Supporters of Egypt’s ousted Islamist president are vowing to defy a state of emergency with new protests today, the day after marches in Cairo devolved into the fiercest street battles that the capital has seen in more than two years.

Islamist protests descended into a bloodbath across Egypt yesterday, with around 60 killed in Cairo alone on a “Day of Rage” called by followers of ousted president Mohamed Morsi to denounce a crackdown by the army-backed government.

At least 37 people have died across Egypt as tens of thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters clashed with vigilante residents in the fiercest street battles to engulf Cairo since the country’s Arab Spring uprising.

Thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters have taken to the streets in several parts of Cairo and elsewhere in Egypt in defiance of the military-imposed state of emergency.

A former leading Bahraini politician has claimed there are “fears we could see some casualties” during the course of this weekend’s Formula One grand prix.

Police and anti-government protesters were again involved in a running battle on the outskirts of Bahraini capital Manama just days ahead of this weekend’s Formula One grand prix.

Bernie Ecclestone sees no reason for this season’s Bahrain Grand Prix not to go ahead despite violence flaring again on the island kingdom.

THE global “Day of Rage” against the world’s financial system won some limited sympathy from political and economic leaders yesterday, after protests that were peaceful everywhere but Italy.

SAUDI ARABIAN activists are planning to hold a “Day of Rage” today to protest the Saudi royal family’s rule in the Kingdom.

THOUSANDS marched on government buildings and clashed with security forces in cities across Iraq yesterday, in the largest and most violent anti-government protests here since political unrest began spreading in the Arab world several weeks ago.

At least 11 people have been killed and dozens injured in a day of violent clashes across Iraq between security forces and demonstrators.

Security forces have killed five people in northern Iraq as thousands of protesters rallied in cities across the country for a “Day of Rage.”

Demonstrators are converging on Baghdad’s Liberation Square as part of an anti-government rally dubbed the “Day of Rage”.

Human Rights Watch has said their sources have put the death toll from the violence in Libya yesterday and on Wednesday at 24.

UNREST spread across the Middle East and North Africa yesterday as Bahrain launched a swift military crackdown on anti-government protesters and clashes were reported in Libya and Yemen.

ANTI-GOVERNMENT protesters clashed with police who were blocking them from marching to Yemen’s presidential palace in Sanaa yesterday.

YEMENI President Ali Abdullah Saleh, eyeing protests that threaten to topple Egypt’s long-time ruler, indicated yesterday he would leave office when his current term ends in 2013, after three decades in power.

THOUSANDS of anti-government protesters inspired by the Tunisian revolution clashed with riot police in the centre of Cairo yesterday demanding the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak.

Thousands of anti-government protesters inspired by the Tunisian revolution clashed with riot police in the centre of Cairo today demanding the overthrow of president Hosni Mubarak.