The Sultan’s visit is the first by a foreign leader since moderate President Hassan Rouhani took office in early August.
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Police stayed away from the march, which was organised by the country’s main opposition parties.
The meeting, planned two months ago, is the third that the top military officers have held on Syria this year.
Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison last year for failing to prevent the killing of demonstrators.
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Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates have promised Egypt a total of $12 billion in loans, grants and fuel shipments.
Egypt’s Interior Ministry’s Facebook page showed a picture of Mohamed Badie with a caption confirming his arrest.
Prince Saud al-Faisal accused Western countries of tacitly encouraging Muslim Brotherhood violence with their criticism of the Egyptian military.
Mubarak, who ruled Egypt for 30 years, was arrested soon after his overthrow and became the first Arab leader to face trial.
A security source said the nine were “prominent participants suspected of incitement and chanting hostile slogans”.
Saudi foreign minister Prince Saud al-Faisal met French president Francois Hollande with both calling for fresh elections in Egypt.
The prince said Tareq al-Suwaidan, who has more than 1.9 million Twitter followers, had identified himself as “one of the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood”.
Activists in the Kingdom have been demanding more democratic reform for two and a half years.
Egyptian Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi proposed dissolving the group in a move that would force it underground and could usher in mass arrests of its members countrywide.
The Foreign Office said on August 6 it had withdrawn all staff from the embassy due to a high threat of kidnapping.
Hundreds were killed in Egypt last week when the security forces cleared protest camps set up by the Muslim Brotherhood.
Karman was the first Arab woman and second Muslim woman to win the Nobel peace prize.
Hundreds were killed as Egyptian authorities cleared out two camps of Mursi supporters on Wednesday.
Habiba Ahmed Abd Elaziz, who worked with Xpress,had been on leave when she was shot dead.
A ministry official put the death toll at 300, but the Muslim Brotherhood claimed over 2,000 people had been killed in a “massacre.”
Protesters in Bahrain took to the streets to demand democratic change in the Gulf state.
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International efforts have failed to mediate an end to a six-week political standoff between Mursi’s supporters and the army-backed government.
More than 300 people have already died in political violence since the army overthrew Mursi on July 3.
Fifteen prisoners crossed an Israeli checkpoint into Palestinian territory while eleven were released in the West Bank capital of Ramallah.
Activists calling for democracy say they were inspired by mass protests in Egypt last month.
Prime Minister Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman al-Khalifa has warned that those behind the planned demonstrations will be punished.
Almost 300 people have been killed in political violence since the overthrow of President Mohamed Mursi.
The US embassy in Sanaa, Yemen will remain closed due to security concerns.