It’s a mixed bag of nuts in the pages of the foreign press this morning: AFP and Arab News picked up Egypt’s latest counter-terrorism operations in Sinai that resulted in the killing of over 70 terrorists.

Human rights is again a hot button topic: The Washington Post reported on the 15-year prison sentence handed down in absentia to human rights activist Bahey Eddin Hassan for social media posts critical of the government, under the country’s new cybercrimes law and before a counterterrorism court. It noted the condemnations by media and internet freedom campaigners.

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