US, Egypt try to salvage relations
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi meets US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in New York on Monday. Timothy A. Clary / Agence France-Presse |
The United States and Egypt sought on Monday to repair ties strained severely by 18 months of rapid change in the Middle East, culminating in the last two weeks with Egyptian demonstrators overrunning the US embassy in Cairo and US President Barack Obama candidly remarking that the two countries were now neither enemies nor allies.
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