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Protesters besieged Egypt's Interior Ministry after a night of clashes with police in which 400 people were wounded.
Demonstrations erupted in Egypt this week following deaths at a soccer stadium in Port said as the football incident turned quickly into a political crisis. Protesters hold the military-led authorities responsible for the bloodshed.
The only vehicles in the usually congested downtown area were largely ambulances that ferried away casualties from clashes with police. In separate clashes in the city of Suez, two protesters were killed as police used live rounds to hold back crowds trying to break into a police station.. The soccer stadium deaths have heaped new criticism on the military council, which has governed Egypt since Former President Hosni Mubarak stepped down a year ago in the face of mass protests.
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Five people, including two children, were killed in violence across Syria as forces loyal to President Bashar Al-Assad fired on several protests.
The Syrian observatory for human rights said the two children were killed in an explosion near a cultural centre in the Idlib region.
Two civilians were shot dead on farms in the flashpoint town of Rankus, near Damascus.
In the Southern Daraa region, a soldier was killed and five others injured in clashes in the town of Jassem between government forces and fighters from the deserter free Syrian Army.
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The United Nations says, an exceptional harvest after good rains and food deliveries by aid agencies have ended famine in Somalia although conditions remain fragile and could worsen.
Food and agriculture organisation director general, Jose Graziano said the latest harvest in Somalia was double the average of the past 17 years. Dg fao Mr Graziano said, good news does not mean that the crisis is over. While aid deliveries to some 180,000 people in camps in the capital Mogadishu have improved the situation there, fighting in southern and Central Somalia is still hampering food deliveries to the worst-hit areas.
The fighting, combined with attacks on aid workers and a history of aid being manipulated for political gain, makes Somalia one of the toughest countries for relief agencies to operate in.
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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said today his country has its own threats to respond to any military attack or sanctions against its oil exports.
In a televised speech as he led traditional Friday prayers in Tehran Khamenei said our threats will be implemented at the right time, if necessary. His comments came amid heightened speculation that Israel with or without us help was contemplating air strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities.
Khamenei focused on warnings by the United States that it was mulling "all options"including war to undercut Iran's nuclear Programme. He said threats of war are detrimental to the United States, and carrying out a war would be 10 times more detrimental for that country.
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In Occupied Kashmir, Senior APHC Leader Professor Abdul Ghani Butt has said the Kashmiris are masters of their own destiny and no one can deprive them of their democratic right to decide their future.
Addressing a function in Gandarbal, professor butt maintained that Kashmiris would never cave in to the Indian state terrorism. The JKLF Chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik addressing a public meeting in Pulwama said finding out a lasting solution to the Kashmir dispute as per wishes of the People was imperative for peace in South Asia.
Senior APHC Leader, Shabbir Ahmad Shah, in a statement issued in Srinagar, said, the moves for enhancing bilateral trade relations will not reap fruit unless India like Pakistan makes sincere efforts to resolve the Kashmir dispute . On the other hand, an Indian trooper shot dead an officer, Subedar Dilbagh Singh, at his unit in Noushera area of Rajouri District.
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