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| Film depicting horrors faced by comfort women for Japan army tops Korea box office |
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 By Jee Heun Kahng SEOUL (Reuters) - A film based on the horrors experienced by "comfort women" in Japanese military brothels during World War Two, whose doubtful commercial appeal meant it took 14 years and the contributions of 75,000 individual donors to complete, is top of the box office in South Korea. Cho Jung-rae, who directed "Spirits' Homecoming", was inspired in 2002 to make the film when he saw the drawing "Burning Women", made during a therapy session at a shelter for elderly former comfort women by Kang Il-chul, who said she was taken away by Japanese soldiers when she was 16. The term comfort women is a euphemism for girls and women forced to work in wartime Japanese military brothels.
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| Nanny who beheaded Russian girl cites revenge for Putin's Syria strikes |
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 By Maria Tsvetkova and Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) - A woman who brandished the severed head of a four-year-old girl in her care outside a Moscow metro station has said she beheaded the child to avenge Muslims killed in the Kremlin's campaign of air strikes in Syria. In video posted online on Thursday and circulated by several prominent bloggers, 38-year-old Gulchekhra Bobokulova from Muslim-majority Uzbekistan gave her first detailed explanation of an incident that state TV channels chose not to report. "I took revenge against those who spilled blood," Bobokulova told someone asking her questions off camera.
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| Kremlin: Nanny who says beheaded Russian child to avenge Syria strikes 'mentally unsound' |
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 A Kremlin spokesman said on Thursday that remarks by a woman who said she had beheaded a child in Moscow to avenge Muslims killed in the Kremlin's campaign of air strikes in Syria should be regarded as those of someone who is mentally unsound. Gulchekhra Bobokulova, of Muslim-majority Uzbekistan, was shown in video footage posted online earlier on Thursday as saying she had committed the crime because she was unhappy with President Vladimir Putin's decision to launch air strikes in the Middle East.
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| Two women killed in police operation after attack on police in Istanbul |
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| By Murad Sezer and Osman Orsal ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Two female militants were killed by police when they fired shots and threw a grenade at a Turkish police bus in Istanbul on Thursday, local media and the Istanbul governor said. Two police officers were lightly wounded in the attack, Governor Vasip Sahin told reporters in televised comments. One of the women threw a grenade and the other opened fire with what appeared to be a machine gun as the riot police bus drove towards the entrance of a police station in the Bayrampasa district of Turkey's biggest city, footage from Dogan News Agency showed. |
| Two Italian hostages probably killed in Libya attack - Italy |
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| Two Italian civilians held hostages in Libya were probably killed in fighting in the western Libyan city of Sabratha, the Italian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. Libyan security forces said they had killed seven suspected Islamic State fighters in a raid on a militant hideout in Sabratha on Wednesday, and later released photographs of two Western men who had also apparently been killed in the attack. Italy's Foreign Ministry said the men might be two of the four employees of the Italian construction company Bonatti who were kidnapped last July near a compound owned by oil and gas group Eni. |
| What to expect from China's annual meeting of parliament |
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 Around 3,000 delegates to the annual meeting of China's parliament, the National People's Congress, will meet in Beijing's Great Hall of the People on March 5 for a session that will last for around 12 days. Here is an overview of China's top legislature and this year's meeting: ISSUES: The top of the agenda this year is the new five-year plan, which will map out economic goals for the next five years. Exact details of what will be discussed or announced, including economic growth targets and the budget, are kept tightly under wraps ahead of the session.
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