{"id":19346,"date":"2018-10-21T21:22:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T21:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19346"},"modified":"2018-10-21T21:22:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T21:22:57","slug":"suspected-militants-kill-3-workers-in-egypts-sinai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19346","title":{"rendered":"Suspected militants kill 3 workers in Egypt\u2019s Sinai"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1391351\/middle-east\" readability=\"41\">\n<p>\nCAIRO: Egypt\u2019s parliament voted on Sunday to extend a state of emergency in the country for three months, prolonging the authorities\u2019 ability to use special powers into 2019.<br \/>Egypt first imposed a state of emergency in April 2017 after two church bombings killed at least 45 people, and has extended it at three-month intervals since.<br \/>The renewal starting Oct. 15 was published in the official gazette last week, and required parliamentary approval within seven days.<br \/>It allows security forces to \u201ctake (measures) necessary to confront the dangers and funding of terrorism and safeguard security in all parts of the country,\u201d the gazette said.<br \/>The state of emergency grants the authorities sweeping powers, allowing them to make arrests and crack down on what they call enemies of the state.<br \/>Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly told parliament ahead of Sunday\u2019s vote that national security needed to be balanced with the protection of public freedoms.<br \/>Egypt\u2019s security forces have been fighting a militant insurgency concentrated in North Sinai, and launched a major operation in the remote region in February.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO: Egypt\u2019s parliament voted on Sunday to extend a state of emergency in the country for three months, prolonging the authorities\u2019 ability to use special powers into 2019.Egypt first imposed a state of emergency in April 2017 after two church bombings killed at least 45 people, and has extended it at three-month intervals since.The renewal&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}