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News of the Day From Around the World, March 24

1 School scandal: A political controversy swirling around the Japanese prime minister shows no sign of abating, with the head of a nationalist school swearing under oath Thursday that Shinzo Abe sent him a $9,000 donation. The allegation, which Abe strongly denies, is hurting the previously unassailable prime minister, causing his approval ratings to plummet and sparking talk of a snap election as soon as next month. The controversy centers on an Osaka school organization, Moritomo Gakuen, which runs a kindergarten that had exhorted children to cheer on Abe’s tough stance against Japan’s neighbors and had sent out notes about “wicked” Koreans and Chinese. The army said Thursday that its troops killed 15 extremists and took seven prisoners in the raid but that three officers and seven enlisted men were killed by roadside bombs while in pursuit of fighters. The army has been increasingly saying it is taking the fight deeper into the peninsula’s sparsely populated desert and mountainous areas such as Jebel Halal, targeting insurgent weapons depots. Federal Judge Claudio Bonadio ordered former Argentina President Cristina Fernandez Thursday to face trial in a case where she is accused of defrauding the state as part of her government’s handling of the dollar futures market.

 

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