Egypt

After meeting with former president Morsi, the EU’s Catherine Ashton said he is doing well. Turkey’s ambassador to Cairo was summoned by the foreign ministry to be told that recent comments by Turkish officials on the situation in Egypt “exceeded all diplomatic traditions and mutual respect.” At least two conscripts were injured in new attacks by militants in the Sinai. A total of five security personnel have been killed in the past 36 hours in the Sinai. At least two Yemeni and one Algerian jihadists have been recently arrested in the Sinai.

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