Egyptian security forces have arrested the supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood in the northern city of Marsa Matrouh following the military overthrow of Islamist President Mohammed Mursi.
Police tracked Mohamed Badie to the city, which is near the Libyan border but did not believe he was trying to flee the country.
The prosecutor's office ordered his arrest earlier, along with his influential deputy Khairat el-Shater.
Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad said he could not confirm whether Mr Badie had been arrested.
An Egyptian judge has been sworn in as the nation's interim president, after the military ousted Mr Mursi.
Adli Mansour has become head of state, under an army transition plan.
Mr Mursi, Egypt's first freely elected president, is under house arrest after what he says was a military coup.
Egypt's main alliance of liberal and leftist parties said it opposes excluding any Islamist parties from political life.
The announcement came after the military-backed authorities arrested Muslim Brotherhood leaders and shut down Islamist-run media.
"We confirm our strong belief in the right of all political groups to express their opinions freely, and to form their own political parties," the National Salvation Front said.
"We totally reject excluding any party, particularly political Islamic groups," it added.
"What Egypt is witnessing now is not a military coup by any standards.
"It was a necessary decision that the Armed Forces' leadership took to protect democracy, maintain the country's unity and integrity, restore stability," it added.
Mr Mansour, who had held the title of Supreme Justice of Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court, was sworn in as head of state at the Constitutional Court in a ceremony broadcast live on state television.
According to the military decree, Mr Mansour will serve as Egypt's interim leader until a new president is elected. A date for that vote has yet to be set.
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The military moved to oust Mr Mursi after millions of Egyptians took to the streets this week to demand his resignation.
He is under house arrest at an undisclosed location.
The United Nations, the United States and other world powers did not condemn Mr Mursi's removal as a military coup. To do so might trigger sanctions.
Army intervention was backed by millions of Egyptians, including liberal leaders and religious figures who expect new elections under a revised set of rules.
But as vast crowds partied on Cairo's Tahrir Square, hailing a "second revolution" to match the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak in 2011, Islamists feared a clampdown that revived memories of their sufferings under the old, military-backed regime.
At least 14 people were killed and hundreds wounded in street clashes.
Television stations sympathetic to Mr Mursi were taken off air.
Mr Mursi himself was transported to the Defence Ministry, Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad said.
His aides were being held at the Republican Guard barracks, where he spent his final day in office defying calls for him to resign but unable to forestall an ultimatum from the generals.
The army put combat troops and tanks on the streets around a gathering of hundreds of Mr Mursi's supporters in Cairo.
The military said it would keep order. Mr Mursi called for there to be no violence.
Millions took to the streets on Sunday to demand that Mr Mursi resign.
They accused his party of hijacking the revolution, entrenching its power and - critically for many - failing to revive the economy.
That gave armed forces chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who already had his own reservations about the state of the nation under Mr Mursi, a justification to invoke the "will of the people" and demand the president share power or step aside.
The US and other Western allies had also pressed Mr Mursi hard to open his administration to a broader mix of ideas.
Mr Mursi spoke at length on television about his electoral legitimacy.
He called his liberal opponents bad losers, in league with those secretly still loyal to Mr Mubarak. He pledged his life.
Tánaiste deeply concerned by 'takeover'
Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore said the events over the past 24 hours were a matter of deep concern.
"No one who truly holds to democratic values can view with equanimity what was, to all intents and purposes, a military takeover.
"The Irish Ambassador and our Embassy in Cairo are keeping me closely informed of developing events.
"They are also keeping in close contact with all Irish citizens in Egypt who have registered with the Embassy.
"So far, we have had no reports of any Irish citizens being caught up in the protests. Any Irish citizens in Egypt who have not yet registered their contacts details with the Embassy should do so."
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged a swift return to civilian rule, restraint and respect for civil rights.
He did not, however, condemn the military action.
He said: "Many Egyptians in their protests have voiced deep frustrations and legitimate concerns ... At the same time, military interference in the affairs of any state is of concern."
US President Barack Obama, whose administration provides €1bn a year to the Egyptian military, expressed concern about Mr Mursi's removal and called for a swift return to a democratically elected civilian government.
But he also stopped short of condemning a military move that could block US aid.
"During this uncertain period, we expect the military to ensure that the rights of all Egyptian men and women are protected, including the right to peaceful assembly, due process, and free and fair trials in civilian courts," he said.
Mr Obama urged the new authorities to avoid arbitrary arrests and said US agencies would review whether the military action would trigger sanctions on aid.
A senator involved in aid decisions said the United State would cut off its financial support if the intervention was deemed a military coup.
Much may depend on a strict definition of "coup".
Concerns over human rights have clouded US relations with Egypt, but did not stop aid flowing to Mubarak, or to Mr Mursi.
The European Union, the biggest civilian aid donor to its near neighbour, also called for a rapid return to the democratic process.
Foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said in a statement that should mean "free and fair presidential and parliamentary elections and the approval of a constitution".
She stressed the need for inclusive politics but did not mention the constitution and elections already held in the past two years, the results of which the armed forces have now cast aside.
General Sisi said: "Those in the meeting have agreed on a road map for the future that includes initial steps to achieve the building of a strong Egyptian society that is cohesive and does not exclude anyone and ends the state of tension and division."
Reflecting the hopes of the "revolutionary youth" who led the charge against Mubarak, only to see the electoral machine of the Brotherhood dominate the new democracy, the young man who proved Mr Mursi's extraordinary nemesis said the new transitional period must not repeat the mistakes of the recent past.
"We want to build Egypt with everyone and for everyone," said Mahmoud Badr, a 28-year-old journalist who first had the idea two months ago for a petition calling on Mr Mursi to resign.
By last weekend, the "Tamarud - Rebel!" movement was claiming 22 million backers, many of whom were on the streets on Sunday.
Mr Mursi's overthrow may have repercussions in Tunisia, whose uprising prompted Egyptians to take on Mubarak, the last in a 60-year line of military-backed rulers.
Tunisia now has its own "Tamarud" movement, seeking to end Islamist government.
On Tahrir Square, the cradle of Egypt's 25 January revolution in 2011, huge crowds in the hundreds of thousands set off fireworks and partied, chanting: "The people and the army are one hand!"
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