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By Camille Elhassani in Americas on February 5th, 2011
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US president Barack Obama took questions from the press for the first time since the crisis in Egypt began 11 days ago.  

Of the two pre-selected journalists, only one asked Obama about Egypt. In his response, the president didn't go much beyond his comments from earlier in the week.  

Obama reiterated his administration's position that the future of Egypt should be determined by Egyptians.

By Al Jazeera Staff in Middle East on February 3rd, 2011

From our headquarters in Doha, we keep you updated on all things Egypt, with reporting from Al Jazeera staff in Cairo and Alexandria.  Live Blog: Jan28 - Jan29 - Jan30 - Jan31 - Feb1 - Feb2 - Feb3 -

By Camille Elhassani in Americas on February 2nd, 2011
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The White House has issued its strongest words yet on the situation in Egypt in the form of a clarification of the word "now."

 On Tuesday, after calling President Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian president, Barack Obama, the US president, said, "What is clear - and what I indicated tonight to President Mubarak - is my belief that an orderly transition must be meaningful, it must be peaceful, and it must begin now."

But when that didn’t happen, Obama had his press secretary explain what the president meant by "now".

In his daily press briefing on Wednesday, Robert Gibbs, White House spokesman, said, "'Now' means yesterday ... what the people of Egypt want to see is not some process that starts a week, a month, or several months from now."

However, Obama has been behind closed doors all day, keeping the press at bay so we haven’t heard him explain the definition of the word "now".

By Al Jazeera Staff in Middle East on February 1st, 2011

From our headquarters in Doha, we keep you updated on all things Egypt, with reporting from Al Jazeera staff in Cairo, Alexandria, and Suez.  Live Blog: Jan28 - Jan29 - Jan30 - Jan31 - Feb1 - Feb2 - Feb3<

By Al Jazeera Staff in Middle East on January 30th, 2011
Sleeping protester at Tahrir Sq. with signs: "people decide for themselves" and "down with the head of the gang" [Reuters]

From our headquarters in Doha, we keep you updated on all things Egypt, with reporting from Al Jazeera staff in Cairo, Alexandria, and Suez.  Live Blog: Jan28 - Jan29 - Jan30 - Jan31 - Feb1 - Feb2 - Feb3<

By Al Jazeera Staff in Middle East on January 28th, 2011

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By John Terrett in Americas on October 13th, 2010
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Almost six months after the Deep Water Horizon oil rig exploded killing 11 workers at the start of the worst environmental disaster ever in the Gulf of Mexico, the Obama administration's lifting of its six-month moratorium on new deep-water oil and gas drilling permits ...

By Al Jazeera Staff in Europe on May 5th, 2010
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Britain has held what appears to be the tightest election race in a generation.

The Conservative party took the lead but failed to gain a clear parliamentary majority, leaving the UK with a hung parliament. Eyes are now on the Liberal Democrats, as the two main parties attempt to woo them into forming an alliance.

You can follow the the latest news from Al Jazeera's UK election team right here.  

1636 GMT It's not just Nick Clegg that David Cameron is going to have to convince of the merits of a coalition. As this story from the Financial Times shows, he faces a battle persuading his own party.

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