Cairo, Amman, Baghdad, Sanaa' and Across Libya ...

Tens of thousands of people have gathered in a main square in the Yemeni capital for prayers that are expected to be followed by mass protests to press demands for Ali Abdullah Saleh, the country's longtime president, to step down...
Anti-government demonstrations erupted in Jordan in January to protest against the rising cost of living ... The fresh instability and anti-government protests spreading through the region are threatening to ensnare Egypt and Jordan.
Egypt's new military rulers, promising to guard against "counter-revolution", faced political pressure on Friday to purge the cabinet of ministers appointed by Hosni Mubarak (headed by PM Chafik and FM Abul Gheit) the deposed president, as thousands of protesters gathered in Cairo.
On the eve of the rally that will also celebrate two weeks since Mubarak's removal, the military, which has promised elections within six months, assured Egyptians there would be "no return to the past" of the Mubarak era.
At a gathering at Tahrir Square, which was also to remind the military of the people power that ended Mubarak's 30-year rule, activists urged the military to overhaul the newly appointed cabinet and install a fresh team of technocrats.
On Friday, Jordan deployed more than 3,000 security personnel across central Amman, braced for a planned "day of anger" by a powerful opposition movement and other parties. (and), dozens of supporters of the Hashemite royal family gathered outside Al-Husseini Mosque, in the heart of Amman...
Meanwhile on Friday, hundreds of Iraqis converged on Baghdad's Liberation Square as part of an anti-government rally named the Day of Rage ..."