The nation's leaders have allowed demonstrations to interrupt their sleep for the last two nights.

Jordan, where anti-American and antiwar feelings are also running high, has so far allowed demonstrations against an attack on Iraq.

Some Damascus-based opposition leaders say the reforms, which include laws ostensibly allowing demonstrations and political parties, are a start, but not enough.

Later Angela Merkel called upon all involved, and especially the Egyptian government and the president, to allow peaceful demonstrations, to give freedom of opinion a chance.

President Thein Sein signs a law allowing peaceful demonstrations for the first time.

This allowed demonstrations of the design before the companies made more costly investments in manufacturing equipment and tooling to build production representative prototypes for the demonstration phase.

Hungary paved the way for political opposition to the Communist authorities today when Parliament voted to allow independent parties and public demonstrations.

Burmese President Thein Sein has signed a law allowing peaceful demonstrations for the first time, state media report.

Chinese police journals are now filled with advice about "managing" rather than "crushing" protests, allowing peaceful demonstrations to proceed and detaining only the ringleaders afterward.

Louis Enricht blamed the failure on the machine having been dismantled and reassembled, however the judge refused to allow further demonstrations in court.