London / AFP WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange starts his fifth year camped out in the Ecuadoran embassy in London on Sunday, an occasion his supporters intend to mark with events celebrating whistleblowers. Supporters said they were planning to stage songs, speeches and readings in several European cities. Assange, 44, is wanted for questioning over a 2010 rape allegation in ...

  BEIJING / AP Residents in a village in southern China where police have been deployed took to the streets on Sunday to protest the detention of the village’s democratically elected leader and historic seizures of land. The protests in Wukan come nearly five years after an uprising there made the fishing village in Guangdong province, next to Hong Kong, an ...

  Beirut / AFP Eight displaced Syrians, including four children, were killed by Turkish border guards while trying to flee their war-torn country on Sunday morning, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The National Coalition umbrella opposition group—based in Istanbul and backed by Turkey—gave a higher toll of 11 killed and condemned the “terrible tragedy.” Turkey has repeatedly denied ...