Egyptian NGOs complain of being shut out of Cop27 climate summit
Civil society groups say covert screening process excluded government’s critics A group of Egyptian civil society organisations have been prevented from attending the Cop27 climate...
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At least 41 people killed in Egypt church fire, say officials
Security sources say majority of dead are children after blaze breaks out at Coptic Abu Sifin church in Giza A fire sparked by an electrical...
Fears that Egypt may use Cop27 to whitewash human rights abuses
Naomi Klein and Caroline Lucas among signatories to letter voicing concerns over country’s hosting of climate summit A hundred days before the Cop27 summit is...
Lavrov’s African tour another front in struggle between west and Moscow
Analysis: Foreign minister seeks to win friends and influence people in countries where closeness can be traced back to USSR Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign...
UN urged to move Cop27 from Egypt over ‘LGBTQ+ torture’
US adviser to the White House and partner call on UN to move climate crisis summit over fears they would be targeted A White House...
Anger as families of US detainees in Middle East left off Blinken call
‘Infuriating’ exclusions made just weeks before Joe Biden’s Saudi visit and expected rapprochement with the crown prince Family members of several US nationals who are...
Two women killed in shark attacks in Egypt’s Red Sea
A Romanian and an Austrian die within 600 metres of each other south of city of Hurghada Two women have been killed in shark attacks...
‘It’s a sham’: Egypt accused of restricting protest in run-up to Cop27
Climate activists say plight of jailed Alaa Abd El Fattah shows protesters’ voices will be ignored at Sharm el-Sheikh summit Five months before a pivotal...
Trove of ancient Egyptian coffins and statues found at cemetery near Cairo
Painted wooden coffins and bronze statues of deities dating to 500BC found by archaeologists in Saqqara Archaeologists working near Cairo have uncovered hundreds of ancient...
Former head of Louvre charged in Egyptian artefacts trafficking case
Jean-Luc Martinez is accused of conspiring to hide origin of works taken out of Egypt during Arab spring The former president of the Louvre museum...
