(New York Times) David D. Kirkpatrick and Mayy El Sheikh - The politically charged trial in Cairo of employees of four American-backed nonprofit groups was adjourned Sunday until April 26, less than two hours after it began. U.S. diplomats had made a high-level push to settle the case before the trial opened. American officials said later on Sunday that they still held out hope for a swift resolution of the case. "State media has pushed this whole case as Egyptian sovereignty against 'U.S. interference,'" said Nancy Okail, 34, an Egyptian citizen and a defendant in the case as the Egypt director at Freedom House, a federally financed American NGO. "And it was obvious a huge part of what was going on today was a political show for public consumption."
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