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Dozens of disgruntled border policemen forced the closure of Egypt's main crossing point into the Gaza Strip on Friday to protest the abduction of their colleagues by suspected militants, underscoring the lawlessness and crisis of authority in the country two years since the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak.

U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington September 1, 2010.

Egypt forms part of the North Africa region. It is situated north of Sudan lying between Libya and the Gaza Strip.

It was one of the most perplexing events of Egypt's revolution: orchestrated attacks on prisons around the country that broke out more than 20,000 inmates while police were tied down with the massive popular protests that swept autocrat Hosni Mubarak from power.

31, 1996 file photo, Islamic militants await their verdict as Egyptian policemen sit on guard in a court in Cairo.

It was one of the most perplexing events of Egypt's revolution: orchestrated attacks on prisons around the country that broke out more than 20,000 inmates while police were tied down with the massive popular protests that swept autocrat Hosni Mubarak from power.

Brick layers work at a brick factory on the outskirts of Giza governorate in this January 20, 2013 file photo.

A Fennec fox, the smallest species of its kind, explores the White Desert area, a popular destination for tourists pre-2011. CAIRO: The number of tourists visiting Egypt rose in the first four months of 2012, the Cabinet said Tuesday, but analysts say the sector is still suffering from the aftermath of the country's 2011 uprising.

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Seven soldiers kidnapped last week by suspected Islamist militants in the restive Sinai were freed after a six-hour negotiation between local tribesmen and the kidnappers, the Egyptian government announcement Wednesday.

Egyptian riot police take up positions outside the building where former president Hosni Mubarak is being tried in connection with the killing of Arab Spring protesters.

Egyptian army and police forces stepped up roadblocks in north Sinai in a hunt for militant Islamists who kidnapped seven security officers last week, a security source said on Tuesday.

The very same night in February 2011 that former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak fell from power, CBS correspondent Lara Logan was brutally assaulted by a group of at least 200 men while covering the demonstrations in Tahrir Square.

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As Egypt's first democratically elected president nears the completion of his first year in office, there is growing resentment among Egyptians about his tenure.

How do people feel since the fall of dictator Hosni Mubarak and the Jan 25th,2011 revolution? This spoof of Gloria Gaynor's 1978 "I will Survive," by Egyptian Secular leftists about sums it up.

Egypt's liquor stores are under growing pressure to stop selling alcohol, they say, not from the country's Islamist government, but from society itself.

The Egyptian army sent reinforcements into the Sinai Peninsula on Monday after President Mohamed Mursi said there would be no talks with militant Islamists who abducted seven members of the security forces last week.