Hosni Mubarak ... began the modernisation of this ancient land. Mr Mubarak succeeded Mr Anwar Sadat, president-for-life, a week after his assassination by Islamist militants on October 6th ...

Tamer was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal.

CAIRO, (AFP) - Egypt's Hosni ... 25, Mubarak seemed untouchable as president of the most populous nation in the Arab world, backed by the United States and the military from whose ranks he had emerged ...

CAIRO, February 25. /TASS/. Former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak has died on Tuesday in Cairo aged 91, the state television reports. In the past month, he was undergoing treatment in an ICU uni ...