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(All times are local in Egypt, GMT+2)
12:18pm Military has been firing into the air to disperse a protest in front of the interior ministry. A source told Al Jazeera that 500 police protesters had gathered to call for higher wages and to protest against the senior officials of the police force for destroying the credibility and image of the police.
12:08pm Our correspondent Hoda Abdel-Hamid says a small demonstration chanting "the people and the police are one" entered Tahrir Square a short while ago but was booed out by the remaining pro-democracy protesters.
11:35am In Alexandria, a few hundreds of workers at Bank of Alexandria are holding a protest, demanding details be released about the banks sale by the state to the private sector. Also, several hundred workers from the building company The Arab Contractors, used for almost all major construction projects by the state, are protesting in downtown Alexandria demanding better pay.
10:45am The cabinet, appointed when Hosni Mubarak was still in office, will not undergo a major reshuffle and will stay to oversee a political transformation in the coming months, the cabinet spokesman says.
"The shape of the government will stay until the process of transformation is done in a few months, then a new government will be appointed based on the democratic principles in place," the spokesman told Reuters, adding that it was possible some portfolios could change hands in that period.
9:18am Our correspondent James Bays says there have been some "very small scuffles" as troops tried to get protesters to leave Tahrir Square in Cairo.
"I think it reflects a bigger problem," he says. "The military believes that now Mubarak is out, it's time for stability. But some of the protesters think not enough has been done yet. They don't want to clear that square until the army has handed over to a civilian government."
8:39am Soldiers have moved in among protesters still in Tahrir Square, Reuters reports, as traffic started flowing through the square again this morning.
Protesters chanted "Peacefully, peacefully" as the soldiers moved, and a few resisted the line of troops.
"The army is the backbone of Egypt. Their solution is not to remove us from the square. They must respond to our demands," a protester said over loudspeakers.
7:30am Robert Fisk writes in The Independent about how the Mubarak regime used street children in Cairo as pawns during the uprising:
"Children interviewed by The Independent on Sunday, however, have also revealed how Mubarak supporters deliberately brought children to the outskirts of Tahrir Square to throw stones at the pro-democracy supporters, how they persuaded penniless street kids to participate in their pro-Mubarak marches. Swarms of other children forced their way into the square itself because they discovered that the protesters were kind to them, feeding them sandwiches and giving them cigarettes and money."7:20am @ayakhalil's #Egypt "Victory is sweet" cupcakes posted on Twitter: