Asian women hail UN sex-slave ruling TOKYO (AP) - Supporters of Asian women forced into sexual slavery by Japan's army during World War II praised a U.N. resolution Saturday urging compensation from Tokyo. In a 15-2 resolution Thursday, the U.N. Subcommission on Human Rights stressed that under international law, governments are responsible for war crimes and other rights violations committed by their soldiers. The U.N. rejected Japanese claims that it has already compensated war victims sufficiently, and is under no obligation to give more money. Former comfort women and groups that represent them said the U.N. resolution will help them obtain restitution from a government that they claim wishes the issue would simply disappear. See full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560908207-e68> Bullfight law broken in Portugal BARRANCOS, Portugal (AP) - Two Latin American matadors delighted spectators in this remote Portuguese town Sunday by killing the bulls they had just fought, defying legislation banning the practice. Unlike in the Spanish bullfighting tradition, where killing the animal culminates the fight, in Portugal the bulls are normally led away to be slain later in an abattoir. But not in Barrancos. Residents here say neither a 1928 law nor more recent coup changed their 300-year-old traditional bullfight, held during the town's annual summer festival. Hundreds of people sat in the specially constructed wooden ring in high-spirited tension before the two bulls were killed. See full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560926323-61e>
