Egypt News Today

Egypt News Today, Obama is now facing one of the most delicate balancing acts in foreign policy – facing an allied nation in crisis in the Middle East no less.

As he watches the violent demonstrations in Egypt, Obama wants to restore democracy, and not be seen as supporting authoritarianism.

On the other hand, the President does not be regarded as helping to break a government – especially if his replacement is being anti-American, as happened in Iran in the 1970s.

“The United States will continue to defend the rights of the Egyptian people, and work with their government, seeking a more just, freer, and more hope,” Obama said Friday.

This being the Middle East, there is much at stake include peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, the U.S. efforts to combat t*rror*sm, the peace process in the Middle East, and the impact that high prices oil might have on the U.S. economy.

Riots in Egypt upset Wall Street, which began to worry about oil supplies moving through the Suez Canal and the stability of other Arab governments.
At the time of the sale is complete, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 166.13 points to close at 11,823.70, the first decline in three digits of the year.

The selloff has been at least a short-term recovery of an upward rise that pushed the Dow above 12,000 level this week when both interday trading. Although she never closed more than 12,000, it reached its highest level since June 2008.

On Friday, the market has also considered the Government’s report on fourth quarter GDP to be positive. He showed the economy grew at an annual rate of 3.2 percent compared to a rate of 2.6 percent in the third quarter. Consumer spending grew at a rate of 4.4 percent per year, better than expected. The major impediment to the economy of public spending, which fell, and a slowdown in the growth rate of inventory accumulation.

Despite the economic news, Dickson said he would not be surprising to see the hide market in the coming days. “It can be seen extending down to 3 or 4 percent, which brings up a more normal if it happens,” he said. “What is happening in Egypt is one of those things where you just have to see what happens in other countries. ”

U.S. Senator John Kerry said Saturday that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to address the concerns of its citizens and the problems they have, like the demonstrations in this country have been observed at the World Economic Forum.

“I think we need to see how things develop today, and obviously the key here is for President Mubarak to meet the needs of its people in a way that is more directly related to their frustration, much more than apparently yesterday’s speech managed to do it, “the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee told the Associated Press on Saturday on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the Forum.

“I think he’s talking more to the real issues that people feel,” the Massachusetts Democrat said. “Rejecting the government does not talk about some of these challenges.”

Kerry’s comments came just minutes after the Egyptian state television said that the Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif has resigned Learn Mubarak.

Salil Shetty, head of Amnesty International, told AP that Mubarak’s decision to fire his Cabinet would not suppress anti-government protests that rocked the country for five days.

“The idea of changing your wardrobe is a bit of a joke. People are very clear that they want fundamental change, constitutional change,” he said.

Cairo Egypt

Cairo Egypt, (CNN) – Egypt’s web infrastructure is more advanced than Iran, “said Labovitz. However, the network of Egypt has only about 10 companies that control key infrastructure that prevents the country connected to a power nationally imposed by the government as possible, “he said.

Before ending Thursday of apparently coordinated Internet services, access to twitter and Facebook in Egypt became uneven.

These services have played a major role in the events in Tunisia and in Iran and for dissidents in China. They started to explode along with street demonstrations.

“We are aware of reports of service interruptions and have seen a drop in traffic from Egypt this morning,” a Facebook spokeswoman said Thursday.

Facebook refers to requests for comment Herdict.org, a project of the University of Harvard chronic potential censorship of the Web worldwide.

The tool reports a significant spike in recent days in reports that the two Egyptians were inaccessible Facebook and Twitter. Herdict reports of any kind in Egypt have slowed considerably on Friday, probably due to residents not being able to access all Web sites following the stop.

“Egypt continues to block Twitter and traffic was greatly diminished,” said Wednesday a global message of representatives for the microblogging site.

The Egyptian government has said publicly that he is not censoring websites.

Egyptian protests are intended to challenge the lack of basic amenities, food affordable to a decent standard of living. The goal is to Hosni Mubarak, leader 82-year-old nation.

When social media sites were blocked, many in Egypt have found their way around it using software called proxies.

This remains a common practice for people in China trying to circumvent the government’s “great wall” blocking of certain Web services. Proxies may mislead Internet service providers and routing designed to block certain cities or countries into believing that a person is located elsewhere.

