Three killed, several wounded in clashes between police and 3,000 protesters in western province of Egypt, which marked first sizeable anti-Mubarak gathering in the area.
The United States urged Egypt to immediately lift an emergency law and launch democratic reforms as protesters staged the biggest show of defiance against President Hosni Mubarak in a three-week-old revolt.
The U.S. Jewish policy umbrella welcomed the emergence of a new state in southern Sudan, but said the international community must be vigilant in bringing about a broader peace.
The recent recognition by some countries of a Palestinian state “does not do any good whatsoever,” Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal said in an interview with The Jerusalem Post.