Greece sees migrant surge amid Libya-Turkey push for Mediterranean energy expansion
More than 5,000 migrants from Libya have landed on Crete and Gavdos since June, prompting EU chief Ursula von
UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy is in Cairo to press local officials to release a jailed British Egyptian pro-democracy campaigner. Alaa Abdel Fattah was given a five-year sentence for "spreading false news" in a Facebook post on torture in Egypt's prisons and was arrested in September 2019. Speaking to the AFP, a British government official, on condition of anonymity, said "the UK remains committed to securing the release of Alaa Abdel Fattah and this will be a focus of the Foreign Secretary's meeting in Egypt today."
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