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Twitter on Wednesday unveiled – and then almost immediately scrapped – a new grey “official” label for some high-profile accounts as Elon Musk struggles to revamp the highly influential platform following his $44-billion buyout. “I just killed it,” Mus…

Climate change is outpacing the capacity of developing nations to cope with its devastating impacts, the Pakistani premier told COP27 on Tuesday, as his country reels from historic floods. Talks at the UN climate conference in Egypt have been dominated…

An Egyptian MP was removed from a COP27 press conference after defending British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah’s continued detention. Amr Darwish told the activist’s sister Sanaa Seif, who was on a panel at the event, that Abdel Fattah is “not a …

The Lebanese army has conducted training preparing itself to stop bank robberies and hostage situations, seemingly in response to the series of depositors freeing their own savings by force. The video, posted on Tuesday on the army’s official social me…

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu on Wednesday ordered his troops to withdraw from the occupied Ukrainian city of Kherson and take up defensive lines on the opposite bank of the River Dnipro. The announcement marked one of Russia’s most significan…

Tunisian activists and journalists took to the street Tuesday in support of Egyptian-British prisoner of conscience Alaa Abdel Fattah who escalated his months-long hunger strike by giving up water on Sunday. In the capital of Tunis, dozens of activists…

Several Arab leaders attended a regional meeting on Tuesday attended by a senior Israeli minister, according to reports. The meeting at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt reportedly included Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati, Egyptian President Abdel…

Iran has charged two women journalists with propaganda against the state, the judiciary said Tuesday, as it presses a crackdown on protests sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini. The clerical state has been rocked by a protest movement that er…

Dozens of Egyptian activists have been detained with daily crackdown raids taking place ahead of planned anti-government protests on Friday, at a time when the Egyptian regime is receiving a boost of international legitimacy hosting the 2022 UN Climate…

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have arrested prominent lawyer Mostafa Nili, one of more than a dozen rounded up amid a crackdown on protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death, his sister said. Guards intelligence agents detained Nili at Tehran’s Mehrabad int…