regime in Egypt has serious problem.