Egypt's Mubarak to be retried over 2011 killing of protesters

Cairo: Egypt's highest appeals court has ordered the retrial of ousted President Hosni Mubarak on charges that he failed to stop the killing of hundreds of protesters during the 2011 uprising that ended his 29-year rule.

Thursday's ruling set Nov. 5 as the date for the start of the new trial.

Mubarak, who is 86 and in failing health, has since his arrest in April 2011 been held in detention in a number of hospitals. He now resides at a Nile-side military hospital in a leafy suburb just south of Cairo.