Also worth noting in brief

  • Egypt’s US-backed war on terror has seen a “spate of disappearances and apparent extrajudicial killings,” Jacob Greene and Allison McManus write for The Intercept.
  • Menna Farouk reports on the government’s “Fekretak Sherketak” initiative to support startups, in a piece for Startup MGZN.
  • Oh, and if you are ever in Seoul, avoid a bar called “The Fountain. ” The racist [redacted] reportedly have bouncers that turn people away saying, “No Indians. It is a rule. No Kazakhstan, no Pakistan, no Mongolia, no Saudi Arabia and no Egypt. It is a rule,” according to Korea Exposé.
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