EGYPT: Prime minister doubts Mubarak handover

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Egypt’s Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik said he doesn’t expect President Hosni Mubarak to accept a proposal to hand over authority to Vice President Omar Suleiman.

Shafik’s remarks were broadcast Friday by Al Arabiya television.

-- Molly Hennessy-Fiske

Anti-government demonstrators Friday in Cairo’s Tahrir Square beat a man, bottom left, suspected of being a supporter of President Hosni Mubarak; others try to protect him. Credit: Peter Macdiarmid /Getty