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The UN estimates about 114,000 people are jailed in Egypt's appalling prisons [File: Khaled Desouki/AFP]

‘Utterly deplorable’: Egypt’s ‘abusive’ prisons denounced

Rights group says thousands held for years in overcrowded prisons with abysmal conditions; given unhealthy food.

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Talks starting Monday are informal and non-binding, but could eventually produce a formal process of negotiation resulting in a treaty [File: AFP]

Greece, Turkey launch Mediterranean crisis talks after 5 years

Resumption of exploratory talks after five-year hiatus comes after year of tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean.

A general view of the northeastern Indian state of Sikkim bordering China [File: Agnes Bun/AFP]
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People wearing face masks depart from a train station in Auckland, New Zealand, August 31, 2020 [File: Fiona Goodall/ Reuters]

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The US is tightening restrictions on international arrivals as it tries to tackle new variants of the virus [File: Jae C Hong/AP Photo]

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The number of North Koreans defecting to the South has dropped sharply as a result of increasingly strict measures against COVID-19 [File: Kim Won Jin/AFP]

Senior North Korean diplomat defects to South: Reports

Amazon oil extraction contributes to climate change and adversely impacts the health and livelihoods of local Indigenous groups, environmental and Indigenous activists warn [File: Ivan Castaneira/Agencia Tegantai]

Ecuadorian Amazon: Three European banks stop funding trade of oil

The coronavirus pandemic has hurt people living in poverty far harder than the rich, UK-based charity Oxfam says in its latest report [File: Agustin Marcarian/Reuters]

COVID has worsened inequality even as the rich thrive: Oxfam

Farmers participate in an earlier 'tractor rally' on a highway on the outskirts of New Delhi [File: Adnan Abidi/Reuters]

Indian farmers to hold ‘tractor rally’ in capital on Republic Day


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Talks starting Monday are informal and non-binding, but could eventually produce a formal process of negotiation resulting in a treaty [File: AFP]

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A general view of the northeastern Indian state of Sikkim bordering China [File: Agnes Bun/AFP]
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People wearing face masks depart from a train station in Auckland, New Zealand, August 31, 2020 [File: Fiona Goodall/ Reuters]

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The US is tightening restrictions on international arrivals as it tries to tackle new variants of the virus [File: Jae C Hong/AP Photo]

Biden reinstates US COVID travel restrictions, adds South Africa

The US has reported more cases of coronavirus than anywhere else in the world [File: Jae C. Hong/AP Photo]

US passes 25m COVID cases, over a quarter of world’s infections

The number of North Koreans defecting to the South has dropped sharply as a result of increasingly strict measures against COVID-19 [File: Kim Won Jin/AFP]

Senior North Korean diplomat defects to South: Reports

Amazon oil extraction contributes to climate change and adversely impacts the health and livelihoods of local Indigenous groups, environmental and Indigenous activists warn [File: Ivan Castaneira/Agencia Tegantai]

Ecuadorian Amazon: Three European banks stop funding trade of oil

The coronavirus pandemic has hurt people living in poverty far harder than the rich, UK-based charity Oxfam says in its latest report [File: Agustin Marcarian/Reuters]

COVID has worsened inequality even as the rich thrive: Oxfam

Farmers participate in an earlier 'tractor rally' on a highway on the outskirts of New Delhi [File: Adnan Abidi/Reuters]

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Protestors carry an Egyptian flag through Tahrir Square on January 31, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt [Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images]

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In this file photo from 2011, inhabitants of Sidi Bouzid chant slogans during a demonstration in front of the government palace in Tunis [File: Fethi Belaid/AFP]

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In a photo from January 2011, Tunisian protesters demonstrate beneath a poster of Mohamed Bouazizi, near the prime minister's office in Tunis [File:Salah Habibi/AP Photo]

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Mohamed Bouazizi is depicted on a post office facade in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia [Riadh Dridi/AP Photo]

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A Tunisian demonstrator throws a rock during clashes with security forces in Regueb, near Sidi Bouzid on January 10, 2011 [Fethi Belaid/AFP]

How I photographed the start of Tunisia’s Arab Spring

Ten years ago, a wave of revolt spread across the Arab world from Tunisia to Egypt, Syria and Yemen [File: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images]

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Tunisians chant slogans as they gather at Mohamed Bouazizi Square in the central Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid on December 17, 2020, during commemorations of the 10th anniversary of Bouazizi's self-immolation [Fethi Belaid/AFP]

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Vietnam’s Communist Party meets to pick new leaders, set strategy

Continuity expected as Vietnam seeks to balance China and the United States.

The 13th National Congress of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam, is due to get under way in Hanoi on Monday [Kham/Reuters]
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