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Factbox-National political dialogue in Egypt follows years of crackdowns
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt plans to launch a national political dialogue in the coming weeks, a test of whether authorities are prepared to ease a crackdown on dissent that critics say is the most severe...
Jul 29, 2022
Philippines detects first case of monkeypox
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines has reported its first case of the monkeypox virus, detected in a citizen who returned from abroad earlier this month, a health ministry official said on Friday. The...
Jul 29, 2022
Factbox-Egypt keeps former powerhouse Muslim Brotherhood out of politics
(Reuters) - After years of sweeping crackdowns on dissent, Egypt is set to launch a political dialogue, but the once-powerful and now outlawed Muslim Brotherhood is excluded. Long viewed as the most i...
Jul 29, 2022
Detentions loom over Egypt’s political dialogue
By Aidan Lewis and Farah Saafan CAIRO (Reuters) - After nine years of sweeping crackdowns on dissent, Egypt is set to launch a carefully choreographed political dialogue, but the main Islamist opposit...
Jul 29, 2022
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood rejects ‘struggle for power’, exiled leader says
By Dominic Evans LONDON (Reuters) - Egypt's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood will not launch a new struggle for power with authorities which toppled it from government nine years ago, even though the movem...
Jul 29, 2022
Hungary’s Orban expects gas deal with Russia this summer
BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungary expects to sign a deal with Russia on additional gas shipments of 700 million cubic metres by the end of summer, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told state radio on Friday. The...
Jul 29, 2022
Analysis-EU gas solidarity complicated by lack of fuel sharing deals
By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union clinched a deal this week to cope with a gas supply crisis, but to make it work member states need to establish bilateral pacts to share gas and,...
Jul 29, 2022
World Bank says no new plans for financing for Sri Lanka
(Reuters) - The World Bank does not plan to offer new financing to Sri Lanka until an adequate macroeconomic policy framework is in place, it said in a statement on Thursday. The World Bank stressed t...
Jul 29, 2022
UK says Russia’s Wagner allocated responsibility for specific sectors of front line in Ukraine
(Reuters) - Russian private military firm Wagner has likely been allocated responsibility for specific sectors of the front line in eastern Ukraine, possibly as Russia is facing a major shortage of co...
Jul 28, 2022
Migrants escape from suffocating people-smuggling trailer in Mexico
By Tamara Corro ACAYUCAN, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexican authorities rescued nearly 100 migrants who escaped from a stifling trailer being driven by a people smuggler in the coastal state of Veracruz, off...
Jul 28, 2022
