Los Angeles Times Egypt doctors rally against police assaults In Egypt's biggest public protest in more than two years, thousands of doctors gathered Friday to demand justice for two physicians allegedly assaulted by police. Their union, known as the Egyptian Medical Syndicate, announced that if the accused police officers are not brought to justice before Feb. 26, doctors will start providing free medical care for citizens at public hospitals across the country. Outside the union headquarters near downtown Cairo, doctors carried banners reading "living, freedom and dignity" and chanted "We won't surrender! We won't bail out!" Read more: http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-egypt-doctors-20160213-story.html CBSNEWS Italy mourns, premier demands truth from Egypt in slaying As Italians mourned, Italy's premier insisted Friday that his country's friendship with Egypt can only exist "if the truth emerges" about the death of an Italian doctoral student who was doing research in Cairo. Premier Matteo Renzi's remarks on Italian state radio came on the day of slain student Giulio Regeni's funeral and kept up the pressure on Egypt to find and bring to justice whoever tortured and killed the young man. Regeni had been living in Cairo to research Egyptian labor movements for his doctorate from Cambridge University. His body was found Feb. 3, nine days after he disappeared. In his hometown of Fiumicello in northeastern Italy, friends streamed in from afar for a private funeral service Friday in a gym and locals offered spare rooms to mourners. Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/italy-mourns-premier-matteo-renzi-demands-truth-from-egypt-in-slaying-of-italian-student-giulio/
