03/07/2013
Egyptian military ousts Morsi, suspends constitution
pCAIRO ? The Egyptian military removed President Mohamed Morsi from power Wednesday and suspended the constitution in moves it said were aimed at resolving a data-xslt="_http" href="http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/world/military-rule-in-egypt/289/?hpid=z3"the country?s debilitating political crisis./a/ppIn a televised address to the nation after a meeting with a group of civilian political and religious leaders, the head of the powerful armed forces, a data-xslt="_http" href="http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/world/main-players-in-the-egypt-crisis/298/?hpid=z3"Gen. Abdel Fatah al-Sissi/a, said the chief of Egypt?s constitutional court ?will assume the presidency? on an interim basis until a new presidential election is held. Sissi said the interim president ? Adly Mansour, Egypt?s top judicial authority ? will have the right to decree laws during the transitional period./pa href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/egypts-morsi-defiant-under-pressure-as-deadline-looms/2013/07/03/28fda81c-e39d-11e2-80eb-3145e2994a55_story.html?wprss=rss_world"Read full article #62;#62;/aimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636708/s/2e20ab93/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fegypts-morsi-defiant-under-pressure-as-deadline-looms%2F2013%2F07%2F03%2F28fda81c-e39d-11e2-80eb-3145e2994a55_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Egyptian+military+ousts+Morsi%2C+suspends+constitution" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fegypts-morsi-defiant-under-pressure-as-deadline-looms%2F2013%2F07%2F03%2F28fda81c-e39d-11e2-80eb-3145e2994a55_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Egyptian+military+ousts+Morsi%2C+suspends+constitution" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fegypts-morsi-defiant-under-pressure-as-deadline-looms%2F2013%2F07%2F03%2F28fda81c-e39d-11e2-80eb-3145e2994a55_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Egyptian+military+ousts+Morsi%2C+suspends+constitution" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fegypts-morsi-defiant-under-pressure-as-deadline-looms%2F2013%2F07%2F03%2F28fda81c-e39d-11e2-80eb-3145e2994a55_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Egyptian+military+ousts+Morsi%2C+suspends+constitution" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fegypts-morsi-defiant-under-pressure-as-deadline-looms%2F2013%2F07%2F03%2F28fda81c-e39d-11e2-80eb-3145e2994a55_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Egyptian+military+ousts+Morsi%2C+suspends+constitution" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165668141592/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2e20ab93/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/165668141592/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2e20ab93/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/165668141592/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2e20ab93/a2t.img" border="0"/
