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Japan's foreign minister arrived in South Korea for fence-mending talks Saturday, as the issue of sexual slavery in Japan's World War II military brothels threatened to strain ties.
The international standoff over North Korea's nuclear program was also expected to be high on the agenda for the talks between Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso and his South Korean counterpart, Song Min-s...
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Ten years later, the family moved back to Arzignano, where Flora's parents opened yet another caffè, this one near a church. Flora attended an istituto through her high school and college years, graduating with a degree in economia domestica at the end of World War II, when she was 21.
"We were very lucky in Arzignano," she says. "We didn't haffa no bombs. The only thing that was m...
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It's becoming painfully obvious that for U.S. Attorney Carol Lam, whose office brought down U.S. Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, it wasn't just her record of prosecutions that led to her ouster but more whom she was prosecuting, and from which political party. 46 Comment(s)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Ian Pitzman and his crew had transferred their crab harvest to a floating processing ship just...
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SOMERSET — Reacting to a daily barrage of talk-show allegations that the town Highway Department has been — and may still be — a bastion of pornography and sexual assault, two recent female employees said yesterday they have seen no evidence of any sexual material at the department and insisted that they have been treated with nothing but respect by workers there.
And ma...
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SEOUL, March 30 (Bernama) -- South Korean Foreign Minister Song Min-soon and his Japanese counterpart Taro Aso will hold talks this weekend on North Korea's nuclear ambitions, sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II and other issues of mutual concern, the Foreign Ministry said Friday.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported that the cabinet-level meeting, the first...
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Remove all clippings Remove all read clippings By William Pesek Bloomberg News Published: March 28, 2007 E-Mail Article Listen to Article Printer-Friendly 3-Column Format Translate Share Article Add to Clippings Text Size
These should be sweet days indeed for officials in Tokyo. A case in point: In 2006, Japan had its first gain in nationwide property prices in 16 years. Last week, that a...
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â– Democracy in Finland: The Intopii computer firm of Helsinki announced in February that it has installed software to assist voters, who, studies suggest, tend to select candidates who look like themselves. When a voter uploads his or her photo, the Web site will use facial-recognition software to find those among the 800 candidates in March parliamentary elections who most resemble that vote...
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Legalising prostitution would halve the rampant spread of sexual diseases and save the NHS £330 million every year, according to a medical expert.
And the regular testing of sex workers could also halt a dramatic increase in HIV cases in the UK which have rocketed 50-fold in areas where prostitutes from HIV endemic countries are offering unprotected sex for as little as £5.
Chris Sp...
