Youths clashed with police in Cairo on Saturday as protests at new powers
assumed by President
Mohamed Mursi stretched into a second day, confronting Egypt with a crisis that
has exposed the split between newly empowered Islamists and their opponents.
A handful of hardcore activists hurling
rocks battled riot police in the streets near Tahrir Square, where several
thousand protesters massed on Friday to demonstrate against a decree that has
rallied opposition ranks against Mursi.
Following a day of violence in Cairo,
Alexandria, Port Said and Suez, the smell of teargas hung over the square, the
heart of the uprising that swept Hosni Mubarak from power in February
2011.
More than 300 people were injured on
Friday. Offices of the Muslim Brotherhood, which propelled Mursi to power, were
attacked in at least three cities.
Egypt's highest judicial authority said the decree marked an
"unprecedented attack" on the independence of the judiciary, the state news
agency reported. Read more
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