Monsour Backtracks: ElBaradei Not Appointed PM

Interim Egyptian President Adly Monsour backtracked on Saturday night, and said that ElBaradei was not appointed as Prime Minister of Egypt, following the military coup that deposed the democratically elected Muslim Bortherhood leader Mohammed Morsi.

The appointment was opposed by the strict Islamic party Salafi al-Nour, and the newly appointed Eyptian president apparently decided to not oppose them.

There have been violent clashes in the streets of Cairo between supporters and opponents of Morsi and the revolutionaries.