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Hunger-striking mother of jailed activist prepared to die to ‘get Alaa out’

Hunger-striking mother of jailed activist prepared to die to ‘get Alaa out’

Laila Soueif, who has lost 42% of her bodyweight and weighs 49kg, has not eaten for more than eight months in protest of her son’s sentence in Egypt.

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Reform UK bombshell as poll tips Nigel Farage to win Commons majority

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Huge burqa row shows Reform still needs to urgently get a grip

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Keir Starmer can't truthfully name one single thing he's got right for UK voters

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Biden insists 'I made the decisions' as Republicans investigate White House autopen use

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Nigel Farage Reform UK gunning for shock breakthrough in Scotland in 'two horse' by-election race against SNP

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Tesla sales slump sees China's BYD overtake Elon Musk's electric car firm in Britain

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Bereaved families of dead pensioners ‘could be pursued by taxman to recoup winter fuel payments’

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Pupils eligible for free school meals in England, by local area

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Polls opens in Holyrood by-election that Swinney says is ‘two-horse race’

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Holiday misery to finally end for Brits as new e-gates open at popular EU airport

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Huge petition to axe benefits for asylum seekers hits major new milestone

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Reform UK civil war erupts over burqa ban as new MP thrown under bus

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After former Leafs and Blue Jays players, CRA now goes after ex-Raptors star Norman Powell

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Half a million more kids will be entitled to free school meals in massive expansion of the scheme

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'Contemptible' Thames Water accused in Parliament of 'telling lies to the British public' in dividends row

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Polling opens in Holyrood by-election that Swinney says is ‘two horse race’

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Badenoch to launch review examining whether UK should pull out of ECHR

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More than one in four pupils in England now eligible for free school meals

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Half of London boroughs warn they face bankruptcy over insufficient schools funding

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Burqa ban row explodes on GB News as guest calls Reform MP 'racist'

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Rachel Reeves's outrageous plot to grab winter fuel cash from families of dead pensioners

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Donald Trump bans travel from 12 countries to the US as he warns against threat from 'foreign terrorists'

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Kendall: I’m giving 500,000 more children free school meals – hunger is a national disgrace

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Trump issues proclamation to block new foreign students from studying at Harvard

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