CAMBODIA: Forty-three Cambodians arrived in the capital Phnom Penh yesterday after being deported from the US under a law allowing repatriation of immigrants who have committed crimes and not become US citizens.

The group is the largest sent to Cambodia under a 2002 bilateral agreement that has seen 500 other Cambodians repatriated already.

The programme is controversial because it breaks up families and some “returnees” have never lived in Cambodia, having fled to Thailand as refugees in the 1970s from the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime.

GREECE: Ride-hailing company Uber will suspend some private driver services on Monday after parliament approved new legislation placing stricter operating restrictions on the company.

The company sent an email to customers saying it would suspend its UberX service "until appropriate solutions are worked out” but would continue operating its conventional taxi service.

Taxi drivers went on strike last month to press the government to make the legal changes, arguing that using private drivers was creating unfair competition at the expense of licensed drivers.

RUSSIA: Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov welcomed his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi to Moscow yesterday, hailing their bilateral co-operation as a key stabilising factor in the world.

He said that relations between the two nations have a "truly strategic character," exemplifying a "well-balanced and responsible approach to international affairs."

Mr Wang emphasised that their joint efforts help ensure stability through their "strategic partnership" and shared opposition to a US-dominated "unipolar" world.

TURKEY: Four staff members were shot dead yesterday at the Osmangazi University, in the city of Eskisehir, 140 miles west of Ankara.

University president Professor Hasan Gonen said that a research assistant identified as Volkan D had killed a deputy dean, a secretary and two teaching staff.

The gunman turned himself in to police after the attack, but no motive was immediately revealed.