Fallout from the indictment of US Senator Robert Menendez continues to lead the conversation on Egypt in the international press this morning. The New Jersey Democratic senator, who has been accused of covertly aiding Egypt and taking bribes from US businessmen, is resisting mounting calls from within his own party to resign his seat in the senate.

Menendez says his record on Egypt is public and consistent with his role in the senate, and several US-based NGOs are calling on the Biden administration to withhold more military aid to Egypt. (Associated Press | New York Times | Wall Street Journal and many others)

ALSO- The NYT has more on the infrastructure work cutting through the City of the Dead as well as last month’s discovery a new species of prehistoric whale and the National writes that Iraq wants us to extradite former Iraqi officials wanted on corruption charges.

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