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Supporters of Egypt's former President Hosni Mubarak shout slogans against members of the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi near a poster of Egypt's armed forces chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, outside a police academy before Mubarak's trial in Cairo July 6, 2013. The slow-motion retrial of former Egyptian autocrat Hosni Mubarak dragged on at snail's pace on Saturday, impervious to the latest upheaval in the country he ruled for 30 years - the military overthro

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