Libyan prison break — More than a thousand inmates escaped a prison Saturday in Libya as protesters stormed political party offices across the country, signs of the simmering unrest gripping a nation overrun by militias and awash in weaponry. It wasn’t immediately clear if the jailbreak at al-Kweifiya prison came as part of the demonstrations. Protesters had massed across Libya over the killing of an activist critical of the country’s Muslim Brotherhood group. Those who escaped either face or were convicted of serious charges, a prison official said.

Fatal bus crash — A bus carrying teenagers returning to Indiana from a church camp in Michigan crashed Saturday afternoon just minutes from home, killing three people, including two adults, and sending 26 others to hospitals, officials said. The bus came speeding off of Interstate 465 in northern Indianapolis, about a mile from the Colonial Hills Baptist Church that passengers attended, struck a retaining wall as it rounded a curve and overturned.

Abortion fight — A handful of Republican Party leaders are talking discreetly about how to advance a bill in the Senate to ban abortion at 20 weeks after fertilization. Plans under discussion would involve bringing the measure up for a vote sometime after Congress returns from its August recess. It is almost certain to be defeated, but backers are eager to bring to the floor of the Senate the same impassioned debate over abortion that has been taking place in state legislatures.

Obama on pipeline — President Barack Obama said in an interview that he would evaluate construction of the Keystone XL pipeline on the basis of whether it would significantly contribute carbon to the atmosphere. But he mocked Republicans’ arguments that the approval of the pipeline, which would carry oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast, would create many jobs in the United States. The president also disputed the argument that the pipeline would help lower retail gasoline prices. He said most of the oil would be exported.

Prisoner release — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel announced Saturday that he had agreed to release 104 Palestinian prisoners, most of whom have served 20 years or more for attacks on Israelis, to pave the way for a resumption of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in Washington in the coming days. Netanyahu took the unusual measure of issuing what he called “an open letter to the citizens of Israel” to explain the contentious move, which many Israelis oppose, ahead of a Cabinet vote today.

North Korea — Columns of rocket tubes, goose-stepping paratroopers and possible intercontinental ballistic missiles paraded through the center of the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, on Saturday, as North Korea observed the 60th anniversary of the end of the Korean War by brandishing its military hardware to the outside world.

Chinese solar panels — The European Union’s trade chief said Saturday that a deal had been reached with China to settle a dispute over exports of low-cost solar panels that had threatened to set off a wider trade war between two of the world’s largest economies. The settlement essentially involves setting a fairly high minimum price for sales of Chinese-made solar panels in the EU to try to prevent them from undercutting European producers.

Christianity in Russia — Russian President Vladimir Putin attended religious ceremonies in the Ukrainian capital Saturday to mark the 1,025th anniversary of events that brought Christianity to Russia and Ukraine, in the latest sign of the deepening ties and common agenda of the Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church. Putin’s visit also appeared intended in part to highlight the ties that unite the two countries even as Ukraine seeks to formalize its political and economic ties with the European Union.