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Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate Mohamed Morsi attend a rally in Cairo's Tahrir Square on June 21, 2012.
Agence France Presse reports — Egypt is braced for a showdown between the military and the Muslim Brotherhood as the electoral commission delayed announcing the winner of a presidential poll claimed by the Islamists.
A delay in announcing the results from the run-off, which had been due on Thursday, heightened fears of a "soft coup" by the ruling military, which has already disbanded the Islamist-led parliament and granted itself sweeping powers.
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Protesters gather at Tahrir Square, the focal point of the Egyptian uprising, during a protest against presidential candidates Mohamed Mursi and Ahmed Shafiq in Cairo on May 28.
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The revolutionary youth of Egypt return to Tahrir Square to protest the outcome of the Egyptian presidential election in Cairo, Egypt on May 28.
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An Egyptian supporter walks on scattered electoral flyers with pictures of presidential runoff candidate Ahmed Shafiq in front of his ransacked campaign headquarters, in Cairo, Egypt.
The revolutionary youth of Egypt returned to Tahrir Square to protest the outcome of the Egyptian presidential election, in Cairo on May 28.
The runoff vote for Egypt's next president will pit the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate against the last prime minister to serve under Hosni Mubarak, Ahmed Shafiq, according to official results released Monday by the election commission.
A mob set fire late Monday to Shafiq's campaign headquarters, the first sign of unrest after the voting yielded divisive candidates.
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Egyptians wait to cast their votes in front of an apartment block across from a polling center in the El Hamara neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt, on May 24, 2012.
In a wide-open race that will define the nation's future political course, Egyptian voted Thursday on the second day of a landmark presidential election that will produce a successor to longtime authoritarian ruler Hosni Mubarak, The Associated Press reports.
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Voters lined up in Cairo to choose from five leading candidates: a socialist, two Islamists, and two with ties to former President Hosni Mubarak. NBC's Richard Engel reports.
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Egyptian voters line up to cast ballots in Basateen, a southern suburb of Cairo, on May 23, 2012, the first of two days of presidential voting after 16 months of interim rule by the Supreme Council of Armed Forces.
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A policeman hangs a list of voters' names outside a polling station in Cairo.
Ian Johnston, msnbc.com reports — A dying man came "for my children," a college student said he finally felt "like a citizen of this country," and an undecided voter was just happy to take part in "a historic" moment.
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18 days of popular protest culminated in the downfall of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak on Feb. 11, 2011.
Fifteen months after the ouster of Hosni Mubarak during the Arab Spring uprising, BBC News reported lines began growing at many polling stations shortly after they opened at 8 a.m. local time (2 a.m. ET). Read the full story.
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Voters argue with a soldier as they wait to cast ballots in Basateen a southern suburb of Cairo.
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Ahmed Maher, a co-founder of the April 6 Revolutionary Movement, waits in line to vote at a polling center in Maadi, a southern suburb of Cairo. The April 6 Movement was one of the leading youth protest movements during the uprising against former President Honsi Mubarak last year.
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A woman is assisted outside a polling station in Cairo.
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Women cast their votes at a polling station in Cairo.
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A supporter of Mohammed Mursi, the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate in Egypt's presidential election, at the party's last campaign rally for the presidential election in Cairo on May 20, 2012, the final day of campaigning.
Reuters reports — Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood showed off its ability to rally support with choreographed campaign events throughout the nation on Sunday in a final push to clinch victory for its candidate in this week's presidential election.
Egypt's first televised presidential debate thrills viewers
With official campaigning ending on Sunday, fireworks cracked in the night air and flames flared from the front of the stage as Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Mursi arrived to address the audience of several thousand gathered in central Cairo, outside Abdeen palace.
Analysis by NBC News correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin: Chaos is pinned on military's incompetence
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Several hundred imams listen to Mohammed Mursi at a rally in Cairo on May 20, 2012. The May 23-24 presidential election is the first since last year's ouster of longtime authoritarian ruler Hosni Mubarak.
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Supporters of Mohammed Mursi attend the party's last campaign rally in Cairo on May 20, 2012.
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Morocco's Solidarity, Women and Family minister Bassima Hakkaoui, the only woman in the new Islamist-led government, speaks during a debate about underage marriage in parliament in Rabat on April 16, 2012, next to Justice minister Mustafa Ramid.
