CAIRO: Opponents and supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi blasted a new charter granting Egypt’s interim president extensive powers, as talks for a new cabinet were to begin on Wednesday.

The military’s ouster a week ago of Morsi, after massive protests calling for his resignation, pushed the divided country into a vortex of violence that has already claimed dozens of lives.

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