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It\u2019s a mixed bag in the foreign press this morning:<\/strong> The Finance Ministry\u2019s controversial plans to require online content creators to pay income tax and VAT has been picked up by AFP<\/a>, while India\u2019s the Economic Times<\/a> gleefully points out that a Chinese company missed out on Egypt\u2019s high-speed rail contract, which was instead awarded to Siemens<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the latest in the Regeni case<\/strong>, the Guardian<\/a> reports that a delegation of Italian parliamentarians are travelling to the UK this week for talks with Cambridge University, where Regeni enrolled as a PhD student. He was abducted and killed in Egypt in 2014. This comes only a few weeks<\/a> before four members of Egypt\u2019s security services go on trial in absentia in Italy after a judge decided in May that there is \u201csufficient evidence\u201d to accuse them of the murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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