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Egypt's Criminal Court designated the Sinai-based Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis militant group as a "terrorist body", placing its founder on a "terror list", alongside 207 other group members, the prosecution said on Saturday. Egypt's top prosecutor Hisham Barakat said in a statement that the ruling was issued in a court session on Thursday, adding that it was based on his request. The decision comes in implementation of an anti-terrorism legislation issued in February to prepare a "list of terrorist bodies" and a…