Politics

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** FILE ** Leading democracy advocate Mohammed ElBaradei, during an interview with the media at his home on the outskirts of Cairo on Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012, says dialogue with Egyptian Islamist President Mohammed Morsi is not possible until Mr. Morsi rescinds the decrees giving himself near-absolute powers. Mr. ElBaradei, a Nobel Peace laureate for his past work as the head of the U.N. nuclear agency, has formed a National Salvation Front with other liberal and secular leaders, trying to unify the opposition against Mr. Morsi. (AP Photo/Thomas Hartwell)

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In this Friday, Nov. 23, 2012 photo released by the Egyptian Presidency, President Mohammed Morsi, center right, waves to supporters outside the Presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt's official news agency says that the country's highest body of judges has called the president's recent decrees an "unprecedented assault on the independence of the judiciary and its rulings." In a statement carried on MEAN Saturday, the Supreme Judicial Council says they regret the declarations President Mohammed Morsi issued Thursday.(AP Photo/Egyptian Presidency)

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FILE - In this Saturday, Oct. 2, 2004 file photo, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat pauses during an emergency cabinet session, at his compound, in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Palestinian official says the remains of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will be exhumed on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012 to enable foreign experts to take samples as part of a probe into his death. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen, File)

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Palestinian schoolchildren walk in debris by a damaged school in Gaza City, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012. Schools in Gaza opened Saturday for the first time since the truce, which calls for an end to Gaza rocket fire on Israel and Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, came after eight days of cross-border fighting, the bloodiest between Israel and Hamas in four years. The school was damaged when Israeli forces struck on a nearby building. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

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Palestinian relatives cry during a funeral of Ibrahim Abu Nasr, 61, and his daughter Amira, 19, in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012. The father and his daughter were killed in an Israeli air strike yesterday, Palestinian health officials said. (AP Photo/Hatem Omar)

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**FILE** Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks Nov. 16, 2012, during a meeting of the Palestinian leadership at his compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (Associated Press)

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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syria President Bashar Assad, right, meets with the speaker of the Iranian parliament, Ali Larijani (left) in Damascus, Syria, on Nov. 23, 2012. Larijani was in Damascus where he held talks with Assad and other officials before flying on to neighboring Lebanon. (Associated Press/SANA)

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**FILE** Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani waves Oct. 23, 2012, to the crowd as he arrives with Gaza's Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh for a corner-stone laying ceremony for a Qatari-funded rehabilitation center in Gaza City. (Associated Press)

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Smoke rises Nov. 23, 2012, in Gaza City from the Hamas government building known as Abu Khadra, which was destroyed in an Israeli air strike two days prior. (Associated Press)

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Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi speaks to supporters outside the Presidential palace in Cairo on Nov. 23, 2012. Opponents and supporters of Mohammed Morsi clashed across Egypt, the day after the president granted himself sweeping new powers that critics fear can allow him to be a virtual dictator. (Associated Press)