{{Egypt’s interim head of state has set a speedy timetable for elections to drag the Arab world’s biggest country from crisis, after the military ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi last week sparked a wave of bloody protests.}}<\/p>\n
A decree issued by Adli Mansour pointed to a parliamentary ballot within about six months with a presidential vote to follow. However, it was faulted for repeating flaws in the 2011 transition plan that contributed to the current crisis.<\/p>\n
{{The need for a political breakthrough is pressing.}}<\/p>\n
At least 51 people were killed on Monday when the army opened fire on Mursi supporters camped outside Cairo’s Republican Guard barracks where the deposed leader is believed to be held.<\/p>\n
The military said it opened fire in response to an attack by armed assailants. On Friday, clashes between pro- and anti-Mursi supporters swept Egypt and left 35 dead.<\/p>\n
Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood movement called for more protests on Tuesday, raising the risk of further violence, although an umbrella group representing anti-Mursi protesters said they would not demonstrate.<\/p>\n
The bloodshed has shocked Egyptians, already tired of the turbulence that began 2-1\/2 years ago with the overthrow of autocrat Hosni Mubarak in a popular uprising.<\/p>\n
It also raised alarm among key donors like the United States and the European Union, as well as in Israel, with which Egypt has had a U.S.-backed peace treaty since 1979.<\/p>\n
Millions of people took to the streets on June 30 to demand Mursi’s resignation, fearing he was orchestrating a creeping Islamist takeover of the state – a charge the Brotherhood has vehemently denied.<\/p>\n
But for many Islamists, the overthrow of Egypt’s first freely elected president was a bitter reversal that raised fears of a return to the suppression they endured for decades under autocratic rulers like Mubarak.<\/p>\n
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