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Taiwan protests after Cambodia deports suspects

  Cambodia / AP Taiwan protested after Cambodia deported 25 Taiwanese internet scam suspects to rival China in the latest snub of the self-ruled island. The 25 Taiwanese and 14 Chinese were deported on a special plane dispatched by the Chinese government on Friday, said the chief of the Cambodian Interior Ministry’s Immigration Investigation Bureau, Gen. Ouk Haiseila. He said ...

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Turkey rejects legal bid to free reporters, academic

  Istanbul / AFP A Turkish court has rejected a legal bid seeking the release of two journalists and an academic being held on “terror propaganda” charges, media rights watchdog Reporters Without Borders said on Saturday. RSF Turkey representative and journalist Erol Onderoglu, journalist Ahmet Nesin and rights activist and academic Sebnem Korur Fincanci were charged on Monday in connection ...

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2 men killed in Marseille shooting

  Marseille / AFP Two men were killed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle and a 14-year-old girl seriously wounded in a shooting early Saturday in the southern French city of Marseille, Police Commissioner Laurent Nunez said. The two men, whose identities were not revealed, were shot dead in their car in a carpark in the Consolat housing estate in a ...

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