Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pardoned high-profile Egyptian-British activist, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, after a lengthy imprisonment and repeated hunger strikes that prompted international pleas for his release,

The dispute and rivalry between these allies of US imperialism in the region primarily concerns their shares in the carve up of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi issued a pardon on Monday for prominent activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah, a presidential statement said. The step took observers by surprise and sparked speculation that Abdel-Fattah, 43, was being exchanged for an Egyptian national being held by the United Kingdom.

Alaa Abdel-Fattah rose to prominence as an impassioned voice in the Arab Spring uprising but has spent almost all of the past decade in prison.

In 2008, researchers discovered a roughly 2.75-inch-long cow toe bone inside a building located in a worker settlement known as the Stone Village. Experts identified the bone as belonging to a juvenile animal and documented a single,

Singapore and Egypt agreed to explore the feasibility of a free trade agreement and plan to step up economic cooperation.

Egypt freed British-Egyptian dual citizen Alaa Abd El Fattah, the country’s most prominent political prisoner, after nearly 12 years in jail. Abd El Fattah, a major leader of the 2011 Arab spring protests,

The decision by President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi of Egypt not to sign a flawed Criminal Procedure Code and to send it back to parliament for revision was a positive move.