Fresh clashes have broken out in Egypt over President Mohamed Morsi's new 'pharaoh' powers.
Police fired tear gas and hundreds of protesters pelted them with rocks on a street between the US Embassy and Tahrir Square, the birthplace of the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian regime nearly two years ago.
And in the Nile Delta city of Damanhoor a 15-year-old boy was reportedly killed and at least 40 people were wounded when a group of anti-Morsi protesters tried to storm the local offices of the political arm of the president's Muslim Brotherhood party.
People have been protesting since Friday night to demand Mr Morsi reverses a decree that made him immune to oversight of any kind, including that of the courts.
A huge rally was due to take place in Tahrir Square on Tuesday afternoon.
Protesters in Tahrir Square Mr Morsi's declaration made all his decisions immune to judicial review and banned the courts from dissolving the upper house of parliament and an assembly writing the new constitution, both of which are dominated by Islamists.
The decree also gave him sweeping authority to stop any "threats" to the revolution.
The move led to him being referred to as the new pharaoh.
A new banner declaring: "The Brotherhood stole the country" has been erected in Tahrir Square, and opposition figures have vowed to continue the protests until Mr Morsi reverses the decree.
The president's supporters cancelled a massive rally they had planned for Tuesday, citing the need to "defuse tension".
But a spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood said demonstrations supporting the president could go ahead outside the capital and that supporters would form human chains in some provinces to protect Brotherhood offices.
Mr Morsi's supporters say more than a dozen of their offices have been ransacked or set ablaze since Friday.
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