US-Egypt talks still on the agenda in the foreign press

For the nth consecutive morning, the foreign press is focused on this week’s US-Egypt diplomatic talks: Axios and Arab News are both out with pieces reporting on the talks in Washington this week, which saw delegations headed by Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken discuss a range or regional issues, economic cooperation and Egypt’s human rights record.

On that note: Recent amendments to the anti-terrorism law are criticized as restricting civil freedoms in columnist and Middle East scholar Steven A. Cook’s latest thinkpiece in Foreign Policy.