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On Monday, the foreign ministers of South Korea and Japan announced a deal meant to bring resolution to decades of animosity over the issue of comfort women: the tens of thousands of Korean women forced to work as sex slaves by Japan during the Second World War. In a joint statement delivered by Fumio Kishida alongside his South Korean counterpart Yun...

On this day in 1945, the United States dropped the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. This was the first use of a nuclear weapon in the history of war; followed only by the bombing of Nagasaki three days later. World War II had effectively come to a close in Europe on 8 May, with the surrender of Nazi Germany....