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Surge of fossil fuel lobbyists at climate talks: watchdogs
Surge of fossil fuel lobbyists at climate talks: watchdogs

Fossil fuel lobbyists have flooded UN climate talks in Egypt, a report by watchdog groups said Thursday, as calls grow at the summit for a windfall tax on oil majors' bumper profits. The groups called on the United Nations to restrict access to the talks for fossil fuel firms, which the UN chief Antonio Guterres has said are "poisoning our planet".

Biden hits world stage with midterms spring in his step
Biden hits world stage with midterms spring in his step

US President Joe Biden returns to the world stage with a spring in his step after midterm elections he sees proving that, in the global contest between democracy and autocracy, good guys don't always come last. The tense midterms campaign had left the world wondering which Biden would show up.

Egypt hunger-striker Abdel Fattah 'under medical intervention': family
Egypt hunger-striker Abdel Fattah 'under medical intervention': family

The family of Egypt's jailed dissident Alaa Abdel Fattah, who has been refusing food and water, said Thursday prison authorities had told them he is "under medical intervention". His mother Laila Soueif, at the Wadi al-Natroun prison north of Cairo, was informed that "medical intervention was taken" with Abdel Fattah "with the knowledge of judicial entities", his sister Mona Seif wrote on Twitter.