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Freshwater fish swim into trouble as climate change increases threat: IUCN
AFP, Published on 11/12/2023
» DUBAI - A quarter of freshwater fish species worldwide are at risk of extinction, according to an update to the global red list of threatened species on Monday, highlighting the escalating impacts of human-caused climate change on the planet's wildlife.
Egypt election offers more of the same despite crisis
AFP, Published on 10/12/2023
» CAIRO: Egyptians vote on Sunday in a presidential election overshadowed by war in neighbouring Gaza and with little doubt that the incumbent Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will secure a third term.
'We are dying': Migrants' plea from Libya-Tunisia border
AFP, Published on 27/07/2023
» RAS JEDIR (LIBYA) - African migrants pleaded to be saved from a desert zone between Libya and Tunisia on Wednesday, weeks after Tunisian authorities allegedly dumped dozens of them there with nothing.
Berlusconi's many brushes with the law
AFP, Published on 12/06/2023
» ROME - Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was dogged throughout his life by legal woes and scandal, which became as much a part of his legend as his work in politics, media and sport.
Rwandan president purges military
AFP, Published on 07/06/2023
» KIGALI, Rwanda: Rwandan President Paul Kagame has embarked on a major shakeup of the country's military, with a round of dismissals announced Wednesday after the appointment of a new defence minister, army chief and head of internal security.
Jailed at 17, dissident wrote to survive
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 02/04/2023
» Abdelrahman ElGendy envisioned the ending of his book would be inspiring, despite all the horrors he would have to recount.
Italy's Berlusconi acquitted in starlet bribery trial
AFP, Published on 15/02/2023
» An Italian court on Wednesday acquitted billionaire former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi of bribing witnesses to lie about his notorious "bunga bunga" parties, bringing closure to a years-long sex scandal.
Jailed Egypt hunger striker says 'doing well' in letter
AFP, Published on 14/11/2022
» CAIRO - Jailed British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah has written he is "doing well" and is taking liquids after fears rose for his health amid a months-long hunger strike, his family said Monday.
Three Egyptian journalists start hunger strike to free dissident
AFP, Published on 07/11/2022
» CAIRO - Three Egyptian journalists said Monday they had begun hunger strikes to demand authorities free Alaa Abdel Fattah, a jailed political dissident who has been refusing food and now water too.
New capital rises, but at what price?
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 30/10/2022
» Sprawled across a patch of desert four times the size of Washington, DC, a showy new capital is rising in Egypt, imperial in scale and style, embodying the grandiose ambitions of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi and his mantle as the country's unchallenged ruler.