Hurghada attacker’s recruitment by Daesh tops foreign coverage of Egypt

On an otherwise unremarkable morning: Reports that the Hurghada knife attacker may have ‘joined’ the Daeshbags is leading the conversation on Egypt in the foreign press this morning. According to security officials, two Daesh leaders recruited 29-year-old Abdel Rahman Shaaban via social media and gave him daily lessons for a month, the Associated Press reports. One of the leaders “asked him [to] carry out an attack against tourists in either the resort city of Sharm al-Sheikh or Hurghada, to prove his allegiance to the group.”