Several people have been wounded in the clashes

What will Mubarak do? 1537 GMT: Hossam Badrawi, secretary general of Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party, is about to resign after just six days in the job, a source close to him tells. 1534 GMT: An Egyptian protester has died and 20 people have been injured in clashes between police and demonstrators in the north Sinai town of Al-Arish, a security official tells. The unidentified protester was killed in an exchange of gunfire between police and demonstrators who were trying to free detainees from a police station, the official says. 1529 GMT: Leader of Mubarak's ruling party to step down: source 1527 GMT: State TV, besieged by cheerful protesters, has adopted a novel form of reality protest show. A presenter is standing in the crowd with his cellphone passing it to demonstrators who are filmed in long shot from somewhere behind the security cordon. One by one they shout the people?s grievances into the phone, and it?s broadcast live on air. It?s a bit repetitive, but it?s an extraordinarily open development on a state channel normally seen as a propaganda organ. 1520 GMT: US official: Mubarak's move to Sharm el-Sheikh "positive first step" 1515 GMT: Italy warns of a looming immigration "emergency" and appeals for European Union assistance, after coast guards intercepted hundreds of undocumented immigrants sailing from Tunisia. "There is a risk of a real humanitarian emergency," says Interior Minister Roberto Maroni. The uprising in Egypt and last month's revolt in Tunisia are leading to a "mass flight" to Italian shores by immigrants, he adds. 1500 GMT: The tense situation in Egypt is affecting US stocks, dealers say. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 17.52 points (0.14 percent) at 12,211.85 "Concerns toward the Middle East are stymieing sentiment on the heels of Egyptian President Mubarak?s decision to remain in office," analysts at Charles Schwab say in a client note. 1456 GMT: A security official estimated the total number of marchers in Cairo at up to one million, while an journalist estimated Rosetta Stone Hindi V3 there were around half a million on the seafront in the second city of Alexandria and there were reports of thousands more in Red Sea cities. 1451 GMT: Egyptian protesters in the north Sinai town of El-Arish exchanged gunfire with police today and hurled Molotov cocktails at a police station, witnesses say. About 1,000 protesters broke off from a larger group and headed towards a police station, lobbing firebombs and burning police cars, according to the witnesses. Several people have been wounded in the clashes, but the number is not immediately clear, the witnesses add. 1446 GMT: "People here don't care if he's in the palace or not. We want him to quit the presidency," says 40-year-old Mohammed Hamdan, who works for an oil firm, as he joins the protest outside Mubarak's palace in the Cairo suburbs. 1442 GMT: The Egyptian presidency is to make an "urgent and important" statement shortly, state television says. "An important and urgent statement will be made by the presidency of the republic shortly," it says. 1434 GMT: Egypt presidency to make 'important' statement shortly: state TV 1433 GMT: A former Israeli minister who has close ties with the Egyptian regime said on Friday that embattled President Hosni Mubarak had told him, shortly before making last night's televised speech that he was looking for an "honorable exit." Speaking to Israeli army radio, Labour MP Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, until recently a minister, said he had spoken to Mubarak by phone shortly before his address to the nation. "He knows it's over, that it is the end of the road. He didn't tell me anything before his speech, except that he was looking for a way out," Ben-Eliezer said. 1427 GMT: It tells you something when Iraq is considered a safer place to be than where you are. News from the Baghdad office: The Iraqi government is offering money and free flights to Iraqi citizens in Egypt who want to escape the raging protests. More than 1,700 Iraqis have so far taken up the offer to return home, making use of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's personal plane and one provided by transport ministry. Families who opt to stay in Egypt are also to receive financial support. 1409 GMT: Mohammed Abdellah, a spokesman for the ruling National Democratic Party, tells our reporter that the president and his family are in the resort.

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