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Topping coverage of Egypt in the foreign press:<\/strong> Wire pickups of the arrest of a second suspect allegedly involved in the 2014 Fairmont Hotel [redacted] case and the detention of three others being held in Lebanon are leading the conversation this morning (Reuters<\/a> | AP<\/a>).<\/p>\n

It turns out that pre-Nasr Egypt seriously backed the idea of a dam on the <\/strong>Blue Nile.<\/strong> The Egyptian government proposed in 1946 a joint project with Ethiopia to construct a dam near the source of the Blue Nile, only for Addis Ababa to roundly reject the idea. That\u2019s according to documents declassified by the British government seen by BBC Arabic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The \u201cKings of the Sun\u201d exhibition of ancient Egyptian artifacts is getting <\/strong>coverage in <\/strong>Al Monitor<\/a><\/strong> ahead of its opening in Prague today<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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