BAGHDAD (AP) – Iraqi military forces on Monday retook a strategic government complex in the city of Ramadi from Islamic State militants who have occupied the city since May. Military spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool initially announced that Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, had been “fully liberated.” But Gen. …
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South Korea, Japan reach landmark deal on WWII sex slaves
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – An apology from Japan’s prime minister and a pledge of more than $8 million sealed a breakthrough deal Monday in a decades-long impasse with South Korea over Korean women forced into Japanese military-run brothels during World War II. The accord, which aims to resolve the …
Read More »Japan, wary of outsiders, keeps doors closed to refugees
TOKYO (AP) – For Mohammed, the perils of staying in Damascus crystalized when a sniper’s bullet whizzed past his head while he and his cousins were on his rooftop, watching the Syrian air force bomb rebel forces. The same roof where Mohammed and his lifelong friend Jamal used to sit …
Read More »Unearthing of Rio slave port sparks debate over black space
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – The first few times American landscape architect Sara Zewde visited Rio de Janeiro’s Valongo Wharf, she struggled to comprehend the recently unearthed remnants of what was once among the biggest slave ports in the world. Excavated starting in 2011, the site is largely inscrutable, even …
Read More »‘Star Wars’ makers have high hopes for China success
SHANGHAI (AP) – The latest Star Wars movie broke the $1 billion mark before fans in China could see it, but producers anticipate “The Force Awakens” will play “very very well” in the world’s second-biggest film market. The film opens in China on Jan. 9. Director J.J. Abrams watched the …
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