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President Trump made clear on Monday that the period of ostracism was over as he hosted Mr. Sisi and pledged unstinting support for the autocratic ruler.

“We agree on so many things,” Mr. Trump said as he sat beside Mr. Sisi in the Oval Office. “I just want to let everybody know in case there was any doubt that we are very much behind President el-Sisi. He’s done a fantastic job in a very difficult situation. We are very much behind Egypt and the people of Egypt. The United States has, believe me, backing, and we have strong backing.”

If Egypt can be a partner in the battle against international terrorism, then in Mr. Trump’s calculation, that is more important to the United States than concerns over its brutal suppression of domestic dissent.

Nothing could have made Mr. Sisi happier. He arrived from Cairo with a list of financial, security and political requests, but effectively he got what he really wanted in the six minutes that news media photographers were permitted in the Oval Office to record the visit that President Barack Obama had denied him. The picture of the general-turned-president in the White House, hosted by an American leader lavishing praise on him, was the seal of approval he had long craved, the validation of a strongman on the world’s most prominent stage.

[The New York Times-  Peter Baker-Declan Walsh]

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Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has emerged as an early Donald Trump favorite among world leaders. | Getty

Egypt’s military ruler Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was never invited to the Obama White House, where he was viewed as a brutal tyrant with little regard for human rights and democracy.
Michael Crowley-      mcrowley@politico.com

I think the writer got the names reversed. Sisi didn't destroy Syria nor provided weapons and killed minorities, children women and young men.   Nor did he push 10 million Syrians out of their homes to become refugees.  Not to forget that the Obama Administration were in support of the terrorists in Egypt who killed.......    Just a thought.               

                                  

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Amid the blue-and-white pompoms, few are so rude as to mention that the University of North Carolina, the Microsoft of college basketball, remains enmeshed in a scandal of spectacular proportions.

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Two police officers have been attacked with a machete outside a police station in Belgium, local authorities have said. The officers, both women, were assaulted in Charleroi, south of Brussels by an attacker shouting in Arabic, police said. 

The attacker was identified as a 33-year-old Algerian, who had resided illegally in Belgium since 2012, and was known to police for criminal offenses.

Lone wolf attacks with machetes, knives and axes against police and civilians have recently become more frequent in Europe, with similar incidents reported in France and Germany.

They are mainly carried by asylum seekers, who had recently arrived in Europe from the Middle East or Western Asia, and may or may not have association with terror groups.

Accepting lawlessness well certainly attract similar.

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A Washington state homeowner was arrested on murder charges after he fatally shot a man who he found taking a shower in his home.

The homeowner shot Nathaniel Joseph Rosa, 31, multiple times after he said he noticed signs of forced entry at his home in Mason County, Washington, the Mason County Sheriff’s office said .

The homeowner went inside and exchanged words with the subject, who was in the shower, at the time, police said. The homeowner left the premises, without calling the police, and returned with a firearm, police said.

"He returned retrieved a firearm, came back over to the residence and fired multiple rounds into the shower ... killing the intruder,"  

Police said the homeowner had enough time to call for help before firing shots. 

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Big drugmaker Mylan was slapped with a class-action racketeering lawsuit that claims the company engaged in an illegal scheme to dramatically increase the list price of its EpiPen anti-allergy device over the past decade.

The suit alleges that the "skyrocketing" list price of EpiPen for consumers was the result of Mylan's payments of rebates to pharmacy benefit managers — including CVS Caremark, Express Scripts and Optum Rx — which handle prescription drug benefit programs for insurance plans.

The suit claims violations of consumer protection laws of all U.S. states, as well as a violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act. If granted class-action status, the suit would cover all consumers. What a web we weave.

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