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‘Japan forced
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TOKYO: A historian said Monday he has uncovered documents from
post-World War II trials of Japanese war criminals that prove the
military directly forced Asian women into sexual slavery.
The findings will likely cause a
stir as conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sparked controversy
last month when he said there was no proof the imperial army
directly coerced so-called comfort women.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Senior Talibans
were killed
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KABUL: NATO-led troops said
Monday they had killed several key Taliban leaders in a series of
airstrikes and raids targeting militants in southern Afghanistan
during the past week.
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UN may send
intervention force to stem crisis in Darfur region
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UNITED NATIONS: UN chief Ban Ki-moon
on Monday opens high-level talks here with the African Union on
Darfur that could clear the way for deploying a sizable UN force in
the strife-torn Sudanese region.
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Suspect accused of
bomb plot to stand trial in Miami
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MIAMI: US terror suspect Jose
Padilla, once accused of plotting to detonate a radioactive bomb in
the United States, is set for trial in Miami, where a federal court
will start selecting a jury on Monday.
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INBRIEF
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KABUL: A suicide bomber
blew himself up at a police training ground in northern Afghanistan
Monday, killing nine policemen and wounding 25 others, an interior
ministry spokesman said.
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