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The body of an Italian student who vanished in the capital Cairo in Egypt continues to be discovered and reveals signals of torture, officials said. After leaving his house to meet a buddy Giulio Regeni, 28, vanished January. His body was discovered on a road on Cairo’s western outskirts on Wednesday.State prosecutor Ahmed Nagi told reporters that there were indications of torture on the entire body, including cigarette burns and knife wounds. The Italian foreign ministry in Rome “desperately” summoned the Egyptian ambassador to state its concern on Thursday morning.

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Motorcycle-borne masked gunmen opened fire on a tourist bus of Arab-Israeli citizens and a hotel close to the Giza pyramids in Egypt during a rally of Muslim Brotherhood supporters today, but the tourists escaped unhurt.

Authorities were looking for the remaining group and a suspect was detained, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

The passengers on the bus were Arab-Israeli citizens, Alahram reported, citing a statement.

The assault on the tourists came on a day when the Coptic Orthodox Christians in Egypt were observing Christmas in the mostly Muslim nation.

Egypt’s security forces have now been fighting in North Sinai, which has seen many violent assaults by militants because the January 2011 revolution that toppled president Hosni Mubarak.

The assaults targeting police and military rose subsequent to the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi by military following massive demonstrations against his rule in 2013.

More than 600 security staff are reported killed since then.

Some extremists in the Sinai peninsula that was restive have vowed allegiance.

Al-Haram Street in Giza, close to the Pyramids, often sees pro-Morsi rallies and demonstrations.

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A joint force from military and the Egyptian police was chasing militants in the nation’s vast western desert, which borders Libya, when it inadvertently opened fire.

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto condemned the strike on his Twitter account, requiring a complete investigation and describing it as a terrible event.

“Mexico condemns these titles against our citizens and has demanded an exhaustive investigation of what’s occurred,” he tweeted.

Egypt’s tourism ministry spokesman told state news agency MENA the convoy was at an off limits website and was using unlicensed automobiles. The convoy was taking part in an unapproved safari, he said.

Mexican ambassador Jorge Alvarez met with five Mexicans who were in stable condition in hospital, Mexico’s foreign ministry said.

The Mexican ministry said an “undetermined” number of its own state’s nationals were attacked and that it was in the process of identifying the two who had been killed.

Egypt is fighting with an insurgency that increased speed in mid-2013 after mass demonstrations against his rule.

The insurgency, mounted by Islamic State’s Egyptian affiliate, has started to attack Western targets and has killed hundreds of soldiers and police.

Earlier on Sunday Islamic State released a statement carried on Twitter by its supporters saying it had repelled an attack from the Egyptian military in the western desert.

Strikes have taken place in Cairo and other cities, while the insurgency has been largely based in the Sinai Peninsula. In August, an Egyptian military aircraft crashed on a mission against Islamist militants in the western desert near the Libyan border while, killing four people.

Security officials say militants running from Libya to the west of Egypt have already been striving to forge ties with Islamists in the Sinai on the east side of the united states.

Egyptian jets bombed Islamic State targets in Libya in February, a day after the group there released a video showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians, attracting on Cairo straight into factional clash across its edge.

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FILE – In this Thursday, June 4, 2015 file picture, Canadian Al-Jazeera English journalist Mohammed Fahmy, left, and his Egyptian co-worker Baher Mohammed listen in Cairo, Egypt in a court in Tora prison. Egypt’s state news agency is reporting that the verdict is expected shortly in case of three Al-Jazeera English journalists. MENA reported the verdict was to be issued in the long-running trial criticized world-wide by human rights activists and press freedom advocates.

