Khaled Ali withdraws from Egyptian presidential race

Lawyer ends challenge to Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, telling supporters ‘opportunity for hope has gone’The Egyptian presidential hopeful and rights lawyer Khaled Ali has quit the race, becoming the latest would-be candidate who either has bowed out or been forced to abandon a challenge to the president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, before the March election.Ali, a prominent socialist, had entered the race as a symbol of Egypt’s leftist revolutionary politics, but on Wednesday he told a press