Egypt Postpones Verdict for Al Jazeera Journalists

An Egyptian court postponed a session Thursday where it was due to announce a verdict in the retrial of three Al Jazeera journalists charged with supporting the banned Muslim Brotherhood. Al Jazeera said it is "extremely angry" that the Cairo court postponed the verdict for Canadian national Mohamed Fahmy, Egyptian Baher Mohamed and Australian Peter Greste. A new session is expected to take place next week. The network has maintained that the journalists were doing...

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