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| Egyptian court sentences 3 Al Jazeera journalists to prison |
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 By Ahmed Aboulenein CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court sentenced three Al Jazeera TV journalists to three years in prison on Saturday for operating without a press license and broadcasting material harmful to Egypt, a case that has stirred an international outcry. The verdict in a retrial was issued against Mohamed Fahmy, a naturalised Canadian who has given up his Egyptian citizenship, Baher Mohamed, an Egyptian, and Peter Greste, an Australian who was deported in February. Rights advocates say their arrest was part of a crackdown on free speech waged since the army overthrew President Mohamed Mursi, a senior Muslim Brotherhood figure, in July 2013 following mass unrest over his rule.
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| Hungary detains four suspects in migrant deaths |
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 The suspects, handcuffed, led on a leather leash and each carrying a bottle of water, were escorted by special police forces to the court house in the central Hungarian town of Kecskemet, where the truck began its final journey. "The truck left from Kecskemet, picked up the migrants near the southern border (with Serbia), then ferried them through Hungary to Austria," prosecution spokesman Gabor Schmidt told journalists. The four suspects are not being charged with manslaughter in Hungary because they will face that charge in Austria, he said.
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| Deported Al-Jazeera journalist: Verdict a blow for Egyptian press freedom |
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 By Christopher McCall SYDNEY (Reuters) - A decision by an Egyptian court to sentence three Al Jazeera TV journalists to three years in prison was politically motivated and aimed at intimidating the press, one of the three, Australian journalist Peter Greste, said on Saturday. Greste, 49, was deported from Egypt in February and convicted in absentia by the Cairo court on Saturday for operating without a press license and broadcasting material harmful to Egypt.
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| Thai police arrest foreign man over Bangkok bombing |
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 By Aukkarapon Niyomyat and Martin Petty BANGKOK (Reuters) - Police hunting for the perpetrators of Thailand's deadliest bombing arrested a foreign man on Saturday they said fitted the description of a suspect seen leaving a rucksack at the site of the Bangkok blast nearly two weeks ago. Police raided an apartment in a northern suburb of the capital on Saturday afternoon and discovered possible bomb-making materials that could have been used in the Aug. 17 attack in Bangkok's bustling commercial heart. Police would not confirm where the suspect was from but said he was a foreign national and would be charged initially with possession of illegal explosive materials and held at a military facility.
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| Libya arrests three suspected smugglers over migrant boat disaster |
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 Three people have been arrested in Libya on suspicion of involvement in launching a boat packed with migrants that sank off the country's Mediterranean coast, killing up to 200 people, a security official said on Saturday. Oil-producing Libya has turned into a major transit route for migrants fleeing conflict and poverty to make it to Europe. Three Libyan smugglers involved in launching the ill-fated boat and other vessels to bring migrants to Italy have been arrested, said a security official, asking not to be named.
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