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SEOUL: A foundation set up to compensate victims of Japan’s wartime sex slavery has been formally dissolved, South Korean officials said on Friday, the latest chapter in a bitter dispute over the two countries’ shared history. The $8.8 million fund was established in 2015 as Tokyo and Seoul made a renewed effort to push past their continuing row over Japan’s …

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