Libya hands death sentences to suspected IS militants who killed Egyptian Copts in 2015

Leading the conversation on Egypt in the foreign press this morning: A Libyan court sentenced 23 people suspected of having ties to Islamic State to death and 14 to life in prison for their involvement in the 2015 attacks that killed dozens, including a number of Egyptians Coptic Christians, the Libyan Attorney General Office said. Reutersand the Associated Press had the story.

MEANWHILE- CNN covered our latest archeological discovery of human and animal mummification workshops in Saqqara, while the National followed the story of Egyptian Youssef Mikhaeil, who struggles with the rare Fabry disease and is being held by UK authorities ahead of his deportation.