CAIRO — Egyptian authorities have exhausted all legal grounds to keep deposed President Hosni Mubarak in detention after an appeals court today ordered his retrial in a corruption case, a judicial official said.

The corruption case was the only one still keeping Mubarak behind bars. The autocratic former president has already been cleared over the killings of protesters during Egypt's 2011 uprising that toppled him.

The ruling today by the Appeals Court overturned an earlier verdict, which had sentenced Mubarak to three years' imprisonment and his two sons, Alaa and Gamal, to four years in prison each while four other defendants in the case were acquitted. Mubarak's lawyers had appealed that verdict.

WASHINGTON — Under fire for seemingly snubbing one of its closest allies, the White House conceded Monday it should have sent a high-ranking U.S. official to Paris over the weekend to demonstrate U.S. support in the wake of last week's terrorist attacks.White House press secretary Josh Earnest admitted the mistake, siding with critics who assailed President Barack Obama for not attending the rally or sending a high ranking representative such as Vice President Joe Biden in his stead.“It's fair to say that we should have sent someone with a higher profile to be there,” Earnest said.