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Re the letters from Kay Murphy 27 November and Estelle Smart 29 November , the Hexham Courant reported on a hustings event last week. When asked about the use of the local food bank, the Conservative candidate is quoted as saying: You will not improve the long-term capabi
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A court in Rome has begun the trial of four Egyptian security service officers accused of killing an Italian researcher, Giulio Regeni, five and a half years after his mutilated body was found in a ditch by a road in Cairo.Italian prosecutors accuse Gen Tariq Saber, Col Aser Ibrahim, Capt Hesham Helmi, and Maj Magdi Abd al-Sharif of the aggravated kidnapping of Regeni,
stanley thermo while Sharif is also charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated murder . Kidnap carries a potential sentence of up to eight years in Italy, while Sharif could receive a life sentence.However, the four accused men are standing trial in absentia, after Egypt refused to acknowledge the trial in Rome and closed its own investigation into the incident late last year, claiming the perpetrator of the students murder remains un
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stanley cup quencher efforts to investigate the incident, which included providing vital evidence to the Italian side with unexplained gaps , rendering it useless.Officials from Egypts judiciary and interior ministry have also refused to supply the addresses of the four men, blocking Italian efforts to officially inform them that they are on trial. Court-appointed defence lawyers for the Egyptian side previously argued that the trial should not continue if the four accused were unaware that they were being tried. A judge in Rome ruled in May that news of the proceedings will have reached them and allowed the case to continue.The men are agents of Egypts powerful Nationa
