Reuters Egypt receives first of two French Mistral warships Egypt on Thursday received the first of two French Mistral helicopter carriers and said the second would arrive in September as part of a deal signed last year. France agreed last year to sell two Mistral helicopter carriers to Egypt for 950 million euros ($1 billion) after their sale to Russia was canceled last August. "We now have advanced capabilities in confronting terrorism within our borders and on our shores," Minister of Defence Sedky Sobhi said at a handover ceremony at Saint-Nazaire, Western France. Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-egypt-deals-idUSKCN0YO1D0 Egypt's former top auditor to face trial after alleging mass corruption Egypt's former top auditor Hisham Geneina was referred for criminal prosecution on Thursday on a charge of spreading false news about the cost of the country's corruption, judicial sources said. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi sacked Geneina, who led the country's top anti-corruption watchdog, in March after he publicly concluded that government corruption had cost the country billions of dollars. Geneina became the target of fierce public backlash from senior officials and pro-government media after he gave newspaper interviews alleging that corruption had cost the country 600 billion Egyptian pounds ($68 billion)over a four-year period. Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-corruption-idUSKCN0YO2JA
