Egypt’s military leaders issued a constitutional decree Sunday that gave
the armed forces sweeping powers and degraded the presidency to a
subservient role, as early counts of ballots in the country’s
presidential runoff showed the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate in the
lead.
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