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Cairo (Reuters)-Egypt, presidential Institution Friday (3/5), denied a rumor circulating that President Mohamed Moursi meant to occupy the post of Prime Minister in the next cabinet reshuffle, Egypt's official news agency reports, MENA.

"There was a discussion about charging the position to other people," said Presidential Spokesman Omar Amer Egypt as cited MENA.

"Qualifying will be a basic criterion for the upcoming cabinet reshuffle," said Amer.

The current Prime Minister Hesham Qandil have faced widespread condemnation from the opposition with respect to the "poor performance" of his Government and sacking him have become the major demands of the opposition, reports Xinhua.

At the end of April, Moursi Announces cabinet reshuffle will happen and say they are highly qualified will be the responsibility and has no achievements to be replaced.

According to political commentators, most members of the reshuffle that is expected to include six Ministers apparently will not satisfy the country's opposition, who are demanding changes to the Government and the dismissal of a total of Qandil.

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Activists occupy Belo Monte dam

27 October 2011 booth 23: 22 GMT indigenous groups have hundreds of activists protesting against the project for years of the Belo Monte dam project in the Brazilian Amazon site have.

Challenge, that the work on the multi billion dollar dam be stopped, because it would displace thousands of indigenous people and the environment damage.

The protesters, many of them members of indigenous groups, said that she would remain indefinitely at the site.

The Government says that the project for the energy needs of vital importance.

Indian missionary Council, an organization supported by the Catholic Church, said that more than 600 Indians, fishermen and indigenous had occupied it the site, and the road.

A spokesman for the Council said the news agency AFP, the occupation was peaceful and there were no cases.

The indigenous groups to negotiate with representatives, which they say, the Council requested that send Government, would suffer from the building of the dam.

"In view of the intransigence of the Government and its insistence on ignoring us, we now occupy the Belo Monte construction website and block access to the motorway Transamazon" Council stated on his website.

The BBC's Paulo Cabral in São Paulo says local judge said to leave the protesters or a $300 (£ 185) daily fine himself.

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Construction of the dam was halted last month after a judge ruled, however, for reasons of environmental protection, but the construction of accommodation blocks for the project could workers continue to.

Judge Carlos Castro Martins ruled out any work that would interfere with the natural flow of the Xingu River.

He opted for a fisheries group, which argues that the Belo Monte dam would affect local fish stocks and local families who could damage fishing life.

Judge Martin's excluded the Norte Energia company behind the project of "a port to build explosives, installation of dikes, canals and other infrastructure work that would interfere with the natural flow of the Xingu River, thus the local fish stocks".

He said the construction of canals and levees would have negative effects for River communities of small-scale fishing life.

The Consortium behind the project is expected to appeal against the decision.

In June, the Brazilian environment agency supported the construction of the dismissal of concerns by environmentalists and indigenous groups, who claim that damage and tens of thousands of people replacing it the world's largest tropical rainforest.

The Agency, Ibama, said that the dam had exposed "robust analysis" of the impact on the environment.

Dam would 11,000 megawatts the third largest in the world - after the three gorges in China and Itaipu, executed jointly by Brazil and Paraguay.

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Mandatory Halloween meeting to occupy some Alabama sex offenders

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MOBILE, Ala | Thu Oct 27, 2011 7:08pm EDT

MOBILE, Ala (Reuters) - Authorities in one southeast Alabama county have special Halloween plans for certain sex offenders, designed to keep trick-or-treaters safer and parents more at ease.

The Russell County Sheriff's Department has ordered nearly a quarter of the county's registered sex offenders -- those either on parole or probation -- to spend three hours of All Hallows' Eve at their own little party in the county commission chambers.

There won't be any party favors, but those in attendance will receive a timely, and mandatory, update on the latest registration requirements, said Russell County Sheriff Heath Taylor.

"My thought process in this was that to protect our kids. If we save one somebody from becoming a (sex offender's) victim, then it's done its job," he said.