Here will be the most recent developments in the retrial of three in Egypt Al-Jazeera English journalists:
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11 a.m.
The Egyptian judge who sentenced three Al-Jazeera English journalists in prison to 36 months says he did so because they were not filed with the journalist syndicate in the state.
Farid also said the journalists brought gear with no acceptance of security officials into Egypt, in addition to propagate “false news” and used a resort as a broadcasting point without permission.
Australian journalist Peter Greste Canadian national Mohammed Fahmy and Egyptian producer Baher Mohammed were sentenced to 36 months in penitentiary.
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10:50 a.m.
Souag said: “The entire case continues to be heavily politicized and is not conducted in a free and rational way.
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10:32 a.m.
An Egyptian court has sentenced three Al-Jazeera English journalists to 36 months in penitentiary.
The court issued the verdict Saturday in the long-running trial criticized world-wide by human rights activists and press freedom advocates.
The three Al Jazeera journalists — Australian journalist Peter Greste Canadian national Mohammed Fahmy and Egyptian producer Baher Mohammed — were detained while working for the Doha-based network.
Mohammed and Fahmy were released on bail.
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9:45 a.m.
Amal Clooney has arrived within an Egyptian court to represent among the three Al-Jazeera English journalists.
Saturday indicated the first time for her of Clooney to appear to symbolize Canadian national Mohammed Fahmy.
The state news agency MENA in Egypt has reported Saturday a verdict in the case was anticipated to be issued.
The three Al Jazeera journalists — Australian journalist Peter Greste Canadian national Mohammed Fahmy and Egyptian producer Baher Mohammed — were detained while working for the Doha-based network.
Mohammed and Fahmy were released on bail.
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9:20 a.m.
Egypt’s state news agency is reporting that the verdict is expected shortly in case of three Al-Jazeera English journalists.
MENA reported the verdict was to be issued in the long-running trial criticized world-wide by human rights activists and press freedom advocates.
The three Al Jazeera journalists — Australian journalist Peter Greste Canadian national Mohammed Fahmy and Egyptian producer Baher Mohammed — were detained while working for the Doha-based network.
Mohammed and Fahmy were released on bail.

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It’s the first killing of the international hostage in Egypt because the extremists set a department up there.

The killing of the 30- year-old gas surveyor and oil may shake businesses with expatriate employees in Egypt and throw a cloud over Leader Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi’s efforts to enhance worldwide expenditure to regenerate the economy, struggling by decades of uncertainty.

An Islamic State internet in the Sinai in Egypt has printed an image demonstrating what it promises is beheaded Tomislav Salopek, hostage. July 12, 2015. (Reuters)

 

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Just how can a hostage’s demise be confirmed?

France claims it worries the toughest for Tomislav Salopek after an Egyptian jihadist group associated to Islamic State (IS) stated it’d murdered him. But how can regulators attempt to examine statements that are such?

Following a picture displaying a guy that was beheaded was printed on Facebook, France stated it might not verify whether Mr Salopek was useless – featuring the down sides where’s works for authorities trying to confirm reviews from place.

“It Is extremely difficult,” says senior guy in the Basis for Protection of Democracies policy start, Bill Roggio.

“There Is usually no method to get verification that is 100%. I can not think about any occasion where they will have [a hostageis government] recovered a body.

With no actual confirmation of for example genetics screening, identification, visible proof launched from the team is gone on by specialists, he claims.

“They essentially consider that is of speaking with authorities, my knowledge.”

In Mr Salopek’s case, dad and a surveyor -of-two, an all-too common routine is followed by the obvious demise.

Yesterday, jihadist class Sinai Land published a movie of the guy who recognized herself as Mr Salopek kneeling alongside a bad militant keeping a blade within the leave.

The person stated the Egyptian experts had 48-hours to adhere to the needs of the team or death would be faced by him.

On Wednesday, there was an image distributed displaying a body beside a blade pushed in to the dark advertising utilized by IS and also the mud.

It presupposed to be considered an image of the ” hostage “.

Mr Roggio says there “is not any persuasive cause” to think that promises of hostages’ deaths have already been faked.

“They’re currently killing individuals to create a propaganda assertion. Lots of support is directed at the movies,” he provides.