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FILE - This Oct. 13, 2015 file photo shows abandoned buildings which dominate downtown in Cairo, Ill. A federal government plan to tear down the crumbling public housing complex in the southern Illinois town of Cairo has sent roughly 200 families searching for new homes and sparked fears that the once-thriving river city could be coming to an end. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman File)

Housing crisis sparks fears of an end for Illinois town

By SARA BURNETT - Associated Press

Pope Francis waves as he arrives to celebrate Mass for Egypt's tiny Catholic community, at the Air Defense Stadium in Cairo, Saturday, April 29, 2017. Pope Francis came to Egypt on Friday for a historic visit to the Arab and Muslim majority nation aimed at presenting a united Christian-Muslim front to repudiate violence committed in God's name. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

The Latest: Pope urges Egypt’s clergy to remain positive

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A billboard welcomes Pope Francis, at St. Mark's Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, April 27, 2017. On Friday, Francis is scheduled to begin a two-day pilgrimage to Egypt aimed at lifting the spirits of Christians in the Middle East, whose numbers have rapidly dwindled in recent decades due to war, displacement and emigration. The visit will include a meeting with Egypt's president and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar as well as a Mass in a stadium on the outskirts of Cairo. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Pope Francis in Egypt, seeks Christian-Muslim rejection of violence

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

This Feb. 20, 2017 photo, shows renovations at Al-Azhar Mosque in the Egyptian capital, Cairo. Egypt is embroiled in a blistering political feud over who speaks for Islam and how to bring reforms to counter Islamic militancy. At the center of it is Al-Azhar, one of the top institutions of clerics in the Muslim world and considered the bastion of moderate Islam. Critics, including Egypt’s pro-government, say it is too tied down in old ways and failing to modernize its teachings, fueling extremism. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Angry debate in Egypt over reforms in Islam against radicals

By HAMZA HENDAWI and LEE KEATH and MARIAM FAM - Associated Press

Blood stains pews inside the St. George Church after a suicide bombing, in the Nile Delta town of Tanta, Egypt, Sunday, April 9, 2017. Bombs exploded at two Coptic churches in the northern Egyptian cities of Tanta and Alexandria as worshippers were celebrating Palm Sunday, killing over 40 people and wounding scores more in assaults claimed by the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Suicide bombers kill 44 at Palm Sunday services in Egypt

By Hamza Hendawi - Associated Press

Policemen from the rapid deployment forces stand alert at Tahrir Square, the focal point of the Egyptian uprising, in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. Egypt on Wednesday marked the sixth anniversary of the popular uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak but failed to bring the country the democracy and freedom the young, pro-democracy youths who fueled it had dreamt of. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Israel issues travel warning on Egypt’s uprising anniversary

By IAN DEITCH - Associated Press

Libyan Foreign Minister, Mohamed Taher Siala, top center, attends a ministerial meeting of countries neighboring Libya which include Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Sudan, Niger and Chad, as well as United Nations envoy, Martin Kobler, third right, in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017. Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, top left, said &quot;Egypt is committed to upholding Libya's sovereignty, supporting its legitimate institutions and rejecting foreign interference in the crisis&quot;. MENA reported. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Libya’s neighbors demand national dialogue to end crisis

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Suspected militants gun down Egyptian army officer

By HAMZA HENDAWI - Associated Press

Egyptian court sentences 2 Al-Jazeera employees to death

By Hamza Hendawi - Associated Press

Illustration on the state of the Middle East in theseven years since Obama's Cairo speech by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

WILLIAM TRIPLETT: A Middle East report card

By William C. Triplett II

This Aug. 21, 2015, file photo shows an EgyptAir Airbus A320 with the registration SU-GCC taking off from Vienna International Airport, Austria. Egypt's Civil Aviation Ministry said Wednesday, June 1, 2016, that a French ship has picked up signals from deep under Mediterranean Sea, presumed to be from black boxes of the EgyptAir Airbus A320 with the registration SU-GCC that crashed last month, killing all 66 passengers and crew on board. (AP Photo/Thomas Ranner, File)

Egypt says signals picked up from doomed plane’s black box

By Maggie Michael and Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

Coptic Christians attend prayers for the departed, remembering the victims of EgyptAir flight 804 at Al-Boutrossiya Church, in the main Coptic Cathedral complex, Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, May 22, 2016. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) ** FILE **

EgyptAir 804 human remains suggest blast, forensic official says

By Sam Magdy - Associated Press

In this Thursday, May 19, 2016 photo released by the U.S. Navy, a P-3 Orion maritime patrol aircraft from Patrol Squadron (VP) Four taxis at Naval Air Station Sigonella, Sicily in preparation to take off in support of the search for Egyptair flight MS804. Search crews found human remains, luggage and passenger seats Friday from the EgyptAir jetliner that fell out of the sky over the Mediterranean Sea, as investigators tried to determine whether the disaster was the work of terrorists. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Tony D. Curtis via AP)

Pentagon won’t rule out terrorism for downed Egypt Air flight, ramps up search efforts

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

EgyptAir Flight 804’s wreckage found near Alexandria, Egyptian army says

By Maggie Michael - Associated Press

This is a April 2014 image of an EgyptAir Airbus A320 with the registration SU-GCC taking off from Istanbul Atat&#252;rk Airport, Turkey. Egyptian aviation officials said on Thursday May 19, 2016 that an EgyptAir flight MS804 with the registration SU-GCC, travelling from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers and crew on board has crashed. The officials say the search is now underway for the debris. (AP Photo/ Ahmet Akin Diler)

EgyptAir Flight 804, carrying 66 from Paris to Cairo, has crashed in the Mediterranean Sea

By Maggie Michael, Elena Becatoros and Angela Charlton - Associated Press

In this Friday, April 15, 2016, file photo, Egyptians shout slogans against Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi during a protest against the decision to hand over control of two strategic Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia in front of the Press Syndicate, in Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Police deployed across Egypt’s capital ahead of protests

By Maggie Michael and Brian Rohan - Associated Press

In this photo released by Lebanon's official government photographer Dalati Nohra, Syrian refugee children shake hands with French President Francois Hollande, center, during his visit to their informal refugee camp, in Dalhamyeh village, in the eastern Bekaa valley, Lebanon, Sunday, April 17, 2016. Hollande arrived in Beirut Saturday at the start of a regional tour that will take him to Egypt and Jordan. During his two-day visit to Lebanon, the French president is scheduled to meet senior officials and visit a group of Syrian refugees in the country's eastern Bekaa Valley. (Dalati Nohra via AP)

Regeni murder casts shadow on French President’s Egypt visit

By HAMZA HENDAWI and MARAM MAZEN - Associated Press

A bus carrying some passengers from the hijacked EgyptAir aircraft as at it landed at Larnaca airport Tuesday, March 29, 2016. An EgyptAir plane was hijacked on Tuesday while flying from the Egyptian Mediterranean coastal city of Alexandria to the capital, Cairo, and later landed in Cyprus where some of the women and children were allowed to get off the aircraft, according to Egyptian and Cypriot officials. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

EgyptAir crisis: Egyptian plane hijacked, taken to Cyprus; hijacker arrested

By Menelaos Hadjicostis and Hamza Hendawi - Associated Press