Killing Of American In Egypt

The bodies of six more Mexican tourists mistakenly killed in a military strike in Egypt were identified today, raising the number of dead from the Latin American nation to eight.

An Egyptian militant group that pledged allegiance to the Islamic State organisation last month has claimed it was behind the killing of an American oil worker in August.

Demonstrators attacked the U.S. embassies in Yemen and Egypt on Thursday in protest at a film they consider blasphemous to Islam and American warships headed to Libya after the death of the U.S. ambassador there in related violence earlier in the week.

Protesters angered over a film that ridiculed Islam's Prophet Muhammad fired gunshots and burned down the U.S. consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, killing one American, witnesses and the State Department said. In Egypt, protesters scaled the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, tore and replaced the American flag with an Islamic banner...

The bodies of six more Mexican tourists mistakenly killed in a military strike in Egypt were identified today, raising the number of dead from the Latin American nation to eight.

An Egyptian militant group that pledged allegiance to the Islamic State organisation last month has claimed it was behind the killing of an American oil worker in August.

Demonstrators attacked the U.S. embassies in Yemen and Egypt on Thursday in protest at a film they consider blasphemous to Islam and American warships headed to Libya after the death of the U.S. ambassador there in related violence earlier in the week.

Protesters angered over a film that ridiculed Islam's Prophet Muhammad fired gunshots and burned down the U.S. consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, killing one American, witnesses and the State Department said. In Egypt, protesters scaled the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, tore and replaced the American flag with an Islamic banner...