The program is a joint venture between the sheriff's office and the Alabama Department of Pardons and Paroles. About 35 of the county's 150 registered sex offenders are either on parole or probation, but Taylor said his office can only encourage the remaining 115 offenders to attend the meeting voluntarily.

"We can't make them do it, but for the ones that it's voluntary, we're hoping they'll come on in and get some help with their next registration," Taylor said, noting about one dozen offenders had already volunteered to attend the program by late Thursday afternoon.

Alabama law requires sex offenders to register four times per year at a cost of $10 per registration. Any offender who voluntarily attends the Halloween meeting will have the fee for their next registration period waived, Taylor said.

"This is just something we felt we needed to do for the safety of our community, and I really think it's going to be a good thing," he said.

Russell County is not alone in its quest to contain any holiday-induced threats to its littlest residents, but laws governing the activities of convicted sex offenders on Halloween vary widely from city to city and state to state.

Although no statewide law bars sex offenders from handing out candy to Alabama trick-or-treaters, neighboring Florida enacted a law in 2010 that not only bans that but also bars offenders from wearing costumes children might find appealing.

In California's Riverside County, two separate cities passed ordinances within the past week barring sex offenders from passing out candy, and sheriff's deputies in Virginia's Loudon County will visit residences of sex offenders Monday night to ensure all parole or probation requirements are being met.

A spokesman with the Loudon County Sheriff's Office said "Operation Porch Lights Out" also prohibits violators on probation or parole from turning on their porch lights, answering their doors for trick-or-treaters or displaying "inviting" decorations on Halloween.

(Editing by Jerry Norton)

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New risk for Occupy Wall Street: less media interest

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1 of 4. Protesters and members of Occupy Wall Street wait for the start of the march, during an annual demonstration calling for a stop to police brutality in New York October 22, 2011.

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NEW YORK | Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:04pm EDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - "Occupy Wall Street" is occupying less space in TV broadcasts, newspapers and social media as the story settles into a familiar pattern and protesters dig in for what could be a protracted fight.

While the movement's reliance on Twitter and Facebook to spread its message is well established, it has also benefited from becoming a media curiosity, at times drawing legions of TV crews and reporters to its encampments. Coverage fed on itself, as more people joined in more cities.

But experts say the protests are now making a natural -- yet challenging -- progression off the front page and cable news, as new events like the death of Muammar Gaddafi take prominence.

Any loss of the limelight, especially when the onset of cold weather has already started to reduce the ranks of protesters prepared to camp out overnight in lower Manhattan, could dampen the momentum of the movement.

"Without the oxygen to fuel their fire they're very much at risk of losing relevance," said Daniel Tisch, chairman of the Global Alliance of Public Relations & Communication Management, a confederation of national PR societies.

To some extent, even the protesters agree they are likely to get less attention as time goes by.

"People know what the general storyline is," said Senia Barragan, a protester from New Jersey acting as a spokeswoman for the occupation when not working on a doctorate at Columbia University. "I think they're moving on to other stories."

The loss of media interest is the latest roadblock to Occupy's momentum.

Experts on social movements have said the protesters need a "second act" of sorts as fatigue sets in and as cold weather starts to descend on New York and other protest sites.

In the days leading up to a series of worldwide protests on October 15, there were practically as many reporters as occupiers at Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan -- to the consternation of some protesters, who started charging to have their pictures taken.

But with more than five weeks gone since the concrete plaza was first taken, the media's fascination with the story has started to wane.

DOWN SHARPLY LAST WEEK

The Pew Research Center produces a weekly News Coverage Index, which charts what percentage of total news coverage across dozens of outlets is taken up by a variety of topics. In the week ended October 16, coverage of Occupy Wall Street peaked at 10 percent of the total "newshole."

But last week it fell sharply to just 4 percent of news coverage, according to the latest version of the index, about the same as the mass release of exotic animals in Ohio.

Other data also support the finding. The Factiva news database shows 18,341 mentions of "Occupy Wall Street" in the week ended October 23, down 19 percent from the week prior.

While mentions rose daily during the week ended October 16, the numbers declined steadily the following week. From October 17 to 23, the number of daily uses of the phrase fell by more than half.

