A funeral on Saturday for a victim of clashes in Cairo.Credit...Mohamed El-Shahed/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images CAIRO — As President Mohamed Morsi huddled in his guard’s quarters during his last hours as Egypt’s first elected leader, he received a call from an Arab foreign minister with a final offer to end a standoff with the country’s top generals, senior advisers with the president said.
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