Egypt protests Moursi means occupy Department PM

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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PM Bulgaria withdrew in the midst of a wave of protests

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I will not be part of the Government in which the police beat up people

Sofia (Reuters)-Prime Minister (PM) Bulgaria Boiko Borisov resigned on Wednesday amid increasingly rampant protests against violence tinged the expensive electricity tariffs in the country.

Rolling rallies in Bulgaria after the Government set a high electricity rates and a range of budget tightening policy.

Public budget-saving policy in Bulgaria is also done in many countries on the European Union debt crisis at the end of the post.

Most of the people of Bulgaria are very expensive with the cost of energy, objected, the electric monopoly, low living standards and corruption that occurs in most EU Member States are poor.

About 10,000 people held a rally in some areas since Sunday while shouting "Mafia" and "backwards". Most of the demonstrations ended in uproar, reported Reuters.

Prime Minister Boiko Borisov has tried to stop the protest with dismiss Finance Minister, promised to reduce the price of electricity, and also punish foreign companies. But those steps have failed to ease the disappointment.

"I'm not going to be part of the Government in which the police were beating people," said Borisov announced his resignation today, Wednesday. The Parliament itself is expected to accept the resignation of Borisov on Wednesday night.

With the parliamentary system, Borisov could form a new cabinet by using the GERB party is dominant in Parliament as a political vehicle. If he fails, then the election is scheduled to take place in July will be brought forward.

The popularity of the previous uphill GERB till the end of last year because of austerity policies conducted in Bulgaria are not extreme se-other European countries. But in the last polls, the opposition Socialists are increasingly approached by GERB.

Many citizens of Bulgaria are frustrated with the unemployment rate which reached 11.9 percent and the average income is only 550 u.s. dollars per month. The anger reached the highest point when electric bills (needed for heating) surged during the winter.

The Government raised electricity rates--is politically sensitive because of the impact on the middle class down--by 13 percent in July, but the impact of these policies is not felt until households in Bulgaria began to use electricity to heat a room during the winter.

"The resignation is the only responsible step, the step also makes political career Borisov did not stop until here," said analyst Kantcho Stoychev of Gallup International.

Borisov had previously said that permission for electricity distribution company CEZ originating from the Czech Republic will be revoked. The policy plans can make Bulgaria and Czech Republic tension rises because 70 percent of CEZ shares are State-owned.

The Czech Government earlier had only pacified by Albania, which perform actions similar to Bulgaria in the last month.

Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas said that Bulgaria highly nuanced policy plan politically and have asked for an explanation.
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Tunisia protests following poll win

28 October 2011 booth 04: 22 GMT Rachid Ghannouchi said his party still who have violent protests in Central Tunisia goals of the Tunisian revolution, broke out after the results of the first democratic elections in the country, were announced in decades.

Police used tear gas had protested against hundreds of people in Sidi Bouzid, which seats won by either party against the cancellation.

The city is the birthplace of the unrest, which broke that raise Arab spring riots earlier this year.

The Ennahda of the Islamic party won elections last Sunday.

Official results show that Ennahda more than 41% of the vote, that there is 90 seats in the 217-member Parliament.

Party leader, Rachid Ghannouchi said his Government with the objectives of the revolution, continues to say that Tunisia was "for all".

Sunday poll found nine months after President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali was deposed.

Burning tires

On Thursday evening, hundreds of people by Sidi Bouzid marched, seats to protest the cancellation which won popular list party in six constituencies.

The electoral authorities said the candidates that had become invalid "Financial irregularities" party lists for.

The list of popular party, led by London merchant Hachemi Hamdi, had won a number of places in Sidi Bouzid.

Reports say the protesters smashed doors and Windows of the Central Ennahda in the town and also burned tyres on the roads.

Police fired tear gas to disperse the crowds.

Ennahda promise

Earlier on Thursday, the Election Commission of Ennahda proclaimed elections as the winner on Sunday.

At a press conference in Tunis, election Chief said Kamel Jandoubi, that the party would have 90 seats in the Parliament.

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End quote Rachid Ghannouchi Ennahda leader Ennahda said that it wants a new Government to make, within one month.

