More funerals on Sunday for Saturday's dead in Egypt

More funerals are being held on Sunday for those killed in protests throughout Egypt on Saturday.

There is no accurate count of the scores of dead or the many thousands of injured, yet.

On Sunday morning, the Egyptian Minister of Information — the one who was supposed to have resigned with the rest of the entire Mubarak cabinet on Saturday morning — revoked the press credentials and the required licenses for Al-Jazeera to work in Egypt.

However, no move had been made to shut them down by noontime.

UPDATE: an hour later, Al-Jazeera was taken off Nilesat, an Egyptian-owned and operated satellite TV channel…

Al-Jazeera said via Twitter that it would be covering the situation in Egypt from headquarters in Qatar, and sent out a via Twitter of its journalists who would continue to follow the situation on the ground where they were throughout Egypt.

All journalists sending out Tweets on Sunday morning said that there was a noticeable change in the atmosphere, with more Army units on the streets, and helicopters flying low overhead.

The 200 demonstrators who slept overnight in Tahrir (Liberation) Square were the only ones there, apparently, as the Army was blocking access to any citizens wanting to enter the square on Sunday morning.

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