(AP) – Egypt’s national carrier, on Friday temporarily suspended its flights from the capital, while international airlines scrambled to adjust their schedules to a curfew imposed by the government that the mounting protests Street presented the government of President Hosni Mubarak with its most serious challenge ever.

Moreover, the United States warned its citizens against nonessential travel to Egypt and warned the Americans already in the country to stay put. The warning came hours after anti-government protests Friday spiral out of control, forcing the deployment of the army that the Egyptian state television said would work with police to enforce the hours 6 to 7 hours curfew and restore order.

EgyptAir said he was suspending his departure from Cairo for 12 hours from 21 hours, a measure related to the curfew is in effect 6:00 p.m. to 7:00

The curfew introduced international airlines with a problem. Many flights arrive in Cairo in the late evening or in the hours before dawn. Several international airlines have said they were working to postpone their flights to ensure that their passengers arrived outside the curfew.

An official at the Cairo International Airport said some foreign airlines had canceled or diverted flights scheduled to arrive Friday night, including Air France. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid violating the instructions on how to contact the media.

Air France said that its flight once a day in Cairo was diverted to Beirut and Cairo would continue on Saturday morning. The company said Saturday his flight was canceled while the company attempted to alter its calendar.

British Airways also said it was trying to change its schedule of flights to Cairo, but has yet to cancel any trips. Flights to the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh remained unchanged, the company said.

Egypt, Obama

Egypt, (AFP) – The administration of President Barack Obama on Friday expressed “deep concern” by the unrest in the U.S. ally Egypt has urged Cairo to prevent its security forces and embark on immediate reform.

The wave of popular anger that has produced a fourth day of violent mass protests has riveted the attention of the president, who is kept informed of events of each day of multiple briefings, the White House.

Instead of everyday memory of President, Obama received a 40-minute presentation on the situation in Egypt’s National Security Advisor Tom Donilon and other members of his national security team, the White House press secretary, Tommy Vietor said.

They included John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and the fight against t*rror*sm, and Robert Cardillo, deputy director of national intelligence for the integration of intelligence.

And as the U.S. television networks showed street brawls and burning buildings in Cairo, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has expressed concern about events in a country that is an ally of U.S. diplomacy Peace in the Middle East and the fight against t*rror*sm.

“We are deeply concerned about the use of violence by Egyptian police and security forces against demonstrators and we urge the Egyptian government to do everything in his power to prevent the security forces,” Clinton said.

“At the same time, protesters should also refrain from violence and to express themselves peacefully,” the chief U.S. diplomat.

“We urge the Egyptian authorities to allow peaceful demonstrations and to reverse the unprecedented measures taken to cut communications,” she added.

The protest movement in Egypt has mobilized the youth and the middle classes using the Internet and social networks in a challenge for the authorities that saw two Swedish sites Twitter and video-streaming Bambuser blocked.

Dire events “underline that there are deep grievances in Egyptian society” that cannot be resolved through violence; it has the strongest demand yet public policy changes and others.

“As partners, we firmly believe that the Egyptian government should immediately engage with the Egyptian people in the implementation of necessary economic reforms, political and social,” she said.

Recalling a speech she gave in Qatar two weeks ago, just as avant-garde events in Tunisia were reaching a crescendo, “Clinton said Arab leaders should” to see civil society as a partner and not as a threat. ”

Within hours of that speech in Doha, the Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali had fled the country for Saudi Arabia.

Before the protests, U.S. officials had pushed for reform in the wings, but have been criticized for not taking a stronger stance in public, especially in the wake of parliamentary elections in Egypt last November.

Washington has also invested tens of millions of dollars in pro-democracy organizations in Egypt to the chagrin of President Mubarak, according to diplomatic cables obtained by Wikileaks and published by a Norwegian newspaper Friday.

Obama, Robert Gibbs, the press secretary earlier in the balance with the reaction most critical of the White House still in turmoil.

“Very concerned about the violence in Egypt,” Gibbs wrote about the microblogging site Twitter.

– The government must respect the rights of the Egyptian people & run on social networks and the Internet. ”

The State Department also had its say.

“The events in Egypt are of deep concern,” department spokesman Philip Crowley said on Twitter, the latest in a wave of those messages.

Contrary to the concerns expressed, on Friday, Clinton on Tuesday urged all parties to “exercise restraint” during the protests but said the U.S. believes that the Egyptian government is stable.

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