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| Jailed Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste leaves Egypt for Australia |
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 Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste left Egypt for his native Australia on Sunday after serving 400 days in a Cairo prison on charges that included aiding a terrorist group, security officials said. There was no immediate word on the fate of his two Al Jazeera colleagues - Canadian-Egyptian Mohamed Fahmy and Egyptian national Baher Mohamed - who were also jailed in the case that provoked an international outcry. The three were sentenced to seven to 10 years on charges including spreading lies to help a "terrorist organisation" - a reference to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. Greste's release came as Egypt is reeling from one of the bloodiest attacks in years.
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| Obama proposes 14 percent tax on U.S. companies' untaxed foreign earnings |
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 By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's fiscal 2016 budget would impose a one-time 14 percent tax on some $2 trillion of accumulated U.S. corporate profits earned abroad and set up a 19 percent tax on future foreign earnings, a White House official said on Sunday. Obama's fiscal 2016 budget, which is set to be released on Monday, is as much a political document as a fiscal roadmap. The White House has long been critical of practices by U.S. companies that it views as avoiding tax responsibilities at home. The two proposals are part of a broader tax reform package that the Obama administration hopes will re-focus tax advantages toward middle-class Americans.
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| Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste leaves Egypt jail for Australia - security officials |
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 CAIRO (Reuters) - Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste left Egypt for his native Australia on Sunday after serving 400 days in an Egyptian prison on charges that included aiding a terrorist group, four security officials said. There was no immediate word on the fate of his two Al Jazeera colleagues -- Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed -- who were also jailed in the case that provoked an international outcry. (Writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
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| Boko Haram attacks northeast Nigeria's main city - witnesses |
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| By Lanre Ola MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Boko Haram insurgents attacked the outskirts of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria on Sunday, their second assault in a week on a city they hope to make the capital of a breakaway Islamist state. At least eight people were killed as the insurgents fought gunbattles with government soldiers, witnesses and a hospital source said. Everybody is panicking and trying to flee the area," said Idris Abubakar, a resident of Polo on the southwestern outskirts of the city. In a separate incident in the town of Potiskum, 230 km (140 miles) west of Maiduguri, a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the house of a federal legislator, killing 10 people, two security sources told Reuters. |
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