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Egypt and France held a joint naval exercise over the weekend, as the two nations work together to ease tensions between Paris and the Muslim world sparked by the row over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
The joint military exercise in the Red Sea was confirmed by a spokesperson for the Egyptian military, Tamer al-Refai, in a Facebook post on Sunday. French carrier 'Charles de Gaulle' and Egyptian warship 'Seem Al Fateh' were present for the exercises, with helicopter maneuvers, defensive activities and other military actions undertaken by the two sides.
The event was described as a