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36 dead, toll rising in jihadist attack on Red Sea resorts At least 36 have died and over 114 are reported injured in a series of attacks on resorts popular with Israelis in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. All of the reported injuries so far resulted from a large blast at the Hilton Hotel in the Taba resort, only a few hundred metres across the Israel-Egypt border on the Red Sea. The Taba attack was followed closely by additional explosions -- about which little has yet been reported -- at the nearby towns of Ras Hasatan and Nuweiba. Egyptian authorities at first...

A CAR bomb that ripped through a hotel on the Red Sea coast of Egypt's Sinai desert early today was one of three explosions targeting tourists, killing at least 35 people dead and wounding scores more. The deadly blast at the Hilton hotel in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Taba on the border with Israel was claimed by the previously unknown "World Islamist Group", in a telephone call to AFP in Jerusalem. "Jamaa Al-Islamiya Al-Alamiya (World Islamist Group) claims responsibility for the explosion at the Taba hotel, carried out in revenge for the Palestinian and Arab martyrs dying in Palestine...