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Egypt executed Wednesday nine men suspected of belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood who had been convicted of involvement in the 2015 assassination of the country’s top prosecutor, security officials said.

On January 2, “politazia.ru” reported on its Internet resource: “A political prisoner - Rakhmonkhodzhayev Zikrullokhon Fayzullokhodzhayevich, sentenced in 2013 to 7 years of strict regime for participating in the activities of Hizb-ut-Tahrir, while being in prison in the penal colony № 17 in Sheksna village of the Vologda region, was again found guilty under Art. 205.5 Part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Participation in the activities…

President Erdoğan reminded in a TV show he joined that the debt owed to the IMF when they came into office was 23,5 billion dollars, and that the foreign exchange reserve of the Central Bank was 27,5 billion dollars, upon the presenter asked him to evaluate the state of the economy.