Thursday, March 2, 2017

Japan emperor meets Vietnam kin of Tokyo's WWII soldiers

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Japan emperor meets Vietnam kin of Tokyo's WWII soldiers

Japan emperor meets Vietnam kin of Tokyo's WWII soldiersJapan's royal couple on Thursday listened to the tearful stories of Vietnamese children who were abandoned by their Japanese soldier fathers after WWII, a symbolic meeting in Hanoi aimed at healing wounds between the former war foes. The 83-year-old Japanese emperor Akihito and his wife, Michiko, are on their first visit to Vietnam, the latest in a series of trips to former battlegrounds. The elderly couple shook hands and comforted more than a dozen children of the some 700 Japanese military men who decided to stay in Vietnam for a decade after their country's defeat in the second world war.


Man buys groceries for complete stranger in the supermarket checkout line

Man buys groceries for complete stranger in the supermarket checkout lineRyan O'Donnell, 34, paid for the elderly woman's groceries after her card kept getting declined.


South Korea's Lotte Duty Free says website crashed after attack from Chinese IPs

South Korea's Lotte Duty Free says website crashed after attack from Chinese IPsBy Joyce Lee and Heekyong Yang SEOUL (Reuters) - Lotte Duty Free on Thursday said a cyber attack using Chinese internet protocol (IP) addresses has crashed its website, the latest report of irregularity from a South Korean firm in China since Seoul decided to deploy a U.S. missile defense system. A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which overloads servers with requests, began slowing all four language versions of the website at 11:00 a.m. (0200 GMT) and crashed them all around 12:00 p.m., Lotte Duty Free said in a statement. The attack comes after affiliate Lotte International Co Ltd on Monday approved a land swap to allow the U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) system on what was once its property, in response to the North Korean missile threat.


Sessions Denies He Spoke To Russian Ambassador

Sessions Denies He Spoke To Russian AmbassadorAttorney General Jeff Sessions’ latest comments come after a report said he spoke to the Russian ambassador twice last year during the presidential campaign.


Victims of California plane crash identified by relatives

Victims of California plane crash identified by relativesRIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A plane that crashed into a California neighborhood and destroyed two homes was carrying husband-and-wife pilots and their grown daughter, and a mother and daughter who were friends of the family, relatives said Wednesday.


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