An official dinner in Switzerland for the Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been cancelled after she complained of jet lag and exhaustion. A spokesman for the Swiss foreign ministry said she was simply tired. Ms Suu Kyi is on her first visit to Europe for 24 years. On Friday, she's due to travel to Norway to receive a Nobel peace prize she was awarded in 1991.
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Demonstrators have been making their way to Tahrir Square in Cairo after the Egyptian constitutional court ruled that last year's elections breached the constitution and should be rerun. Jon Leyne reports from Cairo.
紧接着埃及立宪法院宣布去年的总统选举违宪,需重新选举,抗议者纷纷涌向开罗塔利尔 广场。Jon Leyne从开罗报道。
With the Supreme Constitutional Court surrounded by barricades and with soldiers and police keeping out protesters, the judges gave what may be the most important ruling in their history. First they confirmed that Ahmed Shafik can stand in this weekend's presidential election despite a law banning former Mubarak regime officials. Then the real bombshell - the court ruled that the parliamentary elections last year were unconstitutional. The chief judge then made it clear he believed parliament should be dissolved and the whole election rerun. The Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate Mohamed Morsi said that the decision had to be respected though another senior Muslim Brotherhood figure condemned it as a full-fledged coup and vowed to fight it whatever the cost.