Egyptian court sentences 26 people to death for plotting #Suez_Canal attack
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An Egyptian court sentenced 26 people to death on Thursday for plotting attacks on ships passing through the Suez Canal, judicial source said. The defendants were tried in absentia. Meanwhile, militants blew up a pipeline in Sinai late Tuesday that transports gas to Jordan, security officials said, in the fourth such attack this year in the restive peninsula. Militants planted explosives under the pipeline south of the city of Al-Arish in an area called Lehfen, they said. read more