Egypt: Cabinet Jobs For Muslim Brotherhood

Egypt's new prime minister Hazem el Beblawi says members of the ousted Muslim Brotherhood will be offered cabinet posts.

The former finance minister was given the post in a transitional government by acting head of state Adli Mansour.

He is to offer posts in the new government to the Freedom and Justice Party - the Muslim Brotherhood's political arm - and to the hardline Islamist Nour Party.

Soldiers in gas masks on patrol in the Cairo suburb of Nasr City

"There is no objection at all to including members of those two parties in the government," the state news agency quoted a presidential spokesman as saying.

Mr Mansour has also made former UN nuclear agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei the deputy to the president, responsible for foreign affairs.

The Nour Party has said it does not object to 76-year-old Mr el Beblawi's nomination, but it was studying the likely appointment of Mr ElBaradei, the party's leader said in a statement.

The news comes as Egypt is set to hold parliamentary elections by early 2014 as part of a swift timetable for social change, a move welcomed by the US.

Adli Mansour's decree comes after clashes between protesters and the army

According to an earlier decree issued by Mr Mansour, Egyptians will have five months to amend the constitution - suspended after Mohamed Morsi was removed from power in a military coup - before heading to the polls three months later.

Mr Mansour, a top judge who was picked by the military to steer the country through another period of transition, has promised a quick return to civilian rule.

However, Zaid al Ali, a constitutional lawyer, said the 33-article decree was "vague" enough to allow Mr Mansour to draw out the parliamentary vote.

Brotherhood leader Asem Abdel Maged delivers a speech to supporters

"The way it was worded suggests they plan to have the entire election within that timeframe," he said, but warned the interim president may only require candidates to start registering within the schedule set.

The decree was issued after 51 people were killed close to the gates of the Republican Guard officers' club in Cairo.

Many of those who died were supporters of Mr Morsi, who they believe is being held inside the building. Authorities have so far arrested 650 mostly pro-Morsi protesters after the killings.

A man holds a bloodstained shirt following earlier clashes with the army

Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, which has led demonstrations against last week's military overthrow of the Islamist leader, have called for an "uprising" in response to the "massacre".

"Each province is organising funerals and rallies, and each province will have a central sit-in," Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad said.

Video footage obtained by Sky News showed soldiers firing tear gas and volleys of automatic rifle fire during an apparent pre-planned operation to clear the streets of protesters.

Supporters of Mohamed Morsi say their supporters were 'massacred'

UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon has condemned the latest wave of bloodshed and called for an independent inquiry.

He urged Egyptians "to be mindful of the precarious path the country is now on and to do everything possible to avoid further escalation", his spokesman Martin Nesirky said.

Meanwhile, Middle East envoy Tony Blair has told Sky News there are "no easy solutions" to the crisis. Speaking to Sky's Dermot Murgnahan, Britain's former Prime Minister said Egypt needed to change its way of thinking for democracy to work.

"This wasn't a situation of people electing a Muslim Brotherhood government and then immediately the army stepping in," he said. "The army and people gave the government a chance to work but it lost support as was literally not governing.

"One the one hand you want to condemn the intervention of the military, on the other hand you think 'what else realistically could happen?' and how do we get the country back to stability?

"There is a big argument going on right across the Middle East right now of 'what is the proper place of religion in politics?' and how do you create a genuine democracy in these countries because democracy is not just a way of voting, it's a way of thinking."

Egypt's rich neighbours have pledged almost $8bn in aid since Mr Morsi was ousted.

Saudi Arabia said it would give $5bn in grants and loans, after the United Arab Emirates announced $3bn in aid.

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