French journalist stabbed to death in Kazakhstan

A French journalist has been stabbed to death while working in Kazakhstan. Grégoire de Bourgues, 24, was in the country to write an advertising feature for the US magazine Foreign Affairs on behalf of an Athens-based media firm. De Bourgues' was with his Kazakh interpreter at his apartment in Almaty when three gunmen broke in. The two were tied up while the attackers took various items. Then they took the journalist into another room and stabbed him to death. The interpreter escaped and called the police. (Via Reporters sans frontières - EUROPE)