Egypt crisis shows little signs of ending

Cairo: As anti-regime rallies in Egypt entered their third week, tens of thousands of protesters on Tuesday vowed to step up their struggle to oust embattled President Hosni Mubarak, who attempted to defuse public anger by setting up a panel to oversee key constitutional and legislative amendments to enable a power transition. "Nothing will move […]

Cairo: As anti-regime rallies in Egypt entered their third week, tens of thousands of protesters on Tuesday vowed to step up their struggle to oust embattled President Hosni Mubarak, who attempted to defuse public anger by setting up a panel to oversee key constitutional and legislative amendments to enable a power transition.

"Nothing will move us. We only have one-point agenda to see the back of despot Mubarak," Shady al-Ghazali Harb, who has been elected by the youths leading the protests to be one of their representatives in talks with the regime, said.