{"id":635478,"date":"2017-12-05T03:53:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T03:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/12\/05\/ahmed-shafik-tops-foreign-headlines-on-egypt-for-third-consecutive-day\/"},"modified":"2017-12-05T03:53:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T03:53:17","slug":"ahmed-shafik-tops-foreign-headlines-on-egypt-for-third-consecutive-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/12\/05\/ahmed-shafik-tops-foreign-headlines-on-egypt-for-third-consecutive-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahmed Shafik tops foreign headlines on Egypt for third consecutive day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Topping coverage of Egypt in<\/strong> the foreign press<\/strong><\/a> this morning is <\/strong>Ahmed Shafik\u2019s interview <\/strong>Dream TV\u2019s Al Ashera Masa\u2019an<\/strong><\/a> to dispel rumors that he had been kidnapped \u2014 and his sudden change of heart on the elections. Reuters also spoke to Shafik yesterday<\/a>, who told their reporters that he was \u201cfine\u201d when they approached him at a Marriott hotel in Cairo, \u201cwhere he was accompanied by men in civilian clothes who refused to let him talk and quickly sent the reporter away.\u201d Bloomberg also has coverage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Blame game in the European press over Regeni\u2019s murder:<\/strong> The Guardian<\/a> picked up on La Repubblica\u2019s scathing critique of what the Italian newspaper claimed was Cambridge professor Maha Abdelrahman\u2019s partial responsibility for the fate grad student Giulio Regeni, whom she advised prior to his murder. The Guardian instead lays the blame squarely at Egypt\u2019s feet.<\/p>\n

Other stories worth noting in brief include:<\/p>\n