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Cautious optimism in UK on progress to secure British-Egyptian dissident’s release

ByPatrick Wintour

Writer’s mother eases hunger strike as Starmer raises Alaa Abd el-Fattah case in phone call with Egypt’s presidentThe family of Alaa Abd el-Fattah have expressed cautious optimism that progress is being made to secure the British-Egyptian dissident’s r…

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Cautious optimism in UK on progress to secure British-Egyptian dissident’s release

ByPatrick Wintour

Writer’s mother eases hunger strike as Starmer raises Alaa Abd el-Fattah case in phone call with Egypt’s presidentThe family of Alaa Abd el-Fattah have expressed cautious optimism that progress is being made to secure the British-Egyptian dissident’s r…

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Ministers refuse to name companies that lobbied them over foreign ownership of UK newspapers

ByMichael Savage Media editor

Revealed: Crossbench peers scrutinising proposed law change say they were told not to share companies involvedUK politics live – latest updatesMinisters are refusing to name the media companies that lobbied them over laws restricting foreign state owne…

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UK protest group Palestine Action denies Iran funding as it faces ban

ByHaroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent

Home Office to ban group under anti-terrorism laws, with officials said to be investigating whether it is funded by IranPalestine Action has condemned a briefing by Home Office officials that it could be funded by Iran as “baseless smears”.The home sec…

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Nato members willingly increasing defence spending amid rising threat from Russia, says Rutte

ByPjotr Sauer and Dan Sabbagh in The Hague

Exclusive: As alliance members arrive at The Hague summit, secretary general says Moscow capable of launching attack within three to five yearsMark Rutte, Nato’s secretary general, said it was “not a difficult thing” to get members to agree to raise de…