Mr Jandoubi said the Congress for the Republic (CPR) - the country's largest secular parties - finalist in the elections with almost 14%, winning 30 seats in the Parliament.

The leftist Ettakatol party comes with almost 10%, you 21 seats.

Ennahda, which was prohibited under the previous regime, says, that it is on the ruling AK party in Turkey, one other Muslim majority country has modeled, which has remained a secular State.

After results were announced, Mr. Ghannouchi promised every Tunisian rights would be protected by the new authorities.

"We'll continue this revolution, their goals of Tunisia, which is free, independent, development and prosperity, to realize the rights of God, the Prophet, women, men, religious and non-religious are, because Tunisia is for all" Mr. Ghannouchi said a crowd of supporters, Reuters reported.

Ennahda has sought to calm the secularists and to impose investors who carry tourists views of the Islamists, who nervously stop holding power in one of the most liberal countries of the Arab world, by saying that it would not prohibit alcohol, bikinis on the beaches or Islamic Bank.

Foreign tourism is an important source of revenue for Tunisia.

Tunisian Islamists promise, there will be no bans on bikinis and alcohol

But despite the assurances, the Ennahda victory concern caused in some parts of Tunisia, who fear that their policies could change later in the party, reported the BBC's Chloe Arnold.

Ennahda presented two, General Secretary of Hamadi Jebali, the number as the next Prime Minister. Coalition talks with the CPR and Ettakatol parties have already begun.

Mr Jebali, 62, is a former journalist. He was a co-founder of the Ennahda.

The polls were the first democratic elections, Tunisia and followed by the case of President Ben Ali, who was overthrown in January after mass demonstrations. He had in 23 years makes.

In contrast to its eastern neighbour Libya, Tunisia's transition from authoritarian was largely peaceful.

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Showdown averted in New York's Wall Street protests

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1 of 10. Members of the Occupy Wall Street movement march down Wall Street during a protest march through the financial district of New York October 14, 2011.

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NEW YORK | Fri Oct 14, 2011 4:16pm EDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Anti-Wall Street protesters claimed victory on Friday when plans to clean the park they occupy were postponed, while police forces in financial capitals around the world braced for a weekend of rallies.

A planned cleanup of the Lower Manhattan park that has been home to the Occupy Wall Street movement since September 17 was delayed just hours before it was due to begin by Brookfield Office Properties, which manages the publicly accessible park.

The move averted a possible showdown between police and protesters who viewed the cleanup as a ploy to evict them. Protesters loudly cheered the decision, and several hundred set off marching toward the city's financial district.

Police arrested 14 people, but there were no widespread disruptions.

"This development has emboldened the movement and sent a clear message that the power of the people has prevailed against Wall Street," Occupy Wall Street said in a statement, estimating more than 3,000 people had gathered in the park.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, in his weekly radio address on Friday, said his office was not involved in the decision to postpone the cleanup.

"My understanding is that Brookfield got lots of calls from many elected officials threatening them and saying, 'If you don't stop this, we'll make your life much more difficult,'" said Bloomberg, who added that he did not know which officials had called the company.

Protesters are upset that the billions of dollars in U.S. bank bailouts doled out during the recession allowed banks to resume earning huge profits while average Americans got scant relief from high unemployment and job insecurity.

They also argue that the richest 1 percent of Americans do not pay their fair share in taxes.

Many protesters feared the cleaning would be an attempt to shut down the movement that has sparked solidarity protests in other cities. Concerns also abounded about a repeat of the sort of riots that occurred in 1988 when New York police tried to clear another park, Tompkins Square, injuring 44 people.

RATS AND ROACHES?

Bloomberg said Brookfield wanted a few more days to try to reach an agreement with the protesters, who have undertaken their own efforts to clear debris from the park.

Should the two sides fail to reach an agreement, Brookfield could again try to clean the park, which Bloomberg said could put police in an even more difficult situation.

"It will be a little harder, I think, at that point in time to provide police protection," he said.

Meanwhile, authorities in New York, London, Frankfurt, Athens and elsewhere braced for demonstrations on Saturday.

