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On the global day of action in support of the al-Jazeera journalists detained in Egypt, Guardian Australia stands in solidarity with all persecuted and threatened journalists ...

s home country, Qatar, as supportive of the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamist leaders in Egypt. Carlstrom quotes Michael Wahid Hanna, a fellow at the New York-based Century Foundation, as saying: "One of the things that leads to all of this is that Qatar is hosting, supporting, providing a place of refuge for Brotherhood leaders... and providing a platform through Al-Jazeera." He points to the appearance...

Though sexual discrimination remains widespread in Africa, a study of 34 countries reveals growing support for women's rights There was the Ugandan minister who defended raping girls as "natural", echoing a similar attitude among Nigerian lawmakers . In Somalia, a court sentenced an alleged rape victim to jail without bringing the accused men to court. This spring, Mozambique could pass a...

s deep malaise, three years after its revolution Egypt names Ibrahim Mahlab as new prime minister Egypt has produced another of its "what just happened?" moments: the abrupt resignation of the entire cabinet on Monday, which apparently took the United States and even many cabinet members themselves by surprise. What is behind this latest development, and what does it tell us about the state of post-Mubarak...

crush terrorism' and crack down on rise in violence A former member of Hosni Mubarak's political party has been appointed as Egypt's new prime minister, a day after the cabinet announced its shock resignation , vowing to crack down on the militant violence that has blighted Egypt since the overthrow of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi. Ibrahim Mahlab spoke after his appointment by Adly Mansour – the...

s problems Egypt is braced for its sixth government since the start of the 2011 uprising, after the prime minister announced the early resignation of the entire interim cabinet on Monday afternoon. Hazem al-Beblawy, appointed in the days following the removal of Mohamed Morsi last July , was meant to head Egypt's government until the election of a new president, but resigned on Monday after weeks of...

s ex-president and Muslim Brotherhood figurehead could face capital punishment if found guilty of espionage An Egyptian prosecutor on Sunday accused the ousted Islamist president of passing state secrets to Iran's Revolutionary Guard, the first such explicit detail in an ongoing espionage trial. If convicted, Mohamed Morsi could face capital punishment. He already stands accused of a string of other...

s first elected president. Squashed against Deeb was Mohamed Abdelmahboud, a 43-year-old seed merchant and a member of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood . Following four days of mass protests against his year-long rule, the army had overthrown Morsi and the Brotherhood in early July. In response, tens of thousands of people camped outside the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque in east Cairo to call for the president's...

Juris Greste confesses to ‘the worst 24 hours in my life’ as Australian al-Jazeera journalist faced Egyptian court ...

s Cairo bureau chief, is known for his coverage of Egypt's restive Sinai peninsula. He is a Canadian-Egyptian citizen. They deny the charges against them, apart from those relating to their paperwork, arguing that they are being prosecuted for simply doing their job in a difficult political climate. The trial was postponed to March 5, and bail requests by their lawyers were denied. The case has been...

At an Israeli safe house, Ethiopian women sold into slavery team up with a photographer to tell their stories Harriet Grant ...

t unique: news and entertainment have fought each other on the airwaves and in print for generations in every media market. But in Italy, big-business media acquisitions - particularly under the guidance of media mogul and disgraced former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi - have concentrated the powers of mass distraction into the hands of a very few. Ask an Italian what is going on outside the country's...

Israeli Mossad officers' and two Egyptians charged with spying after militants claim responsibility for Sinai bus bombing Egypt's public prosecutor has charged four men with spying for Israel, as it also condemned an apparent escalation by Egypt's jihadist insurgency against the new military-backed authorities. In a statement, the prosecution office ordered the arrest of Samuel Ben Zeev and David Wisemen,...

s former staff, Peter Greste, from prison. He is due to face trial in Cairo this week with two of his Al-Jazeera colleagues, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed, on charges of spreading false news. The BBC's director of news and current affairs, James Harding, and his deputy, Fran Unsworth, are calling for his release. They are joined by ITN's chief executive, John Hardie, and the head of Sky News, John...

s 84 million people, a number set to double by 2050, are crowded along the Nile and the Mediterranean coast, woefully short of land, water, electricity, housing and jobs. Water supplies in Cairo were so bad in 2011 that some described the popular uprising that brought down Hosni Mubarak as a "revolution of the thirsty". His successor, President Mohamed Morsi, also lost popularity and in the end his...

s foreign ministry said in a statement. Three South Koreans – two men and a woman – were killed along with the Egyptian driver, the ministry confirmed. Another 13 were injured. The tourists were all members of a church group from the central South Korean county of Jincheon who were on a 12-day trip through Turkey, Egypt and Israel. "We believe that terrorism can never be justified under any circumstances...

s the highest spike ever in all Egyptian history," said Magued Osman, director of Egypt's leading statistics firm, Baseera, and former head of a government thinktank. "It's unheard of to have such a jump in a two-year period." The rising population is seen as a social timebomb which, if untackled, will exhaust Egypt's depleted resources, worsen a dire jobs market, and contribute to yet more social...

s ousted president Mohamed Morsi walked out of court on Sunday to protest against the soundproof glass cage in which defendants are held during proceedings, state TV reported. The judge Shaaban el-Shamy ordered the trial to be adjourned until 23 February after the lawyers left the hearing, the first in a case in which Morsi and 35 others are facing charges of conspiring with foreign groups and undermining...

s longest river in its entirety. But as the subtitle makes clear, this one covers the Egyptian section, less than a fifth of the whole. On an occasionally bumpy journey downstream through history and landscape, from Aswan to Cairo, from "the dawn of time" to the recent toppling of presidents and subsequent plundering of museums and tombs, the Nile emerges as potent as ever, the sole bringer of life...

The parents of Australian journalist Peter Greste, who faces terrorism charges in Egypt, talk of the stress caused by his detention in Cairo ...