Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, (C), listens to French First Lady Bernadette Chirac while French President Jacques Chirac looks on during their dinner at the Elysee Palace in Paris in this May 18, 1998 file photo. Mubarak, who ruled Egypt for three decades until overthrown in 2011, was on life support in hospital, military officials said on June 19, 2012, but they denied a report he was clinically dead. Earlier the state news agency, amid high tension over the election of a new president, quoted medical sources as saying the former head of state, aged 84, was "clinically dead". [Photo/Agencies]