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No particular subject is dominating the conversation on Egypt in the foreign press this <\/strong>morning:<\/strong> Joe Biden\u2019s \u201cu-turn\u201d over his stance on Egypt\u2019s human rights situation is getting attention in the Guardian<\/a>, while the AP<\/a> reports that at least five people, including three engineers, a laborer and their driver have been kidnapped by Islamic State in North Sinai. Meanwhile, an Egyptian defense analyst tells Breaking Defense<\/a> that Egypt\u2019s recent multi-bn USD arms agreement<\/a> with France may open the door to more similar sales from France and other European countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No particular subject is dominating the conversation on Egypt in the foreign press this morning: Joe Biden\u2019s \u201cu-turn\u201d over his stance on Egypt\u2019s human rights situation is getting attention in the Guardian, while the AP reports that at least five people, including three engineers, a laborer and their driver have been kidnapped by Islamic State […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7233],"tags":[1815,72,297,491,210,498,622],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-562883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egypt-in-the-news","tag-daesh","tag-enterpriseam","tag-europe","tag-france","tag-human-rights","tag-joe-biden","tag-national-security","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"dd1783ae-3b9e-4e7a-a96d-b48053137030","is_powered_by":true,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[562858],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nBiden\u2019s \u201cu-turn\u201d on Egypt human rights - 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