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Offices of the Muslim Brotherhood’s political wing have been burnt by protesters marching against Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi’s recent power grab. Morsi now claims to have almost total power– including that which shields him from the country’s supreme court.

An FJP official told AFP the party’s office was also stormed in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, where clashes broke out between rival demonstrators.

In Cairo, an array of liberal and secular groups, including activists at the forefront of the protest movement that forced veteran strongman Hosni Mubarak from power early last year, planned to march on Tahrir Square, Cairo’s iconic protest hub, to demonstrate against the “ new pharaoh” .