Kazakhstan security forces kill dozens of protesters as Russia sends in troops

Russian paratroopers have flown into Kazakhstan as part of a Kremlin-led ex-Soviet military alliance to help quash an uprising by armed protesters who have torched Kazakh government buildings and chased the police off the streets. Overnight, Kazakh special forces were also deployed into central Almaty, the leafy crucible of middle-class life in Kazakhstan, fighting gun battles with the protesters. Read the full story here: