Protests in Cairo continue

epa02565012 Protesters gather behind a gap in a barbed wire barricade in a street as Egyptian soldiers check them before they enter Tahrir Square in Cairo, on 05 February 2011. Anti-government protests entered their 12th straight day in Egypt, as solutions were being mulled to bring about a power shift to end the country’s political paralysis. Thousands of protesters slept in Cairo’s central Tahrir Square, camping out in tents and defying a curfew, while many others streamed to the area in the morning, refusing to relent on their core demand that President Hosni Mubarak step down. EPA/Hannibal Hanschke