debarry
Doug Barry
debarry

Japan's long overdue apology and compensation for the so-called "comfort women" from Korea it pressed into sex slavery during World War II is complicating President Obama's foreign policy plans in Asia. South Korea still wants that mea culpa from Japan, but Japan (so far), won't budge. Read more

Silvio Berlusconi will bow out of public life for a while, and by "bow out" we of course mean "be officially banned from holding elected office after a Milan court convicted him of tax fraud." Read more