{"id":616933,"date":"2024-03-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2024\/03\/13\/the-trial-of-bob-menendez-is-once-again-putting-egypt-in-the-intl-news-cycle\/"},"modified":"2024-03-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T00:00:00","slug":"the-trial-of-bob-menendez-is-once-again-putting-egypt-in-the-intl-news-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2024\/03\/13\/the-trial-of-bob-menendez-is-once-again-putting-egypt-in-the-intl-news-cycle\/","title":{"rendered":"The trial of Bob Menendez is once again putting Egypt in the int\u2019l news cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>\u201cOnce again, not guilty your honor,\u201d <\/strong>US Senator Bob Menendez said on Monday as he pleaded not guilty to new charges of obstruction of justice. The allegations against the embattled New Jersey senator have brought renewed attention from the international press to federal charges last year <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/848e4b58-9fbe-4362-b877-bbbd9727ef34\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">alleging<\/a> that \u201cMenendez helped one of the men get a lucrative meat-certification [agreement] with Egypt\u201d while chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/11\/nyregion\/senator-menendez-arraigned-bribery-obstruction.html?searchResultPosition=1\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/menendez-federal-bribery-indictment-2f4a8945ea113debe54b062dc59d2c88\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Associated Press<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/us-senator-menendez-be-arraigned-obstruction-justice-charges-2024-03-11\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>AND-<\/strong><strong>Egyptian monks killed in South Africa: <\/strong>Three Egyptian Coptic monks were stabbed and killed in a \u201ccriminal assault\u201d inside a South African Coptic monastery, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/three-coptic-egyptian-monks-killed-south-africa-coptic-orthodox-church-says-2024-03-12\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> wrote yesterday, citing a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/copticorthodox.church\/en\/2024\/03\/12\/statement-by-the-coptic-orthodox-church-regarding-the-martyrdom-of-the-three-monks-in-the-monastery-of-saint-mark-the-apostle-and-saint-samuel-the-confessor-johannesburg-south-africa\/?fbclid=IwAR0GiVZeeYXW_xbezZEHcrG8X5KbhJcXjImcDE5wjXd1kZzr14GiPHWQSS0\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> from the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt. The motive is unknown at this stage, a police spokesperson said, but an internal investigation has been launched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOnce again, not guilty your honor,\u201d US Senator Bob Menendez said on Monday as he pleaded not guilty to new charges of obstruction of justice. 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