Human rights and Howard Carter

Two of the foreign press’ favorite Egypt topics are making headlines this morning — all that’s missing to hit the trifeca is a piece on FGM. We start with human rights in the New York Times, which has a story on the release of hundreds of political prisoners and detainees in Egypt since April. Meanwhile, new evidence that British archeologist Howard Carter — known as the man who discovered Tutankhamun’s tomb — stole treasures is getting some ink in the Guardian.