Opinion
China’s 70-year relationship with the Maghreb
China's top diplomat, Foreign Minister Wang Yi, maintained a 35-year-long tradition at the start of this year by
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has urged Egypt's President Sisi, to release Alaa Abd El-Fattah a British citizen and activist currently jailed in Cairo. Fattah was a key figure in the 2011 revolt that overthrew then Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Fattah was arrested by Egyptian authorities in September 2019 and later given a five-year sentence for "spreading false news". His mother, Laila Soueif, has been on hunger strike for 152 days in protest of the detention; PM Starmer had met with Souief in recent weeks to discuss her son’s case.
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