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Hamida, the sister of Amina Al Filali, holds a poster of her sister during a sit-in protest outside the local court in Larache that had approved the marriage on March 15, 2012.
Morocco's parliament has been debating a controversial law that allows rapists to marry their underage victims after the suicide of a teenage girl last month raised doubts about the effectiveness of reforms to women's rights brought in by King Mohammed VI.
The North African country's Islamist-led government has been urged by human rights groups to amend article 475 of the penal code, which allows a rapist to marry his victim if she is a minor as a way of avoiding prosecution.
Sixteen-year-old Amina El-Filali killed herself by swallowing rat poison on March 10 after being severely beaten during a six-month forced marriage to the man who raped her.
--Reuters contributed to this report
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The dead body of Pope Shenouda III, the spiritual leader of the Middle East's largest Christian minority, sits dressed in formal robes on a wooden throne at the Saint Mark's Coptic Cathedral in Cairo's al-Abbassiya district, for the people to bid farewell to him on March 19, 2012.
Tens of thousands of Egyptian Christians converged on Saint Mark's Coptic Cathedral in Cairo to bid farewell to Pope Shenouda III, who died on March 16 at the age of 88 after a long illness, Agence France-Presse reports.
Based on his wishes, Pope Shenouda will be buried on Tuesday at St. Bishoy monastery in Wadi Natrun in the Nile Delta, where he spent his time in exile after a dispute with late president Anwar Sadat.
His death set in motion the process to elect a new patriarch for the Middle East's largest Christian community.
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Christian Copts push to enter Saint Mark's Coptic Cathedral in Cairo on March 19, 2012 where tens of thousands bade farewell to Pope Shenouda III.
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Coptic nuns mourn the death of Pope Shenouda III in Saint Mark's Coptic Cathedral on March 19, 2012.
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Copts wait in line to enter Saint Mark's Coptic Cathedral on March 19, 2012.
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A Coptic Christian mourns the death of Pope Shenouda III, the spiritual leader of the Middle East's largest Christian minority on March 18.
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An Egyptian Christian Copt mourns the death of Pope Shenouda III, spiritual leader of the Middle East's largest Christian minority, in Saint Mark Cathedral in Cairo.
Christians gathered on Sunday to pay final respects to Pope Shenouda III, who sought to soothe sectarian tension in his four decades atop Egypt's Orthodox Church but saw increasing flare-ups in the majority Muslim nation in the last months of his life.
Friction has worsened since President Hosni Mubarak, who suppressed Islamists, was ousted last year. Since then Shenouda, who died on Saturday aged 88, often called for harmony and regularly met Muslim and other leaders.
Christians, who comprise about a tenth of Egypt's 80 million people, have long complained of discrimination and in the past year stepped up protests, which included calls for new rules that would make it as easy to build a church as a mosque.
Shenouda had served as the 117th Pope of Alexandria since November 1971, leading the Orthodox community who make up most of Egypt's Christians. His funeral will be held on Tuesday, Egyptian state media reported.
-- Reuters contributed to this blog post
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Egyptian Christians gather to mourn the death of Pope Shenouda III, the head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church, outside the Abbasiya Cathedral in Cairo on March 18.
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A Coptic Christian priest holds candles next to a picture of Egyptian Coptic Christian Pope Shenouda III in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City on March 18.
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Photojournalists Guy Martin, left, and Dominic Nahr take cover behind a wall as anti- and pro-government protesters throw stones during a clash near Tahrir Square in Cairo, Feb. 3, 2011.
The 27-year-old was in a group of photographers caught in a mortar attack in Misrata on April 20, 2011. Martin was seriously injured and two of his friends and colleagues, Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros, were killed.
Martin's life was saved by doctors who then prepared him for a perilous evacuation by boat from the besieged city.
Ten months on and still recovering from his injuries, he spoke to NBC News. Watch the video below:
Guy Martin was badly injured while capturing the events of the Arab Spring. As Libya marks one year since the beginning of the country's uprising, Martin reflects on life on the frontline.
Martin had spent several months covering the Arab Spring, documenting the historic events in Egypt and moving on to the brutal civil war in Libya. His pictures documenting the unrest in Cairo's Tahrir Square have just gone on display in London.
