Good morning. Welcome to Middle East live. The Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi, is trying to avert the crisis over his new decree granting him wide-ranging powers after more violence over the weekend.
Egypt
• Morsi is due to meet senior judges to try to reach a compromise over the decree, viewed by many as a power grab. His opponents want the decree to be cancelled but Egypt's highest judicial authority has hinted at a compromise. The Supreme Judicial Council said Morsi's decree should apply only to "sovereign matters", suggesting it did not reject the declaration outright, and called on judges and prosecutors, some of whom began a strike on Sunday, to return to work. Morsi has tried to defuse the backlash by calling for dialogue with political opponents.
• More than 500 people have been injured in clashes between anti-Morsi protesters, police and supporters of the president. One Muslim Brotherhood member was killed and 60 people were hurt on Sunday in an attack on the main office of the Brotherhood in the Egyptian Nile Delta town of Damanhour, the website of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party said.
• Egypt's stock market plunged yesterday in its first day open since Mursi issued the decree late on Thursday. Its fall of nearly 10% - halted only by automatic curbs - was the worst since the uprising that toppled Mubarak in February, 2011.
• The chairman of the Shura council, the upper house of the Egyptian parliament, has criticised the decree. Ahmed Fahmi's comment are significant because, not only is he a member of the Freedom and Justice party, which Morsi leads, but he is also a relative of the president. Fahmi said the declaration"has severely divided the nation into Islamists and civilians."
Syria
• The Russian Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev, has criticised France's support for the Syrian opposition. In his comments, before a visit to Paris, he said France's decision to recognise the new opposition council as the sole representative of the people - France was the first European power to do so - was "unacceptable". He told French journalists:
The desire to change a political regime in another state through recognition of some political force as the sole sovereign representative seems to me not entirely civilised.
• Syrian rebels captured a helicopter base just outside Damascus on Sunday, activists said. The director of the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdul-Rahman, said rebels seized control of the Marj al-Sultan base on the outskirts of Damascus on Sunday morning. He said at least 15 rebels and eight soldiers were killed in the fighting that started a day earlier. The rebels later withdrew from the base. He described it as "a blow to the morale of the regime, because it is close to the heart of the capital".
• At least eight children were killed when Syrian warplanes bombed the village of Deir al-Asafir just outside the Damascus, activists said. The Observatory said he bombardment of the village killed eight children. Another activist group, the Revolution Command Council said 10 children were killed when warplanes struck the village as they played outdoors. An amateur video showed two girls lying dead in a street while the bodies of two bloodied dead boys were in the back seat of a car parked nearby. Several other wounded children were seen rushed for treatment. AP said activist videos appeared genuine and corresponded to other reporting about the events depicted.
Kuwait
• A decree issued by Kuwait's emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al Sabah, that changes voting rules, thereby weakening the opposition, has stirred signs of the Arab Spring in the oil-rich nation, Ian Black writes:
The opposition is a coalition of youth groups, disgruntled tribes and Islamists. Many sport orange ribbons – a nod to the revolution in distant Ukraine. Social media play a vital role. The Twitter hashtag #KarametWatan ("dignity of the nation") has been used with stunning effect to organise protests and outwit the government.
Palestinian territories
• The UK government is to have a fresh debate on whether it should vote to recognise Palestine as a sovereign state. The UN will this month consider an application by the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, for observer status, which would imply recognition of the territory as a sovereign state, something Israel and the US have opposed. The UK plans to abstain on 29 November, but the Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, is to urge his Conservative coalition partners to change their vote to "yes".
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