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Boys peep through a wall that police have built to block the streets on Sunday, to prevent clashes after Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi issued a decree temporarily widening his powers and shielding his decisions from judicial review, at Tahrir Square in Cairo, November 26, 2012 Asmaa Waguih/Reuters
Protesters hurl stones during clashes between supporters and opponents of President Mohammed Morsi in Alexandria, Egypt, Nov. 23, 2012. Opponents and supporters of Mohammed Morsi clashed across Egypt the day after the president granted himself sweeping new powers that critics fear can allow him to be a virtual dictator. Thousands from the two camps threw stones and chunks of marble at each other outside a mosque in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria after Friday Muslim prayers. Tarek Fawzy/AP
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi speaks to supporters outside the Presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 23, 2012. Aly Hazaza/AP
General view of tents in Tahrir square as protesters and activists continue with their sit-in, in Cairo, November 25, 2012. More than 500 people have been injured in protests so far, when Egyptians awoke to news President Morsi had issued a decree temporarily widening his powers and shielding his decisions from judicial review. Asmaa Waguih/Reuters
Protesters chant slogans against Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi during a demonstration at Tahrir square in Cairo November 23, 2012. Morsi's decree that put his decisions above legal challenge until a new parliament was elected caused fury amongst his opponents who accused him of being the new Hosni Mubarak and hijacking the revolution. Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters
Protesters run from riot police during clashes at Tahrir square in Cairo November 23, 2012. Police fired tear gas in a street leading to Cairo's Tahrir Square, heart of the 2011 anti-Mubarak uprising, where thousands demanded President Morsi quit and accused him of launching a "coup". There were violent protests in Alexandria, Port Said and Suez. Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters
A Coptic Christian priest enters St Mark's Cathedral during a ceremony to select the new pope of the Egypt's Coptic Christians on November 4, 2012 in Cairo, Egypt. Bishop Tawadros was announced as the new pope after his name was picked from a bowl by a blindfolded child as part of the selection process during the ceremony. Ann Hermes/Staff
Egyptian Sea Scouts cheer with the crowd as Bishop Tawadros is announced as the new pope of Egypt's Coptic Christians on November 4, 2012 in Cairo. Ann Hermes/Staff
Egyptian lawyers raise their hands during a Coptic Christian prayer at a protest in Tahrir Square on Sunday, February 6, 2011. Ann Hermes/Staff
An Egyptian man walks past a newly painted mural depicting an Egyptian man who was killed during the revolution, on a newly whitewashed wall in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Sept. 20, 2012. A few municipality workers quietly began to paint over an icon of Egypt's revolution: a giant, elaborate public mural on the street that saw some of the most violent clashes between protesters and police over the past two years. Arabic reads "The martyr Mohammed Seri." Nasser Nasser/AP
Egyptian protesters wearing Guy Fawkes masks pose for a photo in front of graffiti on a wall at the US embassy during a protest in Cairo, Egypt, Sept. 11, 2012. Nasser Nasser/AP
Palestinian smugglers bring sheep through a smuggling tunnel from Egypt to the Gaza Strip in the Rafah refugee camp Nov. 13, 2010, southern Gaza Strip. Hamas had hoped the Islamists who took charge in Egypt this summer -- fellow members of the region's Muslim Brotherhood -- would swiftly turn their shared border crossing into a free-flowing trade route, ending Gaza's five-year isolation from the world and making the tunnels obsolete. Eyad Baba/AP
An Egyptian woman holds a black flag with Islamic inscription in Arabic that reads, "No God but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet," in front of the US embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Sept. 12, 2012. Nasser Nasser/AP
In this picture taken by semi-official Mehr News Agency, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi (r.) addresses a summit of the Nonaligned Movement as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon (l.) looks on and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (center r.) confers with Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi (c.) and an unidentified man in Tehran, Iran, Aug. 30, 2012. Mehr News Agency/AP
An Al-Azhar sheikh explains some papers in the courtyard of the Al-Azhar adminstrative building, in Cairo September 10, 2012. A proposal by ultraconservative Salafis to give Egypt's main Islamic institution the final say on whether the law of the land adheres to Islamic law threatens to bring the already painfully slow process of drafting the new constitution to a grinding halt. Asmaa Waguih/Reuters
Female protesters hold signs as they call for a greater representation in writing the constitution in Cairo September 10, 2012. Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters
Anti-Morsi protesters hold a large Egyptian flag and chant slogans in front of the presidential palace during a demonstration in Cairo, August 24, 2012. Opponents of Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi scuffled with his supporters on Friday during a demonstration that posed the first test of the Islamist leader's popularity on the street. Asmaa Waguih/Reuters
Abd Elrahman Elbar (l.) and Saeed Abd Elazeem (2nd l.), members of the committee drafting Egypt's new constitution, speak at the Shura Council in Cairo September 11, 2012. Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters
An Egyptian protester wears a sticker over her mouth with an Arabic slogan that reads " freedom for the revolution prisoners" during a protest calling for the release of those detained by military or civilian courts since the 25th of January, 2011 uprising that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo, Egypt, Aug. 31, 2012. Amr Nabil/AP
A protester throws a tear gas canister, which was earlier thrown by riot police, during clashes along a road which leads to the US embassy, near Tahrir Square in Cairo September 13, 2012. Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi said on Thursday he supported peaceful protest but not attacks on embassies. Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters
Protesters take a rest during a sit-in against Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi in front of the presidential palace in Cairo August 25, 2012. A group of protesters continued a sit-in outside Egypt's presidential palace, demonstrating against what they call a power grab by the Muslim Brotherhood and the candidate they supported, Mohamed Morsi, who took office in early July. Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters
Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi answers reporters' questions after meeting European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (unseen) at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels September 13, 2012. Morsi is in Brussels hoping to reassure the European Union of his democratic credentials and win pledges of economic aid. Francois Lenoir/Reuters
Egyptian security personnel set up wires in front of Al-Etehadeya presidential palace during protests in Cairo August 24, 2012. Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters
Egyptians crowd at Al-Hussein historical site under decoration marking the Islamic holy month of Ramadan in Cairo, Egypt, July 30, 2012. Amr Nabil/AP
Egyptian soldiers stand guard at a checkpoint in Rafah city on the Egyptian border, August 6, 2012. Islamist gunmen killed at least 15 Egyptian police and seized two military vehicles to attack a crossing point into Israel, the deadliest incident in Egypt's tense Sinai border region in decades. Reuters
A street vendor hangs a T-shirt showing Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi with Arabic that reads, “ for a better future,” at Tahrir Square, the focal point of Egyptian uprising, in Cairo, Egypt, July 19, 2012. Amr Nabil/AP
Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood take part in a protest at Tahrir square in Cairo June 21, 2012. Allegations of fraud delayed the result of Egypt's presidential election, fraying nerves as the Muslim Brotherhood, which claims victory, called for street protests against moves by the ruling generals to deny them power. Suhaib Salem/Reuters
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President Mohamed Morsi has asked the military, whose power he curtailed earlier this year, to help keep the peace as Egypt's Dec. 15 constitutional referendum nears.
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