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Anti-Morsi protests sweep

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Anti-Morsi protests sweep Egypt
By Gregg Carlstrom, Al Jazeera, 30 June, 2013

Hundreds of thousands rally in Cairo and elsewhere seeking president's ouster on first anniversary of his inauguration.

[....] The demonstrations swelled in the evening, as marches from various Cairo neighbourhoods reached the square. Tens of thousands of people also gathered around the presidential palace to press the same demands, chanting “irhal” - “leave” - and waving red cards to symbolically urge Morsi’s ouster.

[....] There were brief clashes reported in Beni Suef in upper Egypt, where one person was killed, and in Tanta in the Nile Delta, according to state media. Two people were killed in Assiut after unknown gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on them.

The Muslim Brotherhood - the movement that Morsi belongs to - also reported that its headquarters in Cairo was attacked by a mob of armed men.

But by late evening, the protests were nonetheless still largely peaceful, defying expectations of widespread violence [....]

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Reuters says millions, with

Anti-Morsi protests sweep