The only sound was the gentle clicking of fingers on keyboards – they were translating the military declaration into English.
Opponents of an Egyptian military declaration seeking to curtail the powers of the next president are to stage a mass demonstration in Cairo later today.
Kaliningrad is already packed full of arms, and Polish prime minister Donald Tusk was right when he said Medvedev's was "a political, not a military, declaration".
The first elected doge, or duke, was Orso, chosen in an anti-Byzantine military declaration in 727, but he was succeeded by Byzantine officials until about 751, when the exarchate of Ravenna came to an end.
It seems that state-run TV (Maspero) is making its own move against Morsi, now focusing on anti- MB demonstrations — Ahmed Ateyya (@Ateyya) 1 Jul 13 Bassem Sabry, a Cairene political commentator, suggested that the timing of the military declaration, coming only 24 hours before the next round of opposition protests, seemed certain to encourage the president's opponents.
The convoy attack, military declaration and bombings were the strongest signs yet of the gradual unraveling of a broader agreement between Russia and the United States aimed at restarting peace talks to end the conflict in Syria, which has killed an estimated 500,000 people and displaced millions.
Gaber Nassar, a professor of constitutional law at Cairo University, said that Mr. Morsi has had the right to abolish the military's declaration since the first day of his presidency.
Secretary of State John Kerry challenged the Syrian military's declaration that the cease-fire was over, suggesting that the United States would hold Russia responsible for seeing that President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, one of its principal allies, implemented it.
With the Supreme Court's ruling dissolving Parliament and the military's declaration curtailing the presidency's authority, Mr. Morsi will be a toothless figurehead under the thumb of an authoritarian military council that doesn't seem likely to relinquish power anytime soon.
