Highlights 1 In a televised speech, Sisi declared a 3-month countrywide state of emergency. 3 President Trump expressed support for Sisi. Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said a three-month state of emergency would be imposed after two deadly bombings hit Coptic churches on Sunday, killing at least 44 people. I have great confidence that President Al Sisi will handle situation properly," Trump wrote on his official Twitter account. Those attacks followed one of the deadliest on Egypt's Christian minority, when a suicide bomber hit its largest Coptic cathedral, killing at least 25 people.

Source: India Today April 09, 2017 19:35 UTC