Syria, Lebanon (and Beyond) Live Coverage: Will a Beirut Bomb Widen the War?
Saturday, October 20, 2012 at 11:01 | Scott Lucas in EA Live, EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran 
Activists and crew on the Estelle, the Gaza-bound ship of the Freedom Flotilla, which was boarded this morning by Israeli forces
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1840 GMT: Egypt. France 24 TV says its correspondent in Cairo, Sonia Dridi, was "savagely attacked" near Tahrir Square on Friday night, shortly after a live news report.
The channel said Dridi was rescued by a colleague and other witnesses. The reporter and crew were safe "but extremely shocked".
France 24 said it would file a suit against unspecified assailants.
1720 GMT: Syria. US officials have put out the message, via The Washington Post, that they are stepping up intelligence co-operation and military consultations with Turkey over the Syrian conflict.
In particular, the officials confirmed that Washington was the source of intelligence for Ankara's grounding of a Syrian passenger jet, travelling from Moscow to Damascus, earlier this month. Turkish officials claimed the aircraft was carrying radar and electrical parts for Syria’s Russian-made anti-aircraft systems.