US ducks decision on Egypt ''military coup''

WASHINGTON: Washington has decided to avoid the tricky question of whether the toppling of Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi was a coup, which would have forced a freeze of $US1.5 billion ($A1.63 billion) in aid."The law does not require us to make a formal determination ... as to whether a coup took place, and it is not in our national interest to make such a determination," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said on Friday.After his ouster, President Barack Obama ordered his administration

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