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Period dramas premiere on day 10 of Cannes film festival
ReutersCANNES (Reuters) - America's immigration debate finds echos in a period drama that premiered at the Cannes film festival on Friday about a Polish woman who arrives at Ellis Island and fights to survive in 1920s New York. "The Immigrant" features French...Tags: Entertainment, Reviews, Italy, Denmark, Jeremy Renner
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Korean women scrap meeting Japanese mayor over brothel remarks
ReutersOSAKA, Japan (Reuters) - Two elderly South Korean women forced to work in Japanese war-time military brothels canceled a meeting on Friday with the mayor of the city of Osaka after he refused to withdraw remarks asserting the brothels were "necessary"...Tags: Seoul (South Korea), South Korea, Shinzo Abe, Slavery, Osaka (Japan)
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REFILE-Elderly Korean women cancel meet with Osaka mayor over war brothel remarks
Reuters(Fixes headline, no changes to story text) By Yoshiyuki Osada OSAKA, Japan, May 24 (Reuters) - Two elderly South Korean women forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels abruptly cancelled a meeting with Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto after he...Tags: Seoul (South Korea), Shinzo Abe, Osaka (Japan), Japan, Sex Crimes
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Japan's wartime brothels were wrong, says 91-year-old veteran
ReutersBy Linda Sieg and Ruairidh Villar SAGAMIHARA, Japan, May 23 (Reuters) - When Masayoshi Matsumoto joined the Japanese army in 1943 and was sent to occupied China as a medic, he thought he was taking part in a righteous war to free Asia from the yoke of...Tags: Politics, Shinzo Abe, Government, Sex Crimes, Japan
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Husband pimping wife sentenced to 50 years for killing customer
Special to the TribuneA McHenry County man who was pimping his pregnant wife was sentenced today to 50 years in prison for killing a man who had come to their home for sex in 2011. Tim Smith, 28, of rural Woodstock, had placed ads online soliciting sex with his wife, Kim...Tags: Trials, Woodstock (McHenry, Illinois), Sex Crimes, Prairie Grove, Punishment
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Danish director Refn splatters Cannes festival with violence
ReutersCANNES (Reuters) - An ultra-violent thriller set in the Bangkok underworld of brothels and fight clubs came under attack at the Cannes film festival on Wednesday for its bloodletting which Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn defended as art. "Only God...Tags: Entertainment, Italy, Reviews, China, Iran
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Bail Denied for James Wells in Kodiak Coast Guard Murders
Channel 2 NewsA federal judge denied bail for the man accused of killing two men at a Kodiak Island Coast Guard facility. Though James Wells’ defense team claimed the 61-year-old posed no risk to the community, it was unable to secure bail for the murder...Tags: Justice System, Trials, Crime, Law and Justice, Sex Crimes, Defendants
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DeCoatsworth: From worthy to worthless?
Philadelphia Daily NewsToday on PhillyDailyNews.com: View an interactive timeline looking back at the troubled career of former Police Officer Richard DeCoatsworth. IN 2008, AFTER the sentencing of a man who shot him in the face, Richard DeCoatsworth, who was then a Philly...Tags: Trials, Heroism, Prosecution, Port Richmond, Punishment
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EDITORIAL: Regional scourge -- Prostitution crackdown a must
Bluefield Daily Telegraph, W.Va.Let's get one thing straight: There is nothing positive about having prostitutes working U.S. Route 52, Mercer Street in Princeton, and other parts of Mercer County. The scourge of prostitution is devaluing our neighborhoods. It is hurting businesses in...Tags: Sex Crimes
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BRIEF: Police arrest Galivants Ferry man in connection with solicitation of a prostitute
The Sun NewsPolice charged a Galivants Ferry man with loitering in connection with prostitution Saturday night. Jimmy Wayne Ray, 55, was charged with loitering-prostitution. According to a Myrtle Beach police report, officers saw Ray in the area of Fifth Avenue...Tags: Sex Crimes
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NUAMES student shares story of sex abuse, starting nationwide education movement
Standard-Examiner, Ogden, UtahJaime Heiner remembers well the day her life felt like it was turning back around. She had arrived at her Kaysville home to find a bouquet of flowers on her doorstep. When Jaime discovered the flowers were actually for her, she felt a warm embrace...Tags: Science and Technology, Child Abuse, Sex Crimes, Abusive Behavior
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Court News: Guilty pleas set in sex trafficking
Chattanooga Times Free Press, Tenn.Guilty pleas set in sex trafficking A 31-year-old Atlanta man has agreed to plead guilty to charges he trafficked at least one woman to Tennessee for paid sex. Khari "King Black" Troutman was arrested by local police on Jan. 19 after the woman...Tags: Lawyers, Trials, White House, Labor Legislation, Business Enterprises
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