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British PM Sunak to keep pressing Egypt over hunger striker

British PM Sunak to keep pressing Egypt over hunger striker

BRITISH Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he would keep pressing Egypt over imprisoned Egyptian-British hunger striker Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who has had no contact with his family since he said he would stop drinking water this week. Sunak, who raised the case with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi at the U.N. climate summit at an Egyptian Red Sea resort on Monday, said the situation was becoming "more urgent by the day. "We will continue to press the Egyptian government to resolve the situation. We want to see Alaa freed and reunited with his family as soon as possible," Sunak told the…
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British PM Truss: ‘I am a fighter, not a quitter’

British PM Truss: ‘I am a fighter, not a quitter’

BRITISH Prime Minister Liz Truss defied calls from opposition lawmakers to resign after having U-turned on her proposed economic plans, saying she was a "fighter" and not a "quitter". Responding to a question from opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer in parliament on why she should remain in power, Truss said: "I am a fighter and not a quitter." "I have acted in the national interest to make sure that we have economic stability." Thomson Reuters Foundation
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