Even on those social media platforms that have been a backbone of the Occupy protests, there is less attention now.

Trendistic, a website that lets people monitor Twitter trends, shows clearly that the "#OccupyWallSt" hashtag has been declining as a percentage of overall hashtag use worldwide since October 15.

The same holds for other popular tags of the movement like "OWS" and simply "Occupy."

TV data is harder to come by, but anyone who has spent any time at Zuccotti Park over the last month can tell there are fewer TV operations than there were before. On Monday morning, there was just one satellite truck and a small handful of foreign camera crews.

Media watchers said all of these changes were to be expected in the context of what has been an extremely busy news year thus far.

"There's a lot of other things going on. This could just, instead of being front page news, be relegated ... further in the newspaper than the front page," said Brad Adgate, senior vice president of research at Horizon Media.

(Reporting by Ben Berkowitz; editing by Edward Tobin)

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About 130 arrested at Occupy Chicago protest

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n">(Reuters) - About 130 protesters were arrested at an Occupy Chicago demonstration early Sunday after they erected tents and refused to leave a park next to Lake Michigan after its closing time, police said.

The breakup of the protest in Grant Park was the second mass arrest of demonstrators from Occupy Chicago in the past week. A week ago, about 175 protesters were arrested.

In Philadelphia Sunday, 15 people were arrested when a group of protesters blocking traffic refused to move, authorities said. They face misdemeanor charges of obstructing a highway.

The Philadelphia arrests were the first there since Occupy Philadelphia began in sympathy with the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York.

In Chicago, the protesters were charged with violating a city ordinance, the equivalent of the lowest misdemeanor, and most were released after agreeing to appear in court, police said.

Grant Park, the site of large protests against the Vietnam War during the Democratic Party's convention in Chicago in 1968, is supposed to be closed after 11 p.m., police said.

The protests, which launched more than a month ago in New York and focus on anger over government bailouts of big banks and persistent high unemployment, have sprung up across the United States and in other countries.

The demonstrations focus on what protesters see as unequal treatment of the 99 percent of Americans versus the top 1 percent of earners, but critics have said the groups lack clear objectives.

Hundreds of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators have been arrested in New York since the protests began. There have also been numerous arrests in Tampa, Florida, Cincinnati, Des Moines, Minneapolis, Denver and other cities.

(Reporting by David Bailey, additional reporting by Dave Warner in Philadelphia, editing by Ellen Wulfhorst and Sandra Maler)

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Cornel West Arrested Again At Occupy Protest

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Cornel West and New York City religious leaders protest Friday in Harlem.

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Less than a week after his arrest on the steps of the Supreme Court, the activist and Princeton professor was cuffed in Harlem.

Cornel West was protesting the NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy in front of a police precinct in Harlem with dozens of other activists when police began to arrest those who had gotten too close to the station.

The group of demonstrators had marched north from the Occupy Wall Street home base at Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan. They congregated in front of the Adam Clayton Powell State Office Building on 125th Street to protest the stop-and-frisk policy, which they say unfairly targets Hispanic and black men.

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Police arrested 30 protesters on disorderly conduct charges after they blocked the precinct's entrance. West and other organizers said that they intended to get arrested. Among those taken in were religious leaders, another New York City college professor, and Carl Dix, spokesman for the Revolutionary Communist Party.

The movement against stop-and-frisk has been gaining steam recently as New York politicians have criticized NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly for relying on the tactic too heavily. State Senator Eric Adams condemned the policy, saying it's an “example of how this city's police culture has been allowed to cultivate racist and sexist mentalities in some of its officers."

Nick Carbone is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @nickcarbone. You can also continue the discussion on TIME's Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.

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Occupy Wall Street Park Cleanup Deferred

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NEW YORK — The owners of a New York plaza where protesters have camped out for a month decided Friday to put off cleaning it, sending up cheers from demonstrators who feared the plan was merely a pretext to evict them and said the victory emboldened their movement.

Protesters were already scrambling to scrub the park where they've been sleeping and eating for weeks when, under pressure from local officials, the owners of the park decided to call off their own cleanup.

