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Tonight's features come (as does the banner above) from Egypt:
From Reuters:
Russia suspends Egypt flights, U.S. boosts security as intelligence points to bombBy Andrew Osborn and Mark Hosenball
Moscow suspended passenger flights to Egypt, and the United States imposed new air travel security requirements in the wake of the crash of a Russian jet in Egypt, as Western officials pointed on Friday to the conclusion it was brought down by a bomb.
From The Telegraph's Anthony Sattin: Sinai crash shatters Egypt's tourism dreamThis week's reopening of Cairo's most chic hotel - intended to herald a new dawn for tourism in Egypt - has been overshadowed by events in Sharm el-Sheikh
The Sinai plane crash last Saturday shows that the line between hope and despair has become impossibly thin in Egypt.
First, then, the moment of hope. Tahrir Square has been a byword for trouble since 2011 when it was the main stage of Egypt’s revolutions. But I have a postcard from the 1960s that shows a scene not of chanting crowds and charging police, but of lawns, palms and a fountain. Also in this image of serenity, facing the river, is the Nile Hilton Hotel, which was opened in February 1959.
From The New York Daily News: Tourists paid $30 to skip security checks at airport where doomed Russian passenger jet departed Egyptby Laurie Hanna, Nancy Dillon
Two British tourists say they paid just $30 to bypass a security checkpoint and waltz onto a plane at the same Egyptian airport now under scrutiny in the crash of a Russian jetliner.
Dale Parkyn and his wife, Joanne, told Sky News they were leaving the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh earlier this year when someone wearing a ballistics vest said they could skip a long baggage screening line for a small bribe.
Then there is this (from James Hohmann at The Washington Post): Ben Carson’s pyramid comments dominate social media chatter, even in EgyptBen Carson is getting a good taste of the scrutiny that comes with being the Republican presidential frontrunner.
Many of the stories that the retired neurosurgeon has told about his upbringing are now being called into question. A story about hitting a classmate in the head and Carson’s narrative about trying to stab an acquaintance — which has changed several times in his own telling — could not be corroborated by any of the nine friends and witnesses who were contacted by CNN reporters. He’s also getting slammed for comments about falling asleep at the wheel numerous times while driving over the years. His theory that the Egyptian pyramids were built to store grain was mocked yesterday by Rand Paul, who quipped that maybe even aliens built the pyramids.
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