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Egyptian court rejects plan to transfer Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia

Egyptian lawyer and leftist opposition figure Khaled Ali (C) stands among people outside the State Council's building, Egypt's highest administrative court, in Cairo on June 26, 2016, after the court postponed to July 3 the hearing of the government's appeal against the decision to block the controversial handover of two uninhabited Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia. The deal over the islands of Tiran and Sanafir prompted some of the largest public protests in two years when it was signed in April. The country's State Council ruled on June 21 that the islands, strategically situated at the mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba, must remain under Egyptian sovereignty.(Photo by Fayed El-Geziry/NurPhoto)

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