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The Latest Breaking News from Egypt

Jailed Egyptian hunger striker had medical intervention: Family

Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s family fear prison officials in Egypt have force-fed him, which they say would amount to torture.

Al Jazeera

COP27: UN food agency plan on farming emissions to launch by next year after investor push

The U.N. food agency aims to launch a plan within the year to make the world's food system more sustainable, a senior executive told Reuters on the sidelines of the COP27 climate talks in Egypt.

Reuters

Lawyer says Egypt prosecutor gives him permission to visit activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah in jail - Twitter

A member of the defence team of Egyptian-British hunger striker Alaa Abd el-Fattah tweeted on Thursday that he had been granted permission by Egypt's state prosecutor to visit him in prison.

Reuters

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'Unstoppable' renewables help climate, security: experts at COP27

Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt) (AFP) - Russia's war in Ukraine has forced a short-term scramble for fossil fuels but the rise of solar, wind and other clean energies is "unstoppable", the head of International Renewable Energy Agency told AFP.

AFP

Middle East round-up: Alaa Abd el-Fattah, Egypt and COP27

Here’s a round-up of Al Jazeera’s Middle East coverage this week.

Al Jazeera

Brit on hunger strike admitted to hospital with fears he's being force-fed at prison

Omar Robert Hamilton, Alaa Abdel-Fattah's cousin and an editor of his recent Selected Works told the Mirror how worried the family is at this latest news from Egypt

Daily Mirror

Drinks at Egypt climate talks now free, jailed activist not

Drinks are on the house at this year’s U.N. climate talks and the price of food will be slashed in half, Egypt’s foreign minister said Thursday following complaints from delegates

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Dash for gas imperils 1.5C climate goal: report

Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt) (AFP) - The global scramble for natural gas after Russia's invasion of Ukraine threatens the Paris Agreement target of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, scientists said Thursday on the sidelines of UN climate talks in Egypt.

AFP

Jailed Egyptian hunger striker is hospitalized, family says

Family say Egyptian prison authorities have intervened medically with jailed pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah, who this week escalated a food and hunger strike demanding his release

The Independent UK

Egypt prison puts hunger-striker Abdel Fattah 'under medical intervention'

Cairo (AFP) - The family of Egypt's jailed dissident Alaa Abdel Fattah said Thursday prison authorities had told them he is "under medical intervention", as fear mounts that he is being force-fed.

AFP

Civil society groups report surveillance and intimidation at Cop27

Attenders say actions of Egyptian authorities are threatening their participation at conference

The Guardian - UK

Surge of fossil fuel lobbyists at climate talks: watchdogs

Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt) (AFP) - Fossil fuel lobbyists have flooded UN climate talks in Egypt, a report by watchdog groups said Thursday, even as calls grow at the summit for a windfall tax on oil majors' bumper profits.

AFP

Report: War-triggered gas boom threatens world climate goal

The planning and buildup of liquified and other natural gas would add 2 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (1.9 billion metric tons) a year to the air by 2030, according to a report released Thursday by Climate Action Tracker at international climate talks in Egypt

The Independent UK

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

Cairo (AFP) - 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".

AFP

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The Independent UK

Alaa Abd El-Fattah: British Egyptian hunger striker taken into medical care in prison

The prominent human rights activist stopped drinking water on Sunday

Reuters

Egyptian authorities intervene in prisoner's hunger strike, family says

The family of jailed Egyptian-British hunger striker Alaa Abd el-Fattah said on Thursday they had been informed by prison authorities that medical intervention was taken to maintain his health, four days after he escalated his protest.

AFP

US urges islands to set example for China, India on methane

Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt) (AFP) - US climate envoy John Kerry urged Pacific island states on Thursday to join global efforts to cut methane emissions in hopes it would sway major emitters China and India to follow suit.

The Guardian - UK

‘Explosion’ in number of fossil fuel lobbyists at Cop27 climate summit

Oil and gas industries have 636 representatives at Egypt conference – a rise of more than 25% on previous year

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AAP

Australian emissions nearly double Egypt's

A new global tracker launched by Al Gore has shed light on Australia's greenhouse gas emissions, showing its output nearly doubles that of Egypt.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Egypt Promotes New 100-Pound Banknote at COP27

Egypt promoted a new 100-pound banknote during the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27).

Reuters

Biden's COP27, G20 plans: Talk to Xi, pressure Russia, contain North Korea

President Joe Biden starts a week-long trip to Egypt and Asia on Thursday to grapple with some of the United States' thorniest foreign policy issues, boosted by a better-than-expected showing by Democrats in the midterm elections.

Reuters

Brazil's Lula at COP27 will offer to host future climate summit -sources

Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will offer to host a future global climate change summit when he attends the COP27 United Nations climate conference in Egypt next week, sources told Reuters on Wednesday.

AAP

Big polluters need to pay up, say Aussies

Australians want wealthy polluters to help pay for the impact of climate damage, new research shows, as COP27 talks continue in Egypt.

Zenger

The Mighty Nile Resists The Powers Of Nature, Including The Rising Sea

Farmland inundated with saltwater gradually eats away the soil in the Mediterranean town of Mutubes, in Kafr el-Sheikh province.

AFP

Countries diverge on future climate finance at COP27

Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt) (AFP) - High-level talks on scaling up finance for developing countries to green their economies and prepare for global warming impacts began Wednesday at the COP27 climate conference with negotiators differing on the funding's size and providers.

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