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Truth and Reconciliation Commission Chairperson Park Sun Young, right, comforts adoptee Yooree Kim during a press conference in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

South Korean truth commission halts probe into adoption fraud, hundreds of cases in limbo

By Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press

South Korea's presidential office's senior secretary for civil and social affairs Hwang Sang Moo briefs at the presidential office in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. South Korea’s presidential office said Monday it approved a request by the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission to extend its term by a year through late-May 2025. Investigators had been calling for more time to examine a broad range of human rights violations linked to Seoul’s past military governments, including a widespread falsifying of child origins that fueled a government-backed foreign adoption boom in the 1970s and '80s. (Jin Sung-chul/Yonhap via AP)

South Korea grants extension of truth commission as investigators examine foreign adoption cases

By Kim Tong-Hyung - Associated Press

A South African Police Service forensic officer digs up a grave for the exhumation of two bodies that are believed to be those of young activists at Avalon Cemetery in Johannesburg on Tuesday, March 12, 2013. Authorities believe the bodies are those of two young activists last seen 24 years ago at the home of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Bodies exhumed in killings tied to Nelson Mandela’s ex-wife Winnie

By Michelle Faul - Associated Press