CAIRO: An Egyptian court ordered the release of two jailed Al-Jazeera journalists on Thursday pending retrial, after they spent more than 400 days in prison in a case that sparked worldwide outrage.

Mohamed Fahmy, who is Canadian and whose family hoped he would be deported, must pay 250,000 Egyptian pounds ($33,000) bail. His colleague, Egyptian Baher Mohamed, was freed without bail.

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