At checkpoints, white-uniformed police officers randomly stop people, demanding to see their identity documents, even their phones. At street corners around downtown Cairo, police in riot gear sit in trucks, waiting. The presence of plain-clothes security agents has grown.
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Two Jewish cousins have had an emotional reunion 75 years after they fled Romania, each believing the other had been killed in the Holocaust.
US President Donald Trump used a closed-door gathering with US diplomats in New York to attack Democratic rival Joe Biden and disparage a whistle-blower complaint over his controversial phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy now at the heart of an impeachment inquiry.
Boris Johnson has been referred to the police complaints body to assess whether he should face a criminal investigation over his links with American businesswoman Jennifer Arcuri.
A Pakistani court has found the brother of a social media model guilty of her murder, sentencing him to life in jail.
Hong Kong is braced for a weekend of unrest with pro-democracy protests likely to mount in the China-ruled territory ahead of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic on Tuesday.