Rallies were planned in some 71 countries, according to Occupy Together and United for Global Change.

In New York, organizers planned demonstrations in Times Square and Washington Square Park. Protesters will also march to JPMorgan Chase bank branch to withdraw their money.

"It's going to be big, it's going to be global," said David Sierra, 23, a carpenter from Queens.

In Denver, at least 21 people were arrested on Friday and tents were removed from the Occupy Denver protest.

Protesters in New York had spent much of the night tidying the park themselves, clearing away debris in hopes of keeping out Brookfield, a major real estate company that counts Bloomberg's girlfriend Diana Taylor among its board members.

"We clean up after ourselves. It's not like there's rats and roaches running around the park," said Bailey Bryant, 28, an employee at a Manhattan bank who visits the camp after work and on weekends.

(Additional reporting by Ellen Wulfhorst; Editing by Will Dunham and Paul Simao)

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A member of the Occupy Wall St movement holds a sign as he demonstrates in Zuccotti Park near the financial district of New York October 12, 2011.

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WASHINGTON | Wed Oct 12, 2011 8:28pm EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A strong majority of Americans are aware of the "Occupy Wall Street" protests against U.S. economic inequality and a majority either view them favorably or do not have an opinion about them, a Reuters/Ipsos poll said on Wednesday.

Eighty-two percent of Americans have heard of the protest movement, and 38 percent feel favorably toward it, the poll found. Thirty-five percent are undecided, and about one-fourth -- 24 percent -- are unfavorable.

Ipsos research director Chris Jackson said the large number of people who were positive or undecided reflected the mood of the country.

"People are just sort of angry," he said. "They aren't necessarily sure what they are angry about, and the protest captures that to a certain extent."

Democrats and Republicans were equally familiar with the protests, at 84 percent and 82 percent, respectively, but only 73 percent of independents were aware.

But their views are sharply divided by party. Fifty-one percent of Democrats viewed the protests favorably, versus just 11 percent who saw them unfavorably. Among independents, 37 percent had a positive view, compared with 14 percent who felt negative.

Just 22 percent of Republicans said they had a favorable view, compared with 44 percent who were unfavorable.

According to Occupy Together, which has become an online hub for protest activity, the Occupy Wall Street movement has sparked rallies in more than 1,300 cities throughout the United States and around the world.

The Reuters/Ipsos poll of 1,113 adults, including 934 registered voters, was conducted October 6-10. It surveyed 536 Democrats, 410 Republicans and 167 independents.

The margin of error was 3.0 percentage points for all respondents, 3.2 points for registered voters, 4.2 points for Democrats, 4.8 points for Republicans and 7.6 points for independents.

(Reporting by Patricia Zengerle; Editing by Peter Cooney)

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Wall Street protests spread as Fed official sympathizes

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1 of 18. An Occupy Wall Street protester marches up Broadway in New York City, October 5, 2011.

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NEW YORK | Thu Oct 6, 2011 6:12pm EDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Protests that began in New York against economic inequality spread across America on Thursday as the growing movement found unlikely support from a top official of one of its targets -- the Federal Reserve.

The Occupy Wall Street movement was sparking rallies in Austin, Texas; Tampa, Florida; Washington; Trenton and Jersey City, New Jersey; Houston, Los Angeles and Philadelphia.

The protesters gained some support from Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher, who told a business group in Fort Worth, Texas, "I am somewhat sympathetic -- that will shock you.

The Fed played a key role in one of the protest targets, the 2008 Wall Street bailout that critics say let banks enjoy huge profits while average Americans suffered high unemployment and job insecurity.

"We have too many people out of work," Fisher said. "We have a very uneven distribution of income. We have too many people out of work for too long. We have a very frustrated people, and I can understand their frustration."

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden also acknowledged the frustration and anger of the protesters on Thursday.

"People are frustrated and, you know, the protesters are giving voice to a more broad-based frustration about how our financial system works," Obama said at a news conference in Washington.

Biden, speaking at the Washington Ideas Forum, likened the protest movement to the Tea Party, which sprang to life in 2009 after Obama's election and has become a powerful conservative grass-roots force helping elect dozens of Republicans to office.

