{"id":34270,"date":"2011-02-11T11:48:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T16:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=34270"},"modified":"2011-06-03T16:34:12","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T20:34:12","slug":"breaking-news-mubarak-steps-down-leaves-cairo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/breaking-news-mubarak-steps-down-leaves-cairo\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News: Mubarak steps down, leaves Cairo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2011\/02\/201121125158705862.html\"><em>from Al Jazeera English<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, has resigned from his post, handing over power to the armed forces.<\/p>\n<p>Omar Suleiman, the vice-president, announced in a televised address that the president was &#8220;waiving&#8221; his office, and had handed over authority to the Supreme Council of the armed forces.<\/p>\n<p>Suleiman&#8217;s short statement was received with a roar of approval and by celebratory chanting and flag-waving from a crowd of hundreds of thousands in Cairo&#8217;s Tahrir Square, as well by pro-democracy campaigners who attended protests across the country on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd in Tahrir chanted &#8220;We have brought down the regime&#8221;,  while many were seen crying, cheering and embracing one another.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tonight, after all of these weeks of frustration, of violence, of intimidation &#8230; today the people of Egypt undoubtedly [feel they] have been heard, not only by the president, but by people all around the world,&#8221; our correspondent at Tahrir Square reported, following the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-democracy activists in the Egyptian capital had marched on the presidential palace and state television buildings on Friday, the 18th consecutive day of protests.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2011\/02\/201121125158705862.html\">Continue reading here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Al Jazeera English Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, has resigned from his post, handing over power to the armed forces. Omar Suleiman, the vice-president, announced in a televised address that the president was &#8220;waiving&#8221; his office, and had handed over authority to the Supreme Council of the armed forces. Suleiman&#8217;s short statement was received &#8230; <a title=\"Breaking News: Mubarak steps down, leaves Cairo\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/breaking-news-mubarak-steps-down-leaves-cairo\/\" aria-label=\"More on Breaking News: Mubarak steps down, leaves Cairo\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}