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<\/a> Human rights is leading the international press again:<\/strong> Authorities released on Sunday three public figures who had spent over a year in pre-trial detention, the Associated Press<\/a> reports. YouTuber Shadi Srour<\/a>, journalist Shaima Sami and activist Ziyad Aboel-Fadel were all freed in the latest spate of releases. The releases came a day before a Cairo court announced<\/a> it had dropped charges against four NGOs in the longstanding foreign funding of civil society case. Both moves should help ease a perennial pain point for Egypt in its relationship with some of its major Western partners.<\/p>\n

From the Dept of \u201cThere Goes Your Diet\u201d: <\/strong>Krispy Kreme\u2019s recent expansion into Egypt<\/a> is getting ink from Bloomberg<\/a>, which notes \u201cthe doughnut-maker expects to open up to 10 stores in Egypt in the next 12 months\u201d as part of its global expansion drive.<\/p>\n

Egyptian tennis star Mayar Sherif exited the US Open <\/strong>with her first-round loss to Anhelina Kalinina. You can catch highlights of the match on the US Open\u2019s Youtube channel (watch, runtime: 3:02<\/a>). Sherif became the first Egyptian woman to qualify for the event\u2019s main draw after a qualifying match against American Clervie Ngounoue, King Fut<\/a> notes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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