"The American people do not think the system is fair," Biden said.

'FED UP'

With support from unions boosting the protesters' ranks, organizers predicted the momentum would build across the country.

"This is the beginning," said John Preston in Philadelphia, business manager for Teamsters Local 929. "Teamsters will support the movement city to city."

Up to 1,000 people gathered to protest in Philadelphia, and hundreds turned out in Washington and Houston. Rallies in Chicago, San Antonio and Austin attracted dozens of people.

In Philadelphia, protesters chanted and waved placards reading: "I did not think 'By the People, For the People' meant 1 percent," a reference to their argument the country's top few have too much wealth and political power.

Tim Lucas, 49, vice president of a software company who was protesting in Austin, said: "I'm fed up with the government, I'm fed up with the bailouts. If I fail at my job, I don't get a bonus -- I get fired."

In Los Angeles, a couple hundred protesters squeezed into the lobby of a Bank of America building.

About 5,000 people marched on New York's financial district on Wednesday, the biggest rally so far, swelled by nurses, transit workers and other union members. Dozens of people were arrested and police used pepper spray on some protesters.

On Thursday, a few hundred protesters milled about a park near Wall Street where they have set up camp, but there were no apparent plans for another march.

The head of General Electric Co finance arm, Michael Neal, said he was sympathetic to the cause.

"People are really angry, and I get it. If I were unemployed now, I'd be really angry too," Neal told Reuters during an interview in Columbus, Ohio, after a GE event.

In Washington, protesters carried signs that read: "Human Needs, Not Corporate Greed" and "Stop the War on Workers."

"I believe the American dream is truly in jeopardy," said protester Darrell Bouldin, 25, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. "There are so many people like me in Tennessee who are fed up with the Wall Street gangsters."

About 200 people gathered in Houston, while in San Antonio, about 50 people gathered at the city's Confederate War Veterans Monument, chanting, "The banks got bailed out, we got sold out."

(Additional reporting by Corrie MacLaggan in Austin, Bruce Olson in St. Louis, Jim Forsyth in San Antonio, Ian Simpson in Washington, Dave Warner in Philadelphia and Chris Baltimore in Houston; Writing by Michelle Nichols and Barbara Goldberg; Editing by Jerry Norton, Ellen Wulfhorst and Peter Cooney)

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Sleepy village an unlikely spark for Roma protests

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Bulgarian riot police walk in front of burning guardhouse outside a house during protest in the village of Katunitsa, some 160 km (99 miles) east of Sofia September 24, 2011.

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KATUNITSA, Bulgaria | Fri Sep 30, 2011 12:18pm EDT

KATUNITSA, Bulgaria (Reuters) - Nothing in the cool autumn morning suggests the sleepy village of Katunitsa would have been the flashpoint for Bulgaria's worst outbreak of civil unrest for more than a decade.

Ethnic Bulgarian and Roma villagers agree the trouble behind what developed into nationwide anti-Roma protests was really a local dispute with Roma clan leader Kiril Rashkov, known locally as "Czar Kiro," after a man he was linked to ran over and killed a 19-year-old.

"Our problem is not a problem between the communities. Our problem is with the family of Kiril Rashkov," said resident Dimitar Zdravkov, who works for the council in a nearby town.

"We are living together with the Roma and we don't have any problems."

Residents of the village, which sits on flat farmland within commuting distance of Bulgaria's second city Plovdiv some 160 km (100 miles) east of Sofia, say Rashkov regularly behaved as if he were untouchable, grabbing land and making threats.

They regretted that their local problem had been hijacked by nationalists who used it as a pretext to rampage against Roma in the cities.

In revenge for the death of Angel Petrov, soccer "ultras" -- die-hard fans often at the center of violent incidents in southeast Europe -- from Plovdiv stormed Katunitsa and set some of Rashkov's houses and cars on fire.

The trouble quickly spread to bigger cities, rocking the European Union's poorest state for three nights and sounding a warning for other central and eastern European states.

The rallies have their roots in three of the region's most pressing concerns -- unemployment, organized crime and corruption, and the fragile position of ethnic minorities -- and show how even minor spats can swiftly escalate in countries where many people live in poverty.

