CAIRO — Millions of demonstrators continued their sit-ins across Egypt on Tuesday [July 2] for the third consecutive day of what is said to be the biggest protest in the history of the volatile nation. Hundreds of thousands surrounded President Mohammed Morsi’s main presidential palaces in eastern Cairo and spray-painted “Game Over” on the gates of the Qubba Palace, where he relocated on Sunday [June 30].
Earlier on Tuesday, a statement by the White House announced the details of US President Barack Obama’s phone conversation with Egypt’s first freely elected president, Mohammed Morsi. Obama’s remarks were made a few hours after Egypt’s military threatened to intervene and impose a roadmap for the country’s immediate future if the public’s demands weren’t met by Wednesday afternoon.