Below is part I of coverage highlights from GlobalPost correspondents Jon Jensen and Erin Cunningham who have been reporting from the scene for more than 24 hours

The deadly clashes in Cairo‘s Tahrir Square that erupted Nov. 19 have been escalating, with inuries and deaths mounting by the day.

The reason for the riots? Egyptians are demanding the military-led government to hand over its authority so a citizen-formed government can begin. with thousands of protesters fighting against police demanding the military-led government to hand over its authority to an elected government.

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Below is part I of coverage highlights from GlobalPost correspondents Jon Jensen and Erin Cunningham who have been reporting from the scene for more than 24 hours…

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/middle-east/egypt/111120/live-tahrir-square-part-i

The Associated Press

CAIRO (AP) – Security forces fired tear gas and clashed Monday with several thousand protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in the third straight day of violence that has killed at least 24 people and has turned into the most sustained challenge yet to the rule of Egypt‘s military.

Throughout the day, young activists demanding the military hand over power to a civilian government skirmished with black-clad police, hurling stones and firebombs and throwing back the tear gas canisters being fired by police into the square, which was the epicenter of the protest movement that ousted President Hosni Mubarak in February.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/21/clashes-in-cairo-egypt-tahrir-square_n_1104673.html