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"It's really a victory for freedom of speech and for democracy," said Liane Nikitovich, 44, a fitness instructor. "This is one moment. It shows that our support is growing worldwide."

In an emailed statement, Brookfield said Friday that it had deferred cleaning the park for a short period while it negotiates with protesters.

"At the request of a number of local political leaders, Brookfield Properties has deferred the cleaning of Zuccotti Park for a short period of time while an attempt is made to reach a resolution regarding the manner in which Zuccotti Park is being used by the protesters," the company said.

The protesters declared their decision a boon to their movement, which blames Wall Street and corporate interests for the economic pain they say all but the wealthiest Americans have endured since the financial meltdown. Since starting a month ago in New York, the movement has spread to cities across the U.S. and the world.

"This development has emboldened the movement and sent a clear message that the power of the people has prevailed against Wall Street," New York organizers said in a statement.

In Denver early Friday, police in riot gear herded hundreds of protesters away from the Colorado state Capitol, arresting about two dozen and dismantling their encampment. In Trenton, N.J., protesters were ordered to remove tents from their encampment near a war memorial.

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New York police arrested 14 people, including protesters who obstructed traffic by standing or sitting in the street, and others who tuned over trash baskets, knocked over a police scooter and hurled bottles.

A few blocks south of the park, about two dozen demonstrators screamed "Pigs!" and hurled obscenities at a dozen officers in riot gear, who showed no visible reaction. The officers left the area, trailed by protesters with cameras.

Protesters have had some previous run-ins with police, including mass arrests on the Brooklyn Bridge and an incident in which some protesters were pepper-sprayed.

Several protests are planned this weekend in the U.S., Canada and Europe, as well as in Asia and Africa, and the official capitulation in New York could buoy those events.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whose girlfriend is on Brookfield's board of directors, said his staff was under strict orders not to pressure the company one way or the other. He noted that the company can still go ahead with the cleanup at some point.

"My understanding is that Brookfield got lots of calls from many elected officials threatening them and saying ... 'We're going to make your life more difficult,'" he said on his weekly radio show.

The company's rules, which haven't been enforced, have all along prohibited tarps, sleeping bags and storing personal property on the ground. Though the park is privately owned, it is required to be open to the public 24 hours per day.

Brookfield, a publicly traded real estate firm, had planned to power-wash the New York plaza section by section over 12 hours and allow the protesters back — but without much of the equipment they needed to sleep and camp there. The company called the conditions at the park unsanitary and unsafe.

The New York Police Department had said it would make arrests if Brookfield requested it and laws were broken. But the deputy mayor's statement indicated that "for the time being" Brookfield was withdrawing its request for police assistance in cleaning the park.

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Obama Should Be Wary of 'Occupy' Movement

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Pollster John Zogby updates our weekly Obama Report Card with a grade on the president's performance. Zogby uses his polling, expert analysis and interaction with major players to come up with a grade and some comments that capture how he sees the president's week ending.

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"A Senate majority supported the president's jobs bill, with every Republican opposed. Obama is counting on the bill staying popular and using it to hammer Republicans. Unfortunately for him, two Democrats up for election next year voted no, allowing the GOP to say opposition was bipartisan. People on the streets in the growing Occupy Wall Street (and other cities) are sick of the gamesmanship by both parties. Obama is keeping the movement at arm's length, and should realize it is in part a repudiation of him, and that he can't count on these angry voters' support a year from now. The week's best news for Obama may have come from big business leaders who hold nearly all the seats on his Jobs Council. The council's interim report is very similar to Obama's own jobs plan. Maybe Obama has more business friends in high places than people think."

This week's grade: C-

Last week's: C

John Zogby is Chairman of the Board and Chief Insights Officer for IBOPE Zogby International, a non-partisan public opinion, research, and business solutions firm with experience working in more than 70 countries around the globe. IBOPE Zogby International specializes in telephone, Internet, and face-to-face survey research and analysis for corporate, political, nonprofit, and governmental clients. The firm is headquartered in Utica, N.Y. John Zogby is also the author of The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream (Random House).

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In pictures: Occupy Wall Street clash with police

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Occupy Wall Street Protest: 12 Days and Little Sign of Slowing Down

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A protestor look in his bag in Zuccotti Park, where demonstrators against the economic system have been gathering since September 17

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Nearly two weeks ago, an estimated 3,000 people assembled at Battery Park with the intention of occupying Wall Street. They were an eclectic group, mostly young, some with beards and tattoos, other dressed in shorts and sneakers; a few even wore suits for the occasion. But nearly everyone was angry at what they saw as a culture of out-of-control greed. They didn't succeed — at least not geographically, forgoing Wall Street for nearby Zuccotti Park, just around the corner from Ground Zero.

News outlets put the crowd there at several thousand, but that seemed to overestimate its true numbers. When I visited the park on Sept. 17, I counted backpacks and sleeping bags, trying to differentiate the tourists and casual marchers from those who were in it for the long haul. I came up with about 200 people.

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Over the past 12 days, however, those numbers have grown. On a late-night visit to Zuccotti Park on Tuesday, the fecklessness and disorganization reported earlier in the New York Times seemed largely absent. A protest that began in utter dysfunction has given way to a fairly organized movement with a base camp for its most stalwart members, now numbering more than 300 people, who have slept in the park for 12 nights straight–and who say they intend to stay.

Perhaps no incident galvanized the protesters more than their march north to Union Square on Sept. 24. Police arrested nearly 80 people whom they say were blocking traffic, and video of a penned-in female protester being pepper sprayed by a police officer went viral on the web. The protesters have posted the video on their website and a picture of the woman adorns the board at the entrance to the park, at what's now become the groups quasi-official information booth. At small table, posterboards lay out the schedule for the day, which includes marches down to Wall Street for the stock exchange's opening and closing bells, each followed by a "General Assembly" where the various groups gather to discuss their goals, their current status and what might come next.

The park has become a semi-permanent home, complete with a medical station and a distribution point for food and water. The protesters have organized themselves into committees to remove the garbage, roam the camp to enforce a ban on open flames (an evictable offense in the eyes of the NYPD) and engage with the people in the area. A couple of pizza joints, a Burger King and a deli have let the protesters use their bathrooms; some have even donated food. In the middle of the park is a media center where protesters send out Twitter updates and live-stream the latest news on their website. At 1 am Wednesday, more than 3,000 people were sending in questions while a young woman in a yellow poncho answered them on a live feed.

But while "Occupy Wall Street" has become more organized, its demands haven't coalesced into a coherent message. The only thing its various constituent groups appear to have in common is a deep-seated anger at inequality in this country. For them Wall Street symbolizes that unfairness, but the groups have other concerns as well. Many want to redistribute wealth; others want to enlarge government social programs. Some are protesting against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Daniel Levine, a journalism student from upstate New York, said he was taking a stand against the controversial method of natural gas extraction known as hydrofracking in his hometown – but also noted that the practice can bring jobs to economically disadvantaged regions.

Just as it lacks a single message, the "Occupy Wall Street" movement has been defined by the absence of a clear leader. Participants say that is by design, and point to the committees that have sprung up to tend to the daily needs of those camped in Zuccotti Park. It isn't clear that they want a single leader, and many think the movement is better of without one. “It's kind of cool how it's growing organically,” one said. “People just need to give it time and it'll come together.”

Assuming organizers can keep the protest on the good side of the law, all indications are that it will continue for a long time. A sign by the information booth held a wish list: hats, gloves, tarps, and warm clothing. On live streams on the website, organizers answered questions about what supporters could bring or send. If last weekend is any indication, the numbers could swell this Saturday as supporters come in from out of town. For those who eventually leave again, Levine hopes that they take the skills they've learned back to their communities to continue to protest for whatever cause they support. "Every person who's been here more than three days can completely organize a protest in their hometowns," Levine says. "This is the most productive homelessness I've ever seen."

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Nate Rawlings is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @naterawlings. Continue the discussion on TIME's Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.

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