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Elderly former South Korean sex slaves see time running out on quest for justice from Japan

• TOECHON, South Korea (AP) -- A single picture captures the regret, shame and rage that Kim Gun-ja has harbored through most of her 89 years. Dressed in a long white wedding gown, she carries a bouquet of red flowers and stares at the camera, her deep wrinkles obscured by makeup and a diaphanous veil.
• A local company arranged wedding-style photo shoots as gifts for Kim and other elderly women at the House of Sharing, a museum and nursing home for South Koreans forced into brothels by Japan during World War II. Kim and many of the other women never married, giving the pictures a measure of bitterness.
• "That could have been my life: Meet a man, get married, have children, have grandchildren," Kim said in her small, tidy room at the nursing home south of Seoul. "But it never happened. It could never be."
• Japanese soldiers stole her youth, she says, and now, "The Japanese are waiting for us to die."
• There are only 55 women left who registered with the South Korean government as former sex slaves from the war -- down from a peak of more than 230. Their average age is 88.
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As FAA develops rules for aerial drones, Conn. investigation highlights issues for journalism

• HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- As police responded to a deadly car crash, they noticed an increasingly familiar sight: a remote-controlled aircraft, equipped with a video camera, hovering over the wreckage.
• The Federal Aviation Administration has opened an investigation of the drone, which was used by an on-call employee for a Connecticut television station. The FAA is developing new rules as the technology makes drones far more versatile, but for now operators can run afoul of regulations by using them for commercial purposes, including journalism.
• The case of the Hartford crash, in which the victim's body was left hanging out of a mangled car, highlights some of the safety, privacy and ethical issues that journalists will wrestle with as interest grows in using drones for newsgathering.
• "Here was a dead body still on the scene. We had covered it the best we could,"

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