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(CBS/AP) CAIRO – Egypt’s new president-elect, Islamist Mohammed Morsi, moved into the office once occupied by ousted leader Hosni Mubarak and started consultations Monday on forming his team and a new government, an aide said. Morsi was declared on Sunday the winner of Egypt’s first free presidential election in its modern history, following a tight race with Mubarak’s last Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq. The campaign had deeply polarized the country, pitting a former regime official and former military man- feared to be a continuation of Mubarak’s autocratic rule but viewed by some as an agent of stability- against an Islamist. Many supported Morsi as a representative of the uprising that toppled the old regime and a chance to challenge the military. But Morsi was equally feared among youth groups behind the uprising, which campaigned for a secular democratic state, and among many of the country’s Christian minority. Almost half of the voters boycotted the runoff vote last weekend. More in After the Arab Spring Muslim Brotherhood’s Morsi named Egypt’s PresidentIsrael jittery after Brotherhood wins in EgyptTimeline: Key events in Egypt’s uprising and transition The victory of Morsi, the first civilian president to take over the country’s top job, is a stunning achievement for the Islamist group that remained for most of its eight decades a shadowy organization targeted by successive regimes. He pledged he will be a “president for...

Updated 7:28 PM ET (CBS/AP) ANKARA, Turkey – Syria said Friday it shot down a Turkish military plane that entered Syrian air space, and 정선출장만남 Turkey vowed to “determinedly take necessary steps” in response. It was the most clear and dramatic escalation in tensions between the two countries, which used to be allies before the Syrian revolt began in March 2011. Turkey has become one of the strongest critics of the Syrian regime’s brutal response to the country’s uprising. Earlier, CBS News correspondent David Martin reported U.S. officials confirmed that Syrian air defenses shot down a Turkish jet off the coast of Syria. The circumstances of the incident remain unclear. The jet — a Vietnam-era F-4 — was supposed to be on a routine training mission over the eastern Mediterranean. Late Friday, Syria’s state-run news agency, SANA, said the military spotted an “unidentified aerial target” that was flying at a low altitude and at a high speed. “The Syrian anti-air defenses counteracted with anti-aircraft artillery, hitting it directly,” SANA said. “The target turned out to be a Turkish military plane that entered Syrian airspace and was dealt with according to laws observed in such cases.” Turkey issued a statement Friday night following a two-hour security meeting led by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, saying Syrian forces downed the plane and that the two Turkish pilots remain missing. It...

(AP) MEXICO CITY – From cash in chili pepper cans to cocaine in cardboard boxes, Mexico City’s international airport has long been considered the capital’s main transport hub for drugs and other contraband that seem to move as smoothly as any cargo and usually with no fuss for passengers. A deadly shootout among federal police on Monday changed that, drawing attention to a darker side of the country’s premier airport generally considered safe and efficient in its handling of more than 27 million passengers and 400,000 tons of cargo a year. Tourists passing Tuesday through the modern Terminal 2, where the shooting occurred, seemed unfazed. But airport workers in the building, with giant walls of white concrete perforated with thousands of decorative holes, said the fatal shooting had shattered their sense of safety. “I couldn’t believe it because there was so much security,” said Maria Eugenia Cruz, 52, who has worked as a custodian for five months but was on her day off when the shooting occurred. “I’m afraid of another shootout.” Two federal police officers suspected of working for drug traffickers opened fire on fellow officers in a crowded food court Monday, killing three policemen as panicked witnesses dove for cover. The slain officers were on an anti-narcotics mission as they sought to catch the suspected criminals in the act of drug trafficking, said a federal police official...