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| S.Korea, Japan agree to irreversibly end "comfort women" row | |  By Jack Kim and Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea and Japan reached a landmark agreement on Monday to resolve the issue of "comfort women", as those who were forced to work in Japan's wartime brothels were euphemistically known, which has long plagued ties between the neighbours. The foreign ministers of the two countries said after a meeting in Seoul that the "comfort women" issue would be "finally and irreversibly resolved" if all conditions were met. South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged to take the opportunity to boost bilateral ties soon after the agreement by the foreign ministers.
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| About 20 killed in mosque bombing in northern Nigerian city, official says | | | MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - About 20 people were killed in a bomb blast in a mosque in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Monday, an official at state emergency agency NEMA said. Some 91 people were wounded, NEMA's Mohammed Kanar said. (Reporting by Lanre Ola; Writing by Ulf Laessing; Editing by Louise Ireland) |
| For Japan and S.Korea, "comfort women" bronze may test resolve | |  By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - One test of the commitment by Japan and South Korea to resolve the "comfort women" issue may be the fate of a statue in front of Tokyo's embassy in Seoul. The bronze of a barefoot teenage girl in a traditional hanbok dress, sitting on a chair with fists clenched on her lap and an empty chair beside her, has become a symbol of "comfort women", as those who were forced to work at Japan's wartime military brothels are euphemistically known. For many Japanese officials, the presence of the 1.5 metre statue in front of the embassy is a symbol of South Korea's unwillingness to lay the issue to rest as well as an affront to its national dignity that should not be permitted by Seoul.
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| China police detain 12 in connection with landslide disaster | |  Police in China have detained 12 people in connection with a deadly landslide last week, including at least one executive from a company that ran a dump for construction waste that swept through an industrial park, state media said on Monday. The government has blamed breaches of construction safety rules for the disaster in the southern city of Shenzhen on Dec. 20, when the dump overflowed and engulfed 33 buildings, and has begun an investigation. In a brief report, the Xinhua news agency said police had taken "coercive measures" against 12 people, including "responsible people" from Shenzhen Yixianglong Investment Development, which ran the dump, using an expression which generally refers to detention.
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| Gunmen kill woman anti-polio volunteer in Afghanistan | | | Two gunmen on a motorbike shot and killed a female polio vaccination campaigner in Afghanistan on Monday and seriously wounded her granddaughter, officials said. The pair, a woman and her teenaged granddaughter, were eradication-campaign volunteers, going house to house in the southern city of Kandahar when they were shot, said senior provincial health official Abdul Qayum Pukhla. "Today was the last day of campaign and as the workers were leaving a house, the gunmen opened fire on them and fled," Pukhla told Reuters. |
| S.Korea, Japan agree to 'irreversibly' resolve comfort women issue | |  By Jack Kim and Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea and Japan reached a landmark agreement on Monday to resolve the issue of "comfort women", as those who were forced to work in Japan's wartime brothels were euphemistically known, which has long plagued ties between the neighbours. The foreign ministers of the two countries said after a meeting in Seoul that the "comfort women" issue would be "finally and irreversibly resolved" if all conditions were met. The agreement will be welcomed by the United States, which has been keen for improved relations between its two major Asian allies in the face of an increasingly assertive China and an unpredictable North Korea.
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| Dressing down: Myanmar activist jailed for 'ridiculing' army and uniform | | | By Aung Hla Tun YANGON (Reuters) - A Myanmar court jailed a woman for six months on Monday for a Facebook post "ridiculing" the country's army chief and the colour of a new uniform, the latest in an escalating crackdown on free speech. Chaw Sandi Tun, a member of Aung San Suu Kyi's election-winning National League for Democracy (NLD) party, was found guilty by the Ma-ubin Township Court in Ayeyawady Region, lawyer Robert San Aung told Reuters. Chaw Sandi Tun's post compared the light green new uniform for army officers with that of a "longyi", a traditional Myanmar skirt worn by Suu Kyi. |
| Bangladesh security unit kills two militants in raid on hideout | | | A Bangladesh anti-terrorist force killed two members of a banned Islamist group on Monday, a force spokesman said, the latest clash in a intensified a hunt for militants behind a spate of violence. Muslim-majority Bangladesh faces a growing threat of militant violence with a string of incidents this year including the killing of several liberal activists and attacks on minority Shi'ite Muslims, Christian priest and Hindu temples. Members of the anti-terrorist unit raided an abandoned house on the outskirts of Dhaka in the early hours and killed two members of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen militant group hiding there after they threw bombs, the force spokesman said. |
| Former top Chinese official commits suicide after landslide disaster | | | The government has not blamed anyone for the disaster in the southern city of Shenzhen on Dec. 20, when the dump overflowed and engulfed 33 buildings in an industrial park, but on Saturday it blamed breaches of construction safety rules. The former director of the Guangming New District Urban Management Bureau, a man surnamed Xu, had committed suicide, district police said in a microblog post, adding that police had received a report that a person had fallen from a building late on Sunday. It is unclear when Xu stepped down as director of the Guangming New District Urban Management Bureau but the district government reported on its web site that another person has been appointed head of the agency in July. |
| Exclusive: Seized documents reveal Islamic State's Department of "War Spoils" | |  By Jonathan Landay, Warren Strobel and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Islamic State has set up departments to handle "war spoils," including slaves, and the exploitation of natural resources such as oil, creating the trappings of government that enable it to manage large swaths of Syria and Iraq and other areas. The hierarchical bureaucracy, including petty rivalries between officials, and legal codes in the form of religious fatwas are detailed in a cache of documents seized by U.S. Special Operations Forces in a May raid in Syria that killed top IS financial official Abu Sayyaf. The level of bureaucratization, organization, the diwans, the committees," Brett McGurk, President Barack Obama's special envoy for the anti-IS coalition, told Reuters.
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