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CAIRO, EGYPT - SEPTEMBER 23: The British-Egyptian activist and blogger Alaa Abd El-Fattah and his mother, Laila Soueif, are at his home after his release on September 23, 2025 in Cairo, Egypt. Alaa Abd el-Fattah, (also spelled Alaa Abdel Fattah) a British-Egyptian writer and pro-democracy activist who has spent more than 10 years as a political prisoner in Egypt, was pardoned by Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Monday. (Photo by Sayed Hassan/Getty Images)

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Channel: UK UK December 26, 2025 By Sarah Hooper
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epa12497746 An image created by drones depicting the funerary mask of Tutankhamun lights up the sky above the Grand Egyptian Museum during the opening ceremony in Giza, Egypt, 01 November 2025. The Grand Egyptian Museum, the world's largest museum dedicated to a single civilization, was officially opened on 01 November 2025 with an inauguration ceremony attended by numerous heads of state. EPA/MOHAMED HOSSAM

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CAIRO, EGYPT - SEPTEMBER 23: The British-Egyptian activist and blogger Alaa Abd El-Fattah and his mother, Laila Soueif, are at his home after his release on September 23, 2025 in Cairo, Egypt. Alaa Abd el-Fattah, (also spelled Alaa Abdel Fattah) a British-Egyptian writer and pro-democracy activist who has spent more than 10 years as a political prisoner in Egypt, was pardoned by Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Monday. (Photo by Sayed Hassan/Getty Images)

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Channel: World World September 23, 2025 By Sarah Hooper
Egyptian army special forces soldiers deploy before the concrete barrier marking the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip in Rafah in the east of North Sinai province on October 20, 2023 during a visit there by the United Nations secretary-general to oversee preparations for the delivery of humanitarian aid to the war-torn Palestinian enclave. (Photo by Kerolos SALAH / AFP) (Photo by KEROLOS SALAH/AFP via Getty Images) *** BESTPIX ***

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Channel: World World September 22, 2025 By Sarah Hooper
Image shows Pharaoh Amenemope’s lapis lazuli bead jewellery was taken from Cairo’s Egyptian Museum on September 9. (Picture: Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities via AP/)

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Channel: World World September 22, 2025 By Herbie Russell
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