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Britain's Foreign Secretary Liz Truss says she is seeking a meeting with her Egyptian counterpart to secure the release of a jailed activist who has been on a partial hunger strike since April.
Alaa Abdel Fattah was given British citizenship through his British-born mother.
He was a key figure in the 2011 uprising that ousted Egypt's autocratic president Hosni Mubarak.
Mr Fattah was given a five-year jail sentence last December after being accused of spreading false news.
His family has welcomed Ms Truss's pledge, saying time to help him is running out.
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Egypt has signed a raft of deals with Saudi Arabia worth nearly $8bn (£6.5bn) during a visit to Cairo by the Gulf kingdom's de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
It includes a $1.5bn investment in a wind power plant in Egypt, the government said in a statement.
This was the Saudi crown prince's first tour outside the Gulf for three years.
He will later travel for talks with the leaders of Jordan, then Turkey - in what will be the latest step in restoring ties damaged by the killing of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in 2018.
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Tunisian coast guards say they have retrieved the bodies of four migrants after their boat sank off the port city of Sfax.
In recent months dozens of migrants have drowned as increasing numbers have attempted to reach Europe in small boats from Tunisia and Libya.
Many are fleeing conflict and poverty in Africa and the Middle East.
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A military appeal court in Tunisia has sentenced a prominent political opponent of President Kais Saied to one year in prison and banned him from practising law for five years.
A lawyer for Seifeddine Makhlouf said his client had been charged with insulting a judge, and that the verdict was a real farce.
He said President Saied had created a judiciary that he could control and use against opponents.
Makhlouf heads the conservative Karama party, which is allied to the Islamist Ennadha party.
He has been one of the strongest critics of Mr Saied's moves to establish what is effectively one-man rule.
Earlier this month, Mr Saied sacked dozens of judges, accusing them of protecting Islamists.
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Morocco's King Mohammed VI has tested positive for Covid-19, but with no symptoms, the monarch's personal doctor says, according to state news agency MAP.
Thursday's statement from Dr Lahcen Belyamani, quoted by MAP, said that the monarch would take a few days of rest.
The independent English-language website Morocco World News noted that royal doctors were likely to "keep a close eye on the monarch's health", noting his previous heart condition appeared to have "improved significantly over the past two years".
The pro-monarchy outlet also noted that Covid-19 infections had risen in the country in the past month from a few dozen cases daily to 1,568 infections recorded in the previous 24 hours.
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The sister of the Moroccan man who has been sentenced to death by a Russian proxy court in eastern Ukraine says she feels his story is being ignored - and that he may be forgotten.
Brahim Saadoune was sentenced alongside Britons Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner, who have received much more coverage.
Saadoune, 21, was studying in Ukraine but signed up to fight in the defence of Mariupol.
When he surrendered - he was put on trial, along with the other two, not as a soldier but a mercenary.
"At first, when they both captured all of them, then it was like different news about every person," Imane Saadoune says.
"There wasn't much attention on my brother… he was left aside a little bit. Maybe it's because of my government they're not doing much about it, they are literally silent and nobody is claiming him."
The three men do have a chance to appeal but the separatists have said they see no reason not to put them to death.
It has been left to his friends to campaign for his life.
"He has a lot of support. His friends, they are real friends, just starting many campaigns for him. I just want to tell him that he is loved. He's really loved."
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A nationwide strike by state employees in Tunisia is taking place.
The most powerful union in Tunisia called for the stoppage to protest against the economic policies of the President Kais Saied in the latest challenge to his rule.
The UGTT union has urged its one million members to observe the strike across the country to protest against government plans for a wage freeze and cuts in subsidies, aimed at securing a $4bn (£3.3bn) loan from the International Monetary Fund to ease Tunisia's economic crisis.
Flights to and from Tunisia are being halted as a result of the industrial action.
The union says its motive is not political, but it is bound to be seen as another challenge to President Saied, who has effectively assumed one-man rule for the past year.
The UGTT is in any case already caught up in a showdown with the government after it refused to engage in Mr Saied's plans for a new constitution.
The next 24 hours are likely to see the fault lines in Tunisia become even sharper.
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Government employees in Tunisia are to stage a nationwide strike in the latest challenge to the rule of President Kais Saied.
The day of industrial action by the general labour union was called to protest against the economic policy under Mr Saied.
He has in effect assumed personal rule after suspending parliament last year.
The union has refused to engage with his plans to reform the constitution.
The Tunisian employment minister, Nasreddine Nsibi, told state media the strike would cost millions of dollars during a financial crisis while the government was negotiating with international lenders to secure wheat, medicine and fuel supplies.
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