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  • 7/4/2013
The armed forces ousted Egypt's first democratically elected president Wednesday after just a year in power, installing a temporary civilian government, suspending the constitution and calling for new elections. Islamist President Mohammed Morsi denounced it as a "full coup" by the military. “I’m extremely happy,” said Nivine Hisham, an anti-Morsi protester who was in Tahrir Square at the time of the announcement. “People were praying, singing,” she told CBC News by phone from Cairo. Moments after the army statement, a statement on the Egyptian president's office's Twitter account quoted Morsi as saying the military's measures "represent a full coup categorically rejected by all the free men of our nation." Morsi has insisted his legitimacy as an elected president must not be violated or Egypt could be thrown into violence. Some of his Islamist backers, tens of thousands of whom took to the streets in recent days, have vowed to fight to the end. "One mistake that cannot be accepted, and I say this as president of all Egyptians, is to take sides," he said in the statement issued by his office." Read more international news: http://janoduniya.tv/international

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