Hundreds of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip rallied in solidarity with the uprising in Egypt. Marchers carried banners reading “People want the regime out” and “Down with Hosni Mubarak.”
Fighting between protesters and government loyalists raged into a second day in Egypt, with the opposition pledging to go ahead with a massive “departure day” march tomorrow.
Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh, facing growing demands that he step down, said that he will drop constitutional changes that would allow him to be president for life.
A Chinese court ruled that the death of a village chief crushed by a truck was an accident—sparking outrage from supporters, who insist he was murdered for his protests over land seizures.
Russian authorities say the deadly Moscow airport blast was masterminded from Dagestan—as terror continues within Dagestan itself, winning few international headlines.
The Afghanistan Rights Monitor finds that 2010 was the deadliest year for civilians in the country since the US-led invasion of 2001, with more than 2,400 non-combatants killed.
An Italian court convicted former Guantánamo Bay detainee Mohamed Ben Riadh Nasri on terror charges and sentenced the Tunisian man to six years in prison.
Government supporters—some on horses and camels and armed with whips—charged into the ranks of opposition protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, sparking hours of street battles.
Several hundred thousand filled Cairo’s Tahrir Square in the biggest outpouring yet demanding the fall of Hosni Mubarak. Protesters have given Mubarak until Friday to leave the country.
Initial media reports that protesters had burned down an ancient synagogue in the Tunisian city of Gabes were later refuted, with accusations of provocation by ex-regime members.
Authorities in both the West Bank and Gaza shut down Egypt solidarity rallies, as Jordan announced a new government and “day of rage” protests are called for Yemen and Syria.
Student strikers at the University of Puerto Rico continued using mass civil disobedience to push their demand that the university drop an $800 tuition surcharge, with campuses occupied.
