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              Putin, Sissi Agree on New Airline Security Measures

   by VOA News

   Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel
   Fattah el-Sissi agreed Wednesday on new, but undisclosed airline
   security measures as the first step toward resumption of flights
   between the two countries.

   The two leaders spoke by phone a day after Moscow concluded a bomb
   brought down a Russian jetliner in the Sinai Peninsula last month,
   shortly after it took off from Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh resort bound for
   St. Petersburg, killing all 224 people aboard.

   Egypt says Sissi told Putin he understood the Russian people's pain
   over the disaster, but made no mention of a bombing.  The Russian
   newspaper Kommersant said authorities concluded the bomb was in the
   rear of the aircraft's main cabin, near the tail section, not in the
   cargo hold.

   Egypt, worried about the air disaster's effect on its key tourism
   industry, has declined to say a bomb caused the crash and says an
   international investigation is still underway.

   The so-called Islamic State militant group has claimed responsibility
   for downing the aircraft, as it has for last week's deadly terrorist
   attacks in Paris.

   Within hours after Moscow concluded that terrorists took down the
   jetliner, Putin launched massive strikes Tuesday on Raqqa, the Islamic
   State's self-proclaimed capital in northern Syria.
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