Egypt calls out West over Russian plane intelligence


Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry criticized Western governments for withholding intelligence about October's Russian plane crash in the Sinai Peninsula, The Associated Press reports.
"European countries did not give us the cooperation we are hoping for," he said in a Saturday news conference.
U.S. and British officials have claimed the plane crash, which killed all 224 people on board in October, likely occurred due to a bomb on board.
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Shoukry said Egypt "expected that the information available would be communicated to us instead of being broadcast."
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