ElBaradei quits Egypt President poll race

Egypt’s reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei is pulling out of the country’s presidential race to protest at the military’s failure to put the country on the path to democracy.

The 69-year-old Nobel laureate, who has been seen as a driving force behind the movement that forced former President Hosni Mubarak to step down, said in a statement that the conditions for a fair presidential election are not in place.