BERLIN New Balance 574 Sport , June 27 (Xinhua) -- Mainz have signed Alexandru Maxim from newly promoted league rivals Stuttgart, both Bundesliga clubs announced on Tuesday.
The "Nuellfuenfer" strengthened their offense with the transfer of attacking midfielder Alexandru Maxim, who has put pen to paper on a four-year deal until June 2021.
"Alexandru Maxim is a classic midfielder. He finds the open spaces and is dangerous near the goal area. He will enrich our squad. We are very pleased that he opted for Mainz New Balance 574 Retro ," Mainz' sporting director Rouven Schroeder said.
Maxim knows the Bundesliga business very well as he made overall 131 appearances for Stuttgart where he provided 35 assists and 17 goals since 2013.
"I am delighted to be able to wear Mainz' jersey in the future. I am convinced that I have made the right decision," Maxim said.
The 26-year-old midfielder is since 2012 part of Romania's national team where he scored two goals in 27 international caps.
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BAGHDAD, May 30 (Xinhua) -- The Islamic State (IS) group on Tuesday claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack at busy commercial area in Iraqi capital of Baghdad that killed 11 people and wounded 75 others, the group said in an online statement.
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MANILA, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- Three former Philippine comfort women, who were forced to work in Japanese military brothels during World War ll, led a rally Friday in front of the Japanese Embassy in Manila to protest Japan's rising militarism.
"Japan is again making its presence felt in matters of security in the Asia Pacific," said Rechilda Extremadura, executive director of Lila Pilipina, an organization of Philippine comfort women.
"(The Japanese) government is again taking the militarist path after convincing the Japanese people and its victim-nations to erase in their collective memory Japan's World War II atrocities like wartime sexual slavery through the comfort women system," she said.
Extremadura told Xinhua that only three ageing victims participated in the protest rally, saying many of the victims are in their late 80s and 90s.
"Only a few number of World War II comfort women are left to express their alarm over Japan's rising militarism, but their commitment remains unwavering," Extremadura said.
She said the protest was an advance commemoration of the end of World War II which the organizers dubbed as International Memorial Day of Comfort Women on Aug. 14.
"The action also serves to call attention on their plight in time with the last day of visit in the Philippines of Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida," she said. Kishida is in the Philippines for a three-day visit that ended Friday.
During his visit, Kishida discussed with Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte and Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay on a string of issues, including trade, economy and maritime security.
Extremadura said Japan was able to convince the South Korean government in December, "through U.S. prodding, to give up its fight for comfort women by accepting 1 billion yen for comfort women in exchange for their silence."
"Then, early this year, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made an explicit call for the amendment of Japan Constitution's Article 9 that prevents Japan from maintaining and building up its military force, saying it is inconsistent with the existence of its Self-Defense Force," she said.