CAIRO, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- An Egyptian court ruled Sunday the country's government does not have the power to return two islands to Saudi Arabia, potentially scuttling a long-discussed deal and making worse the relationship between the two countries.
Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court issued the decision, halting a plan to return the islands of Tiran and Sanafir, which Egypt took control of in the 1950s amid concern between the two countries that Israel would seize them.