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Title: Egypt's Morsi calls for talks after deadly clashes
Post by: NewsCaster on Dec 07, 2012, 08:31 AM
(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/121206_egyptclashes.photoblog600.jpg)Amr Abdallah Dalsh / ReutersProtesters clash with supporters of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi with Molotov cocktails and stones outside the presidential palace in Cairo on Wednesday night.By NBC News staff and wire reports.Updated at 7 p.m. ET: CAIRO — President Mohamed Morsi on Thursday invited political groups and legal figures to  meet for a national dialogue on solutions to Egypt's political crisis after clashes between his supporters and his foes left seven dead and hundreds wounded.

Follow @NBCNewsWorld (https://twitter.com/NBCNewsWorld)  Morsi did not, however, rescind decrees granting him wide powers that his opponents had demanded, and his overtures on talks were immediately rejected by opposition leaders.

The main office of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood was set ablaze late Thursday, the group's political party said, and another office used by the party was torched in a suburb south of the city, the state news agency reported.

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