Egypt postpones al-Jazeera retrial verdict to August 29

1Troy Lulashnyk (R), Canadian Ambassador to Egypt, sits with other diplomats at a court in Cairo, Egypt.
2An Egyptian court on Sunday postponed for the second time the verdict in the retrial of Al Jazeera television journalists who have been charged with aiding a terrorist organisation, a reference to the banned Muslim Brotherhood, to August 29.
3An Egyptian court on Sunday postponed delivering its verdict in the retrial of three al-Jazeera journalists, a decision a defence lawyer said was to avoid bad publicity during a visit by US Secretary of State John Kerry and other dignitaries.
4It was the second time the verdict in the internationally sensitive case has been postponed, this time to August 29.
5The journalists deny the charges and Egypt's high court ordered a retrial in January.
6Amal Clooney, one of Mr Fahmy's lawyers, said the adjournment appeared aimed to avoid clashing with Mr Kerry's visit to Cairo on Sunday as well as a lavish inauguration planned on Thursday for a second Suez Canal.
7"The verdict may be coming later; but the world will still be watching," Mrs Clooney said in a statement.
8Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri said during a news conference with Mr Kerry that no journalists in Egypt were in jail over their reporting.