Bulgaria has an average wage of 350 euros a month but in Katunitsa, a village of 2,400 people clustered around an Orthodox church, Rashkov owns fashionable cars, several luxury houses and a mansion with a pond and a private zoo.

He was convicted several times before the fall of communism for possession of foreign exchange and gold, has been arrested multiple times -- including for illegal production of alcohol -- and is currently being investigated for large-scale tax evasion.

It is a scene common to many places across Bulgaria, the EU's second most corrupt country where public dissatisfaction with official efforts to clamp down on people who flaunt unfeasible wealth is widespread.

Katunitsa's residents -- some have jobs in Plovdiv, others work in the fields and some rely on welfare -- say money is tight. But the village's long, paved streets lined with identical houses are tidy enough and villagers say the problem is not Rashkov's wealth, but his behavior.

ISOLATION

Roma are an easy target for frustration because they tend to live in specific districts, often in poor housing on the margins of big cities, and many are unemployed and perceived to be living off state benefits.

Hungary's Roma have been shot dead in their homes, killed by hand grenades and attacked with petrol bombs.

Last year in the Czech Republic, a court imposed the country's longest sentence for a racially motivated crime on four men who firebombed a Roma family's home, leaving a two-year-old child with burns over most of her body.

"Unfortunately it seems to have become a background pattern in this part of Europe," said Dezideriu Gergely, executive director of the European Roma Rights Center. "It's much easier to turn on minorities and Roma are the most vulnerable."

Neighboring Romania is the logical flashpoint, with the largest Roma population in Europe both in total numbers and in proportion to the overall population.

"In a society marred by strong economic pressures, people are always looking for an enemy or culprit," said independent political analyst Bogdan Teodorescu.

It is no surprise then that many Roma migrate to western Europe, a phenomenon that sparked its own controversy last year when France deported many Roma en masse.

POVERTY

This week's events have moved crime and Roma up the political agenda before next month's presidential elections -- though it remains to be seen what concrete action will be taken.

Rosen Plevneliev, the ruling GERB party's candidate for president, pledged to make more serious efforts to crack down on graft and also said it was time to resolve the Roma question.

"Many governments have done almost nothing about it over the last 20 years and more, now it must be made a priority," he told Reuters.

In Katunitsa's Roma neighborhood, residents say the weekend was terrifying and are grateful to ethnic Bulgarian villagers who stood up for them.

"The ultras wanted to come but the village didn't let them in," said Andon, a father of two who declined to give his second name.

"The people fighting in the cities are fighting for nothing. They are making Nazism."

(Additional reporting by Sam Cage and Radu Marinas in Bucharest; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)

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28 September 2011 Last updated at 22:59 GMT Demonstrators expressed their anger at President Evo Morales for backing the road Tens of thousands of demonstrators in Bolivia have brought traffic to a standstill in central La Paz.

They were protesting against the construction of a highway which would pass through a nature reserve in the Amazon.

The Bolivian government says the road is essential for development and would encourage trade by linking remote communities to market towns.

But indigenous communities fear it could encourage illegal settlements.

Bolivia's largest labour union had called for a day of protest on Wednesday.

Public anger

Thousands blocked the streets of central La Paz, carrying banners opposing the road and criticising President Evo Morales.

One of the demonstrators told the Associated Press news agency that Evo Morales' government was "the worst and it should go because it attacked human beings, the indigenous compatriots who had given it their support, and now it's turned its back on them".

Many of the protesters called into question President Morales' commitment to indigenous rights and the protection of "Mother Earth", which he advocated during his election campaign.

President Morales has suspended work on the road until a referendum is held, but the furore over the construction and the government's handling of the protests has not abated.

Indigenous groups opposed to the road said on Wednesday they would resume their 500km (310-mile) march to La Paz.

Their trek was broken up by police firing tear gas on Sunday and protesters complained that "extreme violence" had been used.

Defence Minister Cecilia Chacon resigned in protest at the police action.

Interior Minster Sacha Llorenti and his deputy Marcos Farfan stepped down on Tuesday.

They had defended the break-up of the march, but denied ordering the use of force.

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