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By , on May 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Japanese politician who drew fire for calling “comfort women” a wartime necessity has been forced to apologise for suggesting US soldiers in Okinawa visit brothels to vent their violent frustrations. Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto had suggested that US servicemen in the southern prefecture of Okinawa, where relations are frequently tested by violent crimes including rapes and assaults, patronise legal sex businesses there. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 25th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A telephone call on Friday has again delayed a decision in a murder trial in coastal China, which the nation’s highest court called flawed, and has exposed the worrying consequences of a hasty high-profile crime investigation. In the summer of 2008, Nian Bin, then 30, worked as a food stall owner in Woqian village in Pingtan county, an island in Fujian province. On August 1, he was arrested for the murder of two children, who had died after eating rice porridge containing rat poison only six days earlier. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By FERNANDA SANTOS, on May 25th, 2013 The ruling handed down by a federal judge is peppered with stinging criticism of the policies and practices of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, saying the sheriff relied on racial profiling and illegal detentions.
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A British court has ruled that a tweet by a parliamentarian’s wife that pointed her 56,000 followers to online traffic wrongly naming a retired politician as a paedophile was defamatory, even though it did not spell out the allegation. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Proposals to vet future US drone strikes risk creating “kill courts”, according to human rights campaigners. They say President Barack Obama’s promise of new legal oversight does not go far enough to end what they regard as extrajudicial executions. The president has asked Congress to consider establishing a special court or oversight board to authorise lethal action outside war zones under a new counterterrorism doctrine he says will end the “boundless war on terror”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> There is no need to reserve open space for a military berth on the new Central waterfront – bollards are all that is needed, counsel for a harbour-protection group says. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A businessman, who was snatched from a New York street in broad daylight, was bound and burned with acid while being held captive for a month in a city warehouse for a US$3 million ransom his family in Ecuador did not have, US authorities said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Beijing’s rejection of international arbitration to resolve disputes over its claim to most of the South China Sea makes it look like a “bully” in the world community, a leading US expert on Chinese law said this week. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> OSAKA, Japan (AP) — Two Korean former sex slaves demanded the resignation of an outspoken Japanese mayor and canceled a meeting with him Friday for justifying Japan’s wartime practice of forcing tens of thousands of Asian women into prostitution for its military. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Global rights group Amnesty International urged Malaysia on Friday to end its “post-election crackdown” which has seen four critics arrested in the aftermath of the government’s worst electoral result. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Venezuela’s prosecutor’s office said on Thursday it would open an investigation into in a recording the opposition says features a top government ally accusing the deputy head of the ruling Socialist Party of corruption and conspiring against the new president. Opposition deputies on Monday broadcast the recording of a conversation they said was between powerful state television commentator Mario Silva and a Cuban intelligence agent and later requested an investigation of it. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived in Switzerland on Thursday for talks set to focus on a landmark free trade deal with the Alpine country, which he has dubbed a touchstone for Beijing’s growing ties with foreign nations. Li, who is on the first stop of his debut visit to Europe since taking over in a once-in-a-decade power transfer in Beijing, flew in to Zurich late on Thursday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> President Barack Obama outlined plans to limit the use of US drone strikes against extremists abroad and took steps aimed at breaking a deadlock on closing the Guantanamo Bay military prison. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> WASHINGTON (AP) — Obama: Journalists should not face legal risks for doing their jobs. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China warned blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng on Thursday to mind his language ahead of his trip next month to political rival Taiwan, on a visit which could infuriate Beijing if, as expected, Chen uses it to criticise Chinese rights abuses. China has been largely silent on the issue of Chen since he fled from house arrest and took refuge in the US embassy in Beijing last year, straining Sino-US relations, before he was allowed to leave for New York for study. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Philippines vowed on Thursday to “defend what is ours” as part of a stand-off over a Chinese warship circling a South China Sea reef which is occupied by Filipino marines. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Thai authorities have arrested an Italian wanted over alleged links to a human trafficking ring which swindled around US$10 million from European taxpayers and banks. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Barack Obama will renew his failed vow to close Guantanamo Bay and argue his drone war is legal and just on Thursday, in a speech reframing US anti-terror policy that will shape his presidential legacy. Obama faces pressure to honour promises of transparency and to confront an evolved threat of new al-Qaeda-inspired franchises and homegrown radicals, like those behind the Boston bombings. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hong Kong health officials on Thursday warned against drinking a batch of slim milk imported from Australia after the amount of bacteria found in a sample vastly exceeded the legal limit. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A former Wan Chai divisional commander was convicted on one count of misconduct in public office on Thursday for taking discounts from a restaurant. Titus Wong Koon-ho, 51, was found guilty of receiving gifts and discounts worth HK$5,500 from Chan Teen Bistro in exchange for turning a blind eye to liquor licence violations in 2011. Wong later approved its licence application, despite knowing that the Causeway Bay restaurant had illegally served alcohol, the Eastern Court heard. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Japan mayor to apologise to US over brothels advice
<!– google_ad_section_start –> A Japanese politician who drew fire for calling “comfort women” a wartime necessity has been forced to apologise for suggesting US soldiers in Okinawa visit brothels to vent their violent frustrations. Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto had suggested that US servicemen in the southern prefecture of Okinawa, where relations are frequently tested by violent crimes including rapes and assaults, patronise legal sex businesses there. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Japan mayor to apologise to US over brothels advice
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