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Egypt looks set to be the main focus today as protests are expected across the country over President Mohamed Morsi's decision to grant himself sweeping new powers.
Here's a roundup of the latest developments
Egypt
• Egypt's president, Mohamed Morsi, has granted himself far-reaching powers and immunity from legal oversight. In a surprise move the Muslim Brotherhood leader issued a series of measures preventing Egypt's courts from challenging any laws or decrees passed since he assumed office in June.
• Opposition leaders called for protests in Tahrir Square and across Egypt over what they branded Morsi's "total coup against legitimacy," the Egypt Independent reports. They made the call during a meeting at Wafd Party headquarters attended by a number of high profile political leaders including Mohamed ElBaradei and the former presidential candidates Hamdeen Sabbahy and Amr Moussa.
• A translation of the full text of Morsi's sweeping constitutional decalaration is published by the the Ahram Online. These are the key passages:
Previous constitutional declarations, laws, and decrees made by the president since he took office on 30 June 2012, until the constitution is approved and a new People's Assembly [lower house of parliament] is elected, are final and binding and cannot be appealed by any way or to any entity.
The President may take the necessary actions and measures to protect the country and the goals of the revolution.
• In the long run Morsi's power grab could conceivably help promote democratic institutions, but it's a perverse way of achieving this, writes Nathan Brown for the Arabist.
The substance of the decisions is not all bad news for those who hope for a democratic transition. The prosecutor general who has been dismissed was an old-regime holdover trusted by few people. The Constituent Assembly, constantly threatened with dissolution by court order, was working in a manner that seemed to deepen divisions. Non-Islamists were having trouble breaking themselves of the habit of praying for foreign, military, or judicial intervention and Islamists had depleted the very limited supply of amity they had brought to the transition. Trials of old regime elements had clearly gone awry and victims of military and security force brutality been abandoned. Morsi's moves work to address these issues ...
Perhaps he will use his authority to protect a process that will build a functioning democratic and pluralistic system. That is not impossible. But it's an odd way to build a democracy.
Syria
• Rebels seized a key military base with artillery stockpiles in eastern Syria on Thursday, strengthening their hold in an oil-rich strategic province bordering Iraq, activists said. The rebels have made advances in Deir Ezzor province recently, and the capture of the Mayadeen base followed the seizure of a military airport in the same area last week.
• The Gaza conflict has highlighted the shrinking influence of Syria as it is stuck in a bloody and unstoppable war, writes Ian Black.
Bashar al-Assad, looks distinctly like yesterday's man ...
Hamas finally abandoned its Damascus headquarters this year, unable to stand the contradiction between demands for Palestinian freedom and the brutal suppression of the Syrian uprising. In early November, the Syrian security authorities closed the Hamas offices.
Gaza/Israel
• Hamas has emerged as the victor in the eight day conflict in the eyes of many Palestinians, writes Chris McGreal. The lesson learned is that standing up to Israel delivers results that years of concessions under US peace plans and drawn-out negotiations have not, has become the view.
• The Israeli government claimed the eight-day military offensive in Gaza achieved its goal of restoring calm to the south of the country in the face of public scepticism and political criticism. Shaul Mofaz, head of the Kadima party and leader of the opposition, said: "The goals were not achieved ... Deterrence was not restored. There was no resolution. Hamas achieved exactly what it wanted."
Libya/Qatar
• Libya's UN ambassador claims that Qatari officials bragged of "beautiful nights" spent in the company of Libyan girls during last year's revolution and looting biological weapons from abandoned military sites, the Libya Herald reports. In a new book he says Qatari officers took over abandoned military sites near Sirte and seized remnants of biological weapons.
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