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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 top North Korean envoy has delivered a letter from leader Kim Jong Un to Chinese President Xi Jinping and told him Pyongyang would take steps to rejoin stalled nuclear disarmament talks, in an apparent victory for Beijing’s efforts to coax its unruly ally into lowering tensions. North Korean Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae’s three-day visit was seen as a fence-mending mission after Pyongyang angered Beijing with recent snubs and moves to develop its nuclear program. Choe returned to North Korea late Friday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Tens of thousands of Hong Kong-born Canadian residents have returned to the SAR since 1996, according to an analysis by the South China Morning Post that helps establish the extent of an unprecedented phenomenon shaping both societies. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Sweden has long been a bastion of generous social welfare and an egalitarian political culture. So many people were shocked when scores of youths hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze during rioting in several largely immigrant areas near Stockholm this week. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Fears of a backlash against Muslims in Britain have intensified after dozens of Islamophobic incidents were reported in the wake of the grotesque murder of soldier Lee Rigby. The Tell Mama hotline for recording Islamophobic crimes detailed 38 incidents overnight on Wednesday, including attacks on three mosques. More were reported on Thursday. <!– 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 –> Britain is bracing not just for clashes with right-wing extremists but for possible copycat terror attacks after the brutal slaying of a young soldier on Wednesday. London’s Metropolitan Police said more than 1,000 officers will be sent to potential trouble spots with armed response units. Only a fraction of Britain’s police officers are armed. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> People have been getting rid of cockroaches for decades by laying bait mixed with poison. But in the late 1980s, in the test kitchen of a flat in Florida, something went very wrong. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Sri Lankan monk set himself on fire on Friday to protest the slaughter of cattle, in the country’s first attempt at self-immolation by a monk, police said. The monk doused himself with a flammable liquid and set himself ablaze near a temple in the central town of Kandy during an important Buddhist festival, police said. “Policemen near the temple doused the flames and rushed the monk to hospital,” police spokesman Buddhika Siriwardena said. “Just before setting himself alight, he shouted that his action was to protest the slaughter of cattle.” <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Thousands of Chinese Catholics gathered in Shanghai on Friday for a celebration to honour the Virgin Mary, in a show of religious fervour permitted by the Communist-ruled state. China exercises strict control over religion, requiring followers to worship in state-approved churches. In an annual tradition dating back more than a hundred years, pilgrims walked up Sheshan – or She Mountain – the site of two churches and the seminary for Shanghai’s Catholic Diocese in the city’s southwest. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Jamie Dettmer, on May 24th, 2013 Jamie Dettmer on the London killers’ well-known Islamist terror network.
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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 –> Two South Korean women forcibly drafted into Japanese military brothels during World War II have cancelled a meeting with a Japanese mayor who sparked outrage by calling them a wartime necessity. Outspoken Osaka mayor Toru Hashimoto and two former “comfort women” were to meet on Friday, but the elderly women reportedly changed their minds over fears of becoming political pawns in a long-running diplomatic dispute that has stoked tensions between Tokyo and Seoul. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By JANE PERLEZ, on May 24th, 2013 In the town where George Orwell wrote his first novel, “Burmese Days,” a group of locals are encouraging the authorities to restore his house and its unkempt garden.
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By , on May 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Police investigating the murder of a soldier hacked to death on a busy London street were looking on Friday into whether the two suspected killers, British men of Nigerian descent, were part of a wider conspiracy. The two suspects, aged 22 and 28, are under guard in hospitals after being shot and arrested by police following the murder of 25-year-old Afghan war veteran Lee Rigby on Wednesday in broad daylight. They have not yet been charged. <!– 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 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> President Barack Obama on Thursday shifted the United States away from a “boundless global war on terror,” restricting deadly drone strikes abroad and signaling that America’s long struggle against al Qaeda will one day end. In a major policy speech, Obama narrowed the scope of the US targeted-killing campaign against al Qaeda and its allies and took new steps toward closing the Guantanamo Bay military prison – controversial elements of the US counterterrorism fight that have drawn condemnation at home and abroad. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Justin Green, on May 23rd, 2013 Below is the text of Danielle Crittenden Frum's beautiful tribute to her step-father, Peter Worthington.
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Shinzo Abe arrives in Myanmar today for a three-day visit intended to boost trade between the countries, the first time a Japanese leader will have visited the country in more than 35 years. With China’s influence over the democratic Myanmese government slipping, Japan is hoping to develop economic and security ties. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A man from rural France impersonated South Korean “Gangnam Style” entertainer Psy at the Cannes Film Festival, eating, drinking and partying with the stars in Cannes for two days, press reports said yesterday. <!– 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 –>
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