Al-Qaeda chief's brother acquitted on terror charges

An Egyptian court has acquitted the younger brother of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri of terror charges. A report on the IBTimes site notes that Mohamed al-Zawahiri was acquitted of charges of forming an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist cell in Egypt. The South Cairo Court that acquitted Zawahiri sentenced 10 other defendants to death and 20 others to life in prison. Zawahiri was arrested in 2013, and faced charges of organising terrorist attacks and forming a terrorist cell, after the Egyptian army ousted Egypt's democratically elected President Mohammed Morsi, who was a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.