Muslim Brotherhood leader arrested

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s interior ministry says authorities have arrested a senior leader and financier of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, the latest in the country’s security crackdown on Islamists.

Friday’s statement says businessman Hassan Malik was arrested Thursday in his Cairo home for “exacerbating the instability of the dollar exchange rate.”

The Brotherhood was banned after the 2013 military overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, who hailed from the group. Malik was one of the few prominent Brotherhood members to remain in Cairo and out of prison.

The arrest comes after Egypt’s central bank weakened the pound twice in recent days, falling 20 piasters to 7.93 pounds per dollar at auction.

Talks on UN climate deal heat up over bill

BONN, Germany (AP) — The trillion-dollar question of who should pay for global warming is coming to a head in talks on an international climate pact, as developing countries worry they won’t get enough money to tackle the problem.

With just five weeks left before a U.N. climate summit in Paris, developing countries closed ranks at weeklong talks ending Friday in Bonn, calling on wealthy nations to make firm financial commitments to help them fight and adapt to climate change.