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Anti-Morsiprotestsrock Cairo

Egyptian protesters chant anti-Muslim Brotherhood slogans in front of thepresidential palace in Cairo yesterday Picture: Picture: AP

CAIRO: A protest bytens of thousands ofEgyptians outside thepresidential palace inCairo has turned violentas tensions grow over Is-lamist President Mo-hammed Morsi’s seizureof nearly unrestrictedpowers and a draft con-stitution hurriedly adop-ted by his allies.

In a brief outburst,police fired tear gas tostop protesters ap-proaching the palace inthe capital’s Heliopolisdistrict.

Morsi was in the pal-ace while the protestersgathered outside. But heleft for home through a

back door when thecrowds ‘‘grew bigger’’,according to a president-ial official who spoke oncondition of anonymity.

The violence eruptedwhen protesters pushedaside a barricade toppedwith barbed wire closeto the palace walls.

Police fired tear gas,and then retreated.

Protesters also com-mandeered a police van,climbing atop the ar-moured vehicle to wavethe Egyptian flag.

In the coastal city ofAlexandria, some 10,000opponents of Morsi gath-ered in the centre of thecountry’s second largest

metropolis. They chant-ed slogans against theleader and his Islamicfundamentalist group,the Muslim Brother-hood.

The protests were dub-bed ‘‘The Last Warning’’by organisers amid ris-ing anger over the draftcharter and decrees is-sued by Morsi givinghimself sweepingpowers that placed himabove judicial oversight.

Morsi called for a ref-erendum on the draftconstitution on Decem-ber 15. It is Egypt’s worstpolitical crisis since theousting nearly two yearsago of Hosni Mubarak.

UN cuts food aid to SyriaBRUSSELS: The UnitedNations has had to cutfood rations for hun-dreds of thousands ofpeople in conflict-stricken Syria becauseof cash shortages.

The World Food Pro-gram would not give asize for the cuts yes-terday but said more arepossible if it does notget cash.

It estimates it needs$US20 million ($A19.18million) to keep oper-ations going this month.

‘‘We had to reduce thefood rations since weupscaled our food ass-istance from 850,000to reach 1.5 millionpeople in September,’’said Abeer Etefa, aspokeswoman for thefood agency.

Korea endswhale huntSEOUL: South Koreahas confirmed it hasformally dropped itsfiercely criticised planto resume ‘‘scientific’’whaling and adoptednon-lethal means tostudy the mammals inits waters.

Under InternationalWhaling Commission(IWC) rules, a formalproposal for the huntwas required by 3 Dec-ember but no such pro-posal was filed.

‘‘We’ve decided tocarry out ‘no-kill’ scien-tific research and,therefore, it became un-necessary to submitsuch a request,’’ an of-ficial at the fisheriesministry said yester-day. South Korea hadunveiled its plan to re-sume whaling at anIWC meeting in Pana-ma in July this year.

World’s oldest dies in USMONROE, Georgia: Thewoman who was listedas the world’s oldest per-son has died in a USnursing home, aged 116.

Besse Cooper diedpeacefully on Tuesdayafternoon at Monroe,east of Atlanta, Georgia,her son Sidney Coopersaid yesterday.

Mr Cooper said hismother had been ill over

the weekend with a sto-mach virus, then feltbetter on Monday.

On Tuesday he saidshe had her hair set andwatched a Christmasvideo, but later had trou-ble breathing.

He said she was put onoxygen in her room anddied there about 2pm.

She was declared ol-dest person in January.