The French foreign minister’s trip to Cairo yesterday leads coverage of Egypt in the international press this morning: France24 | AFP | Reuters | Xinhua | Gulf News. We have more in this morning’s Diplomacy + Foreign Trade, below. The visit is being positioned by the press as a move by France to “calm tensions” with the “Arab world” over the Charlie Hebdo cartoons.

Elsewhere, Xinhuaprofiles an Egyptian woman who climbs palm trees to collect dates — a traditionally male-dominated job — as a way to make an income and feed her family.

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