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Underground Metro passengers spontaneous protest

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Activist Akram el-Irani was on an adventure in the Underground Metro today. Around 5:30pm, and after a 15-minute stop at Saad Zaghloul Station, the metro started speeding, refusing to stop for successive nine stations, and only came to halt somewhere between Hammat el-Qobba and Saraya el-Qobba Stations, close to the Mukhabarat and the Presidential Palace.

The passengers jumped out of the carriages, and started what Akram described as a spontaneous demo, criticizing the railway authorities, the government, and the president himself.

Gaza takeover a coup, says Hosni

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Look who’s talking about legitimacy?!

The takeover of Gaza by Hamas was a “coup against legitimacy” according to the president of Egypt.
The comments came on Saturday, two days before Hosni Mubarak hosts a regional summit that is seen as an attempt to isolate the group.
Pledging his support for Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president and Fatah leader, Mubarak told senior members of his National Democratic Party: “We follow closely the consequences of the coup against the Palestinian legitimacy [in Gaza] and the damage that it has caused to the Palestinian people.
“We regret shedding Palestinian blood by Palestinian hands in clashes that crossed all the red lines.”

Via Reuters