For the third consecutive day Egypt has witnessed nationwide protests with further indications it will continue through Friday.

Although Facebook has returned a few hours ago Mubarak's regime blocked the popular social networking website, Facebook.

Thousands of Egyptians are scheduled to take to the streets on January 25 Day of Rage demonstration at the invitation of the "6 April Youth" group.

Under the slogan "Together, on 25 January for Freedom, Justice, and Citizenship," 17 political parties and forces issued a statement, calling on Egyptians to participate in a demonstration scheduled for

The Salafi Movement for Change announced its participation in the Day of Wrath next Tuesday. The movement also said in its statement that it had

Jordanians engaged in a mass sit in where more than 3,000 Jordanian trade unionists, Islamists and leftists sat outside parliament protesting against the government's economic policies.

The mass demonstrations in Tunisia did not just happen overnight; resentment has been brewing for some time in the country.

In the past few hours, the chronic symptoms of our political malaise got worse. It is the same old story, the same miserable ailment that has been taking its toll

Protesters in parts of Egypt pointed to natural gas exports to Israel as the reason for blackouts in their country, an opposition group said.

Egyptian opposition parties and political movements staged protest marches on Wednesday in Cairo 's poorest area the Matareya district demonstrating their anger over escalating bread prices.