It’s a quiet start to the week in the foreign press: In one of the only Egypt-related stories on the web this morning, the New York Times reports that a Paris appeals court has upheld charges of complicity brought against the former head of the Louvre, Jean-Luc Martinez, for allegedly trafficking Egyptian artifacts. Martinez was charged in May with conspiring to hide the origin of archaeological artifacts that may have been looted from the country during the Arab Spring. Martinez is set to appeal the ruling, according to his lawyer.

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