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Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians are their angry protests against the rule of President Hosni Mubarak. Al Jazeera news said the could be the biggest -democracy demonstrations in Egyptian history. Riot police are out in and fighting protestors with their batons and gas. One young woman is reported to have been killed after being on the head by a tear-gas canister. In Suez, demonstrators took over the police station and protestors jailed in the past 48 hours. The police have control of the city. Forty thousand people in Mansoura, north of Cairo, are reported to have raided and destroyed the party’s headquarters. Similar scenes are happening all over the country.

Egypt’s leaders have done their to stop people communicating with each other. At midnight, Thursday, the government down Egypt’s Internet. Authorities are refusing to Arab and non-Arab journalists at Egypt’s international airport and the police are also to stop journalists filming the unrest. They CNN cameras and shut down Al Jazeera’s television in Egypt of the protests. Opposition leader Mohamed El-Baradei is in a mosque by riot police. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on Egypt’s leaders to to their people. Egyptians are calling for change and are carrying banners that say, “We hate you Mubarak”.

 

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