"These steps are being taken in airport facilities where the United States already has a cooperative relationship with the airport authorities," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said during a daily press briefing.
Earnest said the measures will boost security procedures already in place "to ensure the safety of Americans who may be traveling overseas."
The measures taken include "expanded screening," "updated airport assessments" and "other forms of assistance that the United States can provide to airport authorities" to better secure airport facilities, Earnest said.
The Airbus A-321 operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia crashed early Saturday in the Sinai Peninsula shortly after taking off from Egypt's Red Sea resort Sharm el-Sheikh. All 224 people onboard were killed.
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Egypt criticized its foreign partners on Nov. 7 for ignoring calls to work harder to combat terrorism, after Western intelligence sources said there were signs Islamist militants may have bombed the Russian plane which crashed in Sinai. ..
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All 224 people on board were killed in what the militants described as revenge for Russian air strikes against Islamist fighters in Syria.
Russia, Turkey and several European countries have suspended flights to Sharm al-Sheikh and the United States has imposed new air travel security requirements in the wake of the crash.
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, speaking hours before authorities were due to make an announcement about their investigations so far, said it would be wrong to speculate on the cause until findings were delivered.
But he said Cairo was not ruling out any possibility, and suggested countries now flagging the likelihood that militants were behind the crash should have heeded Egypt's repeated calls for coordination to combat militants.
"The spread of terrorism, which we have for a long time called on our partners to tackle more seriously, did not get through to many of the parties which are now exposed and which are currently working for the interests of their citizens to face this danger," Shoukry told a news conference.
He also expressed frustration that foreign intelligence about the cause of the crash had not been passed on to Cairo.....REUTERS.............hurriyetdailynews.com
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