Haartez ISIS says behind killing of five Egyptian soldiers in north Sinai ISIS's Egypt affiliate said in a statement on a social media site it carried out an attack in north Sinai on military checkpoints that killed five members of the country's security forces on Saturday. The deaths occurred when several mortar rounds hit two checkpoints, security sources said earlier. Read more: http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.666656 Arkansas Online Clashes in Egypt at protests kill 6 Clashes between Egyptian security forces and Muslim Brotherhood supporters killed at least six people Friday after demonstrations in Cairo at the start of a major religious holiday weekend descended into violence. The fighting broke out when hundreds of Brotherhood supporters staged a march in the Talibiya neighborhood of Giza, which is part of greater Cairo, after morning prayers marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan and the start of the major Muslim holiday, Eid al-Fitr. Read more: http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2015/jul/18/clashes-in-egypt-at-protests-kill-6-201/ Sudan Tribune Sudan hosts seventh meeting of tripartite committee on Ethiopia's dam The 7th meeting of the tripartite technical committee on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) will take place next week in Khartoum with the participation of water resources ministers in Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia to review the proposals submitted by firms that will conduct the technical evaluation on the dam. The three countries had previously formed a committee to select a consultancy firm to assess the impact of GERD on Sudan and Egypt. Four consultancy firms from France, Australia and Netherlands had been short-listed initially and invited to submit their proposals. Read more: http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article55747= World Crunch Egypt Taps Chinese Tourists As Western Visitors Stay Away Many in Egypt's tourism industry see Chinese visitors like Long as the answer to their prayers. Tourism as a whole plummeted after the revolution, but while sun and sea tourism on the Red Sea has shown signs of a modest recovery, cultural tourism has remained in a slump. It was reported last year that revenue from cultural heritage sites had fallen by 95% since the revolution. The only market for cultural tourism that hasn't shrunk is the Chinese market. Far from decreasing, the number of Chinese visitors is expected to double from pre-revolution levels. Read more: http://www.worldcrunch.com/business-finance/egypt-taps-chinese-tourists-as-western-visitors-stay-away/museum-mandarin-language-tourism-asia-2011-revolution/c2s18907/#.VatSy_mqqko
