Mubarak to Name New Cabinet as Demonstrators Clash With Police a Fifth Day
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is set to name a new government today after ignoring demands to resign from protesters who clashed with security forces for a fifth day, setting alight buildings and vehicles.
Mubarak spoke in a televised address to the nation just after midnight in Cairo after ordering the army into the streets to restore order. Twenty people have been killed and 1,000 injured in the clashes that have swept Cairo and other major cities around the country, Qatar-based Al Jazeera television reported, without saying how it obtained the information.