EGYPT Armed plain clothes policeman helps a tourist dismount a camel near Abu Simbel Nile Valley. Police protect tourist sites.

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EGYPT A militant Islamist group has warned tourists to leave Egypt and threatened to attack any who stay in the country after February 20, raising the prospect of a new front in a fast-growing Sinai-based Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis group, which claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed two South Korean tourists and an Egyptian on Sunday, made the statement on an affiliated Twitter account."We recommend tourists to get out safely before the expiry of the deadline," read the tweet, written in English. Library picture shows an armed plain clothes policeman helps a tourist from a camel at a tourist site.

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