The general takes another step towards the presidency by securing Ankara’s backing. A major blow for Greece, Cyprus, the EU and Israel 

Sisi announces a defensive military operation alongside Saudi Arabia, but Parliament is playing for time. There are many doubts, but also a great deal of money at stake

The Halaib Triangle is yet another flashpoint in the Horn of Africa: between 72 and 200 miners were killed by the Egyptians whilst extracting gold from disputed territory.

The Italian judiciary has gone to great lengths to reach a verdict, bending the rules of the trial in order to bring it to a conclusion. The result has been a thoroughly anomalous trial, featuring absent defendants (it is not known whether they are alive or dead), surreal testimony and a compromised right to a fair trial.

Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait. The other fronts in the war in the Middle East, which stretches from the Strait of Hormuz to the Mediterranean, with a map