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Egypt celebrates Qatar’s National Day amid improving ties

Egypt’s iconic Cairo Tower lit up with Qatar’s flag colors, in the latest sign of warming relations between the two countries after years of political rift.
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Egypt’s iconic Cairo Tower lit up in maroon Dec. 18 to celebrate Qatar’s National Day, in the latest sign of improving relations between the two countries after years of political rift.

A video published by the Qatari Embassy in Cairo showed the famed Nile-side landmark lit up with the Gulf state’s flag colors with an illumination reading in Arabic “The National Day of the State of Qatar.”

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