As well as the chaotic scenes of violence, Martin prides himself on capturing the quiet, contemplative moments that give some context to the historical moments he has witnessed.
"Despite the physical violence, the risk that we put ourselves in, you have a duty, a responsibility to come out of those situations with pictures, with strong images that communicate what was happening on the ground," he says.
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Rebel fighters moved from house to house, back street by back street to fire on Gadhafi's forces. Here a rebel soldier takes cover in a stairwell as he prepares to fire on Gadhafi loyalists in the adjacent room, just a few meters away. Tripoli Street, Misrata, Libya, April 20, 2011.
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Rebel fighters run across an intersection that was frequently targeted by sniper fire. Misrata, April 18, 2011.
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Rebel fighters takes cover behind trees on the strategically important Tripoli Street in Misrata during a fierce battle for control of the road on the morning of April 20, 2011. Hours later Guy Martin was seriously injured.
The Last Days of Mubarak, an exhibition by Guy Martin and Ivor Prickett, runs at London's Foto8 gallery until March 10.
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A woman runs away after being caught between riot police and stone-throwers during clashes near the Interior Ministry in Cairo, Egypt, on Feb. 6, 2012.
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A protester holds a stone towards security forces during protests near the Interior Ministry in Cairo, as they continue for the fifth consecutive day on Feb. 6, 2012. At least 12 people have been killed as violent protests spread across Egypt's cities amid anger over the deaths of 74 soccer fans in clashes between rival fans, following the match between al-Masry and al-Alhy last week.
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Protesters help a wounded man during clashes with security forces near the Interior Ministry in downtown Cairo, Egypt, on Feb. 3, 2012.
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A youth throws a stone at security forces, not pictured, during clashes near the Interior Ministry on Feb. 3, 2012.
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Riot police throw stones at protesters during clashes near the Interior Ministry on Feb. 3, 2012.
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A protester covers his face with a scarf on Feb. 3, 2012.
Reuters reports:
Protesters laid siege to Egypt's Interior Ministry on Friday, pushing their protest against the military-led government into a second day in a show of anger triggered by the deaths of 74 people in the country's worst soccer disaster.
One person died in Cairo from a shotgun pellet wound and two were killed in the city of Suez as police used live rounds to hold back crowds trying to break into a police station, witnesses and the ambulance authority said.
The demonstrations erupted following the deaths at a soccer stadium in Port Said. Most of those killed were crushed to death in a stampede but protesters hold the military-led authorities responsible. Continue reading.
Follow NBC News correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin on Twitter for updates from Cairo.
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A protester, right, holds gas canisters as another holds an office drawer used as an improvised shield during clashes on Feb. 3, 2012.
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People crowd a train station in Cairo, Egypt waiting for their friends and relatives' arrival from Port Said on Feb. 2, 2012 after the country's worst ever soccer violence. A man, right, carries a poster that reads, "Rest in peace, who is behind this? We are with those who lost their relatives."
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An injured man is carried after arriving from Port Said at a train station in Cairo on Feb. 2, 2012.
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Soldiers transfer a wounded fan of Al-Ahly upon his arrival in Cairo aboard a military plane on Feb. 2, 2012.
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Blood is seen on a seat in the Port Said stadium. Feb. 2, 2012.
The head of Egypt's ruling military council, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, vowed Thursday to track down those behind soccer violence that killed at least 74 people in Port Said, speaking in a rare phone call to an Egyptian TV channel.
"These kind of events can happen anywhere in the world but we will not let those behind this get away," Tantawi said, speaking to the sports television channel owned by Al Ahly, one of the teams playing. He said victims would receive compensation after their cases were examined.
At least 47 people were arrested in connection with the melee, Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim said. Read the full story.
Follow NBC News correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin on Twitter for updates from Cairo and see earlier pictures from Port Said on PhotoBlog.
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A shoe is seen inside the goal net one day after soccer supporters clashed at the Port Said stadium. Feb. 2, 2012.
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Women mourn at a morgue in Cairo on Feb. 2, 2012.
At least 74 people were killed and hundreds more injured when rival soccer fans in Egypt rioted after a match. NBC's Ayman Mohyeldin reports from Cairo.
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