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Egypt bans top human rights lawyer from travel abroad

A prominent Egyptian human rights lawyer says he has been banned from leaving the country, the latest in a series of travel bans imposed on rights activists. Negad Borai, who runs the United Group for Law, says he was heading to Jordan to visit his wife when airport authorities informed him...

Six years after uprising, Sisi says Egypt 'on right track'

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Wednesday that Egypt was "on the right track" six years after the uprising that overthrew Hosni Mubarak. Speaking in televised address commemorating the revolution, Sisi called on young activists who took part in mass protests in 2011 to work for...