Egypt is holding a second day of runoff elections for the national parliament, with rival Islamist parties engaging in increasingly heated competition for votes in the country’s two largest cities and seven other provinces. Voting for the 52 individual seats in Cairo, Alexandria and the other provinces began Monday and was due to end Tuesday. [...]
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Egyptians Rally Demanding Military Cede Power
With a little more than a week before Egypt’s first post-revolution elections, demonstrators turned out en masse to protest what they say is the military’s attempt to prolong its “temporary” powers. A sea of Islamists, secularists, conservatives and liberals converged on Cairo’s Tahrir square Friday, demanding the military cede power in the coming months. [...]