Nationalist supporters of Russian president Vladimir Putin brought together controversial far-right politicians from across Europe yesterday to demonstrate international support for Russia and weaken EU commitment to sanctions imposed on Russia over its role in Ukraine.

Cameron rebukes MP for Putin tweet

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition suffered a new blow as Germany’s main opposition parties celebrated gains in a state election.

An Egyptian court ordered the dissolving of the country’s former ruling party and the confiscation of its assets today, meeting a major demand of the protest movement that ousted President Hosni Mubarak.

Egypt’s new prime minister has vowed before thousands of demonstrators in Cairo to do everything he can to meet their demands for political change.

A constitutional reform panel recommended opening Egypt’s presidential elections to competition and imposing a two-term limit on future presidents – a dramatic shift from a system that allowed the ousted Hosni Mubarak to rule for three decades.

Egypt's embattled government tried to buy its way back into favour with a 15% pay rise for State employees today.

Thousands of protesters were defiantly continuing their vigil in central Cairo today despite government efforts to defuse the political crisis.

The top leadership body of Egypt’s ruling party resigned today, including the president’s son, but the regime appeared to be digging in its heels.

SUPPORTERS of President Hosni Mubarak charged into Cairo’s central square on horseback and camels brandishing whips.

A COALITION of opposition groups called for a million people to take to Cairo’s streets today to demand the removal of President Hosni Mubarak, the clearest sign yet that a unified leadership was trying to emerge for Egypt’s powerful but disparate protest movement.

EGYPT’S military deployed on the streets of Cairo to enforce a night-time curfew as the sun set yesterday on a day of rioting and chaos that amounted to the biggest challenge ever to authoritarian President Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year regime.

There are reports that the headquarters of the ruling National Democratic Party have been set on fire in Cairo as protestors stay out on the streets despite a curfew.

Thousands of Egyptians have vented their rage against President Hosni Mubarak’s autocratic government for two days of protests that defied a ban on public gatherings.

Anti-government protesters in Egypt used social networking sites to call for a fresh wave of action today following the biggest demonstrations in years.

Egypt’s opposition called the results of parliamentary elections invalid today claiming vote rigging secured an overwhelming victory for the ruling party.

Egypt’s president set November 28 as the date for the country’s parliamentary elections.

Thousands of neo-Nazis and their opponents massed today in the eastern German city of Dresden on the 65th anniversary of the deadly Allied bombing at the end of the Second World War

A group of Egyptian fishermen who were kidnapped by pirates off the Somali coast four months ago and managed to overpower their captors sailed home to a hero's welcome today, but some details of their dramatic escape remained a mystery.

A CAIRO court sentenced to death an Egyptian tycoon and an ex-cop hitman for the murder last year of the businessman’s former lover, Lebanese pop star Suzanne Tamim.

A property tycoon with ties to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s son was sentenced to death today for ordering the killing of a Lebanese pop star who had been his lover.

A neo-Nazi gang carved a swastika on a 17-year-old German girl’s skin after she tried to stop them taunting a young refugee.

Thousands of angry demonstrators destroyed the headquarters of Egypt’s ruling party in El Arish in the second day of protests over government neglect.

A Cairo court has sentenced the editors of four outspoken Egyptian tabloids to a year in prison for defaming President Hosni Mubarak and his ruling party, judicial officials said today.

Protesters clashed with riot police today as tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through the German city of Rostock to protest the upcoming Group of Eight summit.

Police arrested 16 people after neo-Nazis disrupted commemorations of Kristallnacht in an east German town, officials said today.

Sixteen neo-Nazis were arrested during a demonstration supporting the jailed lead singer of a banned skinhead rock group, Berlin police said today.

A FAR-RIGHT anti-foreigner party has embarrassed German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a regional election in her home state and delivered a wake-up call to her 10-month-old government, analysts warned yesterday.

Police clashed with voters who were struggling to enter a cordoned-off polling station in an opposition stronghold in the Nile Delta city of Zaqaziq today as Egyptians voted in the final day of their staggered legislative elections, which have been marred by violence and state interference.

The leading opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, won no seats in the final round of Egypt’s parliamentary elections after police barred thousands of its supporters from casting ballots, according to official results announced today.

Riot police fought with voters, firing tear gas and bullets that killed one person, as the state barred polling stations in opposition strongholds in the third and final round of Egypt's legislative elections.

Riot police clashed with would-be voters and blocked off polling stations to prevent people from casting ballots in several Muslim Brotherhood and opposition strongholds today, as Egypt entered the final round of legislative elections marred by violence and allegations of rigging.

Riot police barred Egyptian voters from the polls today as knife and gun clashes between supporters of Islamist and secular political parties marred runoff parliamentary elections.

WIDESPREAD violence marred the second round of Egypt’s parliamentary vote yesterday, with police saying a campaign worker was shot and killed in Alexandria and witnesses reporting scores of injuries.

Egyptians went to the polls today in their most robustly contested parliamentary election in more than 50 years, but no one expected the vote to unseat the long dominant party of President Hosni Mubarak.

President Hosni Mubarak, a close US ally and long-time leader of Egypt, was sworn in today for a fifth six-year term after a landslide victory in the country’s first contested presidential election.

President Hosni Mubarak pledged today to promote further democratic reforms in Egypt in his first comments since winning the first presidential elections held in the Arab world’s largest country.

Officials are counting votes today after Egypt’s first contested presidential election, a landmark ballot seen as a test of the government’s commitment to reform and America's push for greater democracy across the Middle East.

EGYPTIANS voted yesterday in the country’s first contested presidential election, but charges of fraud and a big boycott rally marred balloting that longtime leader Hosni Mubarak portrayed as a major democratic reform.

ABOUT 3,000 supporters of a German extreme-right party protested in Berlin yesterday against the “cult of guilt” they say was imposed on the nation after the Nazis were defeated 60 years ago.

Extreme right wing MPs walked out of a German state parliament today in protest at a minute’s silence honouring victims of Nazi aggression.

EAST GERMANS gave a strong boost to right-wing extremists and the former communists in two state elections, punishing the country’s biggest mainstream parties for the region’s high unemployment and cuts in social programmes.