Via the Guardian: The Seoul central district court on Friday said Japan was liable to compensate 12 women who were forced to work as so-called “comfort women”, in a ruling that is expected to inflict further damage on the countries’ already fraught ties.Some historians say that as many as 200,000 women – mostly Koreans, but
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Auschwitz Guards
The faces that oversaw a genocide, 1940-1945.
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Activists from the Revolutionary Socialists, 6 April Youth, Ad-Dustour Party, and several other groups as well as independent figures, gathered today at Cairo’s Press Syndicate to launch BDS Egypt.
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#RIP Khaled Saleh
Egyptian actor Khaled Saleh has passed away today after undergoing open heart surgery in Aswan. He was 50.
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Muhammad Mahmoud Street
Muhammad Mahmoud Street full of protesters, marking Martyr Mina Daniel’s birthday.
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Marching in solidarity with the #MOD detainees
Thousands marched today on the parliament, denouncing the army’s crackdown on the Abbassiya protesters and calling for the release of the detainees. You can watch some more pix from the march on this Flickr set.
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