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23 November 2011 - Cairo, Egypt - Protesters gather near Mohamed Mahmoud Street. On the wall a meassge saying "Free Alaa". Street battles raged around the heavily fortified Interior Ministry, near Tahrir square, with police and army troops using tear gas and rubber bullets to keep the protesters from storming the ministry. The clashes have left at least 38 killed and 2,000 protesters wounded, mostly from gas inhalation or injuries caused by rubber bullets fired by the army and the police. The United Nations strongly condemned what it called the use of excessive force by security forces. The clashes resumed despite a promise by Egypt's military ruler to speed up a presidential election to the first half of next year, a concession swiftly rejected by tens of thousands of protesters in Tahrir Square. The military previously floated late next year or early 2013 as the likely date for the vote, the last step in the process of transferring power to a civilian government. The standoff has plunged the country deeper into crisis less than a week before parliamentary elections, the first since the ouster nine months ago of longtime authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak. Photo credit: Benedicte Desrus / Sipa Press/bdcairo.007/1111232142

Nobel Laureates Press Egypt to Free Alaa Abd El Fattah, Writer on Hunger Strike, Before COP27

Robert Mackey

- Nov. 2, 2022

Nobel winners have urged world leaders to use their remarks at the COP27 climate conference in Egypt to press for the release of political prisoners, including Alaa Abd El Fattah.

A video grab from the French TV channel LCI taken on June 1, 2017, shows French President Emmanuel Macron speaking during a live broadcast in Paris, after US president Donald Trump announced the United States was to pull out of the 2015 Paris climate accord.President Donald Trump declared June 1, 2017, that the United States will withdraw from the 2015 Paris accord and try to negotiate a new global deal on climate change. / AFP PHOTO / LCI / - / XGTY / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / LCI" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)

French President Emmanuel Macron Offers Refuge to American Climate Scientists

Robert Mackey

- Jun. 1, 2017

Macron offered Americans a message like those once delivered by U.S. presidents addressing people suffering under the yoke of dictatorship.