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Dec 6, 2012

A protester who was injured during overnight clashes between supporters and opponents of Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi, is detained by the Republican Guard in front of the presidential palace in Cairo, December 6, 2012. Egypt's Republican Guard restored order around the presidential palace on Thursday after fierce overnight clashes killed seven people, but passions ran high in a struggle over the country's future. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) — A protester who was injured during overnight clashes between supporters and opponents of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, is detained by the Republican Guard in front of the presidential palace in Cairo, Dec. 6, 2012. — REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany

A boy stands next to an electoral slogan of the Salafi political party Al-Nour that reads, "Together hand in hand we build the country through religion" outside a polling station in Toukh, El-Kalubia governorate, about 25 km (16 miles) northeast of Cairo January 3, 2012. Egyptians voted in the third round of a parliamentary election on Tuesday that has so far handed Islamists the biggest share of seats in an assembly that will be central in the planned transition from army rule. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

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A member of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporter of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi with a poster of Mursi sits on the ground in front of the courthouse and the Attorney General's office during a demonstration in Cairo July 22, 2013. The family of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi said on Monday it would take legal action against the army, accusing it of abducting the country's first democratically-elected president. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST RELIGION) -

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Egyptian presidential guards stand on a tank behing the presidential palace's gate as protesters gather in front of it in a show of opposition to Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood on February 1, 2013 in Cairo. Egyptian security used water cannon and fired shots into the air as protesters threw petrol bombs and stones into the grounds of the presidential palace, an AFP correspondent said. AFP PHOTO / KHALED DESOUKI (Photo credit should read KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)

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Egyptian military helicopters trailing national flags circled over Tahrir Square during a protest demanding that Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi resign in Cairo July 1, 2013. Five Egyptian military helicopters trailing national flags circled over Cairo on Monday after the armed forces gave politicians 48 hours to resolve a crisis over calls for the resignation of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTX1193S

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