News 24 Egypt court orders release of brother of al-Qaeda leader An Egyptian lawyer says a court in Cairo has ordered the release of the brother of al-Qaeda's leader after he spent over two years in prison without trial over accusations he led a terrorist group. Khaled al-Masri told The Associated Press Tuesday that Mohammed Al-Zawahri, the brother of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri, will be placed under house arrest. Al-Zawahri was the leader of a jihadi Salafi group and was a close ally of Morsi. Read more: http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/egypt-court-orders-release-of-brother-of-al-qaeda-leader-20160223 Sputnik Egypt Tourism Minister Says Assured Air Traffic With Russia to Resume Soon Egypt's Tourism Minister Hisham Zazou said Tuesday he had been assured that air traffic with Russia would resume shortly. "There are reassuring reports. No exact date for the resumption of flights was mentioned, but I am certain that they [Russian charter flights] will be back before long," Zazou told journalists at the Egyptian Tourism Ministry's conference in Cairo. Russia suspended flights to and from Egypt last fall after a Russian airliner crashed in the Sinai desert on October 31 while flying from the resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg. Read more: http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160223/1035234634/egypt-tourist-russia-traffic.html#ixzz4140dsPYu
