• The Turkish writer Ahmet Altan, jailed for life over charges of involvement in a failed coup, received yet another prison sentence, this time related to an article he wrote. From his cell on the outskirts of Istanbul, he shared his thoughts in an Op-Ed: “I will never see the world again.” [The New York Times]

• Most of the roughly 90 people who drowned when a boat capsized off Libya’s coast in February were Pakistani migrants. Our reporter visited a tiny Punjabi village that was rocked by the distant tragedy. [The New York Times]

• Germany’s ministries of foreign affairs and defense were said to have been infiltrated by the same Russian hacking group that breached Democratic Party servers in the U.S. [Reuters]

• The publication of a last, unfinished article by the murdered Slovak journalist Jan Kuciak prompted the resignation of high-ranking government officials. [The New York Times]

• A bill in Iceland that could make it a crime to circumcise infant boys for nonmedical reasons is drawing support from doctors, and criticism from religious leaders. [The New York Times]

• A British tabloid cited a questionable “estimate” that U.N. personnel had sexually abused 60,000 people. It is a cautionary example of how flawed statistics can be. [The New York Times]