Protesters and opposition parties calling for Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi to step down have threatened days of demonstrations and an office of the ruling Muslim Brotherhood has been ransacked.
Millions of people filled Tahrir Square on Sunday night and blocked all the main arteries of the north-west of Cairo, around the presidential palace, called for Mr Morsi to "Arhal", or "Get out". The political rallies were the biggest ever seen in the country.
In Cairo, predictions of a collapse into violence and internecine warfare proved largely unfounded as the protests and a much smaller counter-rally by Mr Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood stayed good-humoured in the main.
But clashes continued this morning in the dormitory village of Moqattam on Cairo's desert fringes where the Brotherhood's national headquarters is based. Full story...
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Millions of people filled Tahrir Square on Sunday night and blocked all the main arteries of the north-west of Cairo, around the presidential palace, called for Mr Morsi to "Arhal", or "Get out". The political rallies were the biggest ever seen in the country.
In Cairo, predictions of a collapse into violence and internecine warfare proved largely unfounded as the protests and a much smaller counter-rally by Mr Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood stayed good-humoured in the main.
But clashes continued this morning in the dormitory village of Moqattam on Cairo's desert fringes where the Brotherhood's national headquarters is based. Full story...
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