George Soros says Europe is facing an existential crisis that goes far beyond Brexit and must reinvent itself to generate the buy-in from states and citizens to hold it together.

Every day at 5:30am, an alarm clock awakens Ahmed Maher from his mattress below a stairwell at his neighbourhood police station in Cairo.

A cross-party delegation of Irish politicians is to personally ask Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to free jailed Irishman Ibrahim Halawa.

Attempts to build millions of euro worth of trade deals between Ireland and Egypt could be blocked unless the Ibrahim Halawa case is “satisfactorily” resolved.

Supporters of Ibrahim Halawa, the young Irishman detained in an Egyptian prison for more than three years, have received mixed messages from the Irish Government about efforts to free him, after his trial was postponed for the 16th time.

The right of people to choose their own governments is running into trouble. The unrest sweeping many nations shows democracy being overwhelmed by despotism and despair, writes Nicholas Wapshott

Some 38 Muslim Brotherhood supporters died in disputed circumstances at a prison yesterday, as the leader of Egypt’s powerful army warned he would not tolerate violence, urging Islamists to change course.