Officials to release results of election
CAIRO — Egypt will release results from disputed presidential elections Sunday, the country’s top elections commission official said. The announcement will put an end to the country’s uncertainty about who is the official winner, but promises no resolution to the power struggles between Islamists, the military, and other factions. On Saturday, a gathering of secular-leaning politicians criticized what they said was the meddling by the United States on behalf of the Muslim Brotherhood, which has asserted victory. Other secularists have stood behind the Islamist group, calling it the best alternative to continued military domination of the country. Mohammed Morsi, the Brotherhood’s candidate, and Ahmed Shafiq, the last prime minister of ousted leader Hosni Mubarak, have both claimed victory. (AP)
8 tourists are killed after bus rolls over
ZAGREB — At least eight Czech tourists were killed and 44 injured when a bus crashed and overturned on a major highway in Croatia Saturday, police said. The accident happened around 4 a.m. about 125 miles south of Zagreb, on a highway connecting the Croatian capital with the central Adriatic coastal city of Split. Croatia’s state television said the bus crashed through metal barriers in the middle of the highway, and overturned in the opposite lane near a tunnel. Witness reports suggested that the driver fell asleep, officials said. (AP)
Police chief orders protester crackdown
KHARTOUM — Sudan’s police chief ordered his forces Saturday to “firmly and immediately’’ quell antigovernment demonstrations that have entered their seventh day, while opposition groups reported a security crackdown on their leading members. General Hashem Othman al-Hussein told his aides to confront the rioters and the groups behind them, the SUNA news agency reported. It was a rare acknowledgment by the state media of demonstrations over government austerity, which have been concentrated in Khartoum but have spread to a provincial capital. (AP)