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![Polling station officials count ballots in the Egyptian capital Cairo on January 15, 2014 at the end of the second day of voting in a referendum on a new constitution. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/000_Nic6285669.jpg?itok=GUUIqDnB "Polling station officials count ballots in the Egyptian capital Cairo on January 15, 2014 at the end of the second day of voting in a referendum on a new constitution. [AFP]")
![A member of the Egyptian security forces stands in front of the damaged police building following a powerful car bomb explosion in the Egyptian city of Mansura earlier this week. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Egypt/000_Nic6278464.jpg?itok=x_iH_SrP "A member of the Egyptian security forces stands in front of the damaged police building following a powerful car bomb explosion in the Egyptian city of Mansura earlier this week. [AFP]")
![A billboard reading "participating in the constitution means YES for the 30th of June and the 25th of January" is seen on Cairo’s ring road on December 16, 2013. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Egypt/000_Nic6275874.jpg?itok=KbRgpbRr "A billboard reading \"participating in the constitution means YES for the 30th of June and the 25th of January\" is seen on Cairo’s ring road on December 16, 2013. [AFP]")
![A Palestinian man sits on the roof of his house in a flooded area of Gaza city on December 15, 2013 following heavy rain. A fierce winter storm shut down much of the Middle East the past days. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/PALESTINE/000_Nic6275356.jpg?itok=NGXYVRsy "A Palestinian man sits on the roof of his house in a flooded area of Gaza city on December 15, 2013 following heavy rain. A fierce winter storm shut down much of the Middle East the past days. [AFP]")
![Egyptian students who support the Muslim Brotherhood (background) clash with riot policemen outside the University of Cairo campus in the capital on December 11, 2013. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/iran/455128605_1.jpg?itok=gp13Peir "Egyptian students who support the Muslim Brotherhood (background) clash with riot policemen outside the University of Cairo campus in the capital on December 11, 2013. [AFP]")
![Supporters of 28-year-old blogger Khaled Said who died following police questioning before the revolution in 2010, during a demonstration outside the criminal court where the second retrial session is underway on December 2, 2013. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/iran/453014087.jpg?itok=0mtwCROq "Supporters of 28-year-old blogger Khaled Said who died following police questioning before the revolution in 2010, during a demonstration outside the criminal court where the second retrial session is underway on December 2, 2013. [AFP]")
![Morsi is alleged to have encouraged the murder of protesters demonstrating outside Cairo's presidential palace last December. [guim]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Egypt/Mohamed-Morsi-arrives-in--015.jpg?itok=Fq9cZ4Eo "Morsi is alleged to have encouraged the murder of protesters demonstrating outside Cairo's presidential palace last December. [guim]")
