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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/egypts-president-returns-to-his-cairo-palace-after-mass-rally-protesters-hold-sit-in-outside/2012/12/05/1009fd2c-3ec2-11e2-8a5c-473797be602c_story.html

Egypt's President Returns to Cairo Palace after Mass Protest

(AP-Washington Post) An Egyptian official says President Mohammed Morsi has returned to his Cairo palace on Wednesday, a day after he left it through a back gate as tens of thousands of angry protesters besieged the complex demanding he rescind decrees giving him sweeping powers. About 300 opposition supporters are camped out in front of the palace's main gate. The president's Nov. 22 decrees and the adoption by his allies of a controversial draft constitution have plunged Egypt into its worst political crisis since president Hosni Mubarak's overthrow.

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