U.S News & World Report
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Mubarak Resigns as President of Egypt
When her bosses at the state-run Nile News channel told Soha al-Naqqash to report that the chaotic streets of the country’s largest cities were calm, she resigned rather than lie on the air. Last week, Shahira Amin, deputy head of the network, quit for similar reasons. Those resignations were illustrative of the antigovernment protest...
Egypt Revolt Part of a Long History of Uprisings
In the twenty years since the end of the Cold War, the world has seen a host of popular uprisings, coup d’états, and other challenges to governments from Indonesia, to Venezuela, to Egypt.