
Tokyo: Japan marked the 66th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki with a solemn ceremony on Saturday and a call for world powers to abandon their nuclear weapons. Thousands of children, elderly survivors and dignitaries in the city's Peace Park bowed their heads in a minute of silence at 11:02 am (10:02 pm EDT), the time the bomb was dropped, to remember the tens of thousands who ultimately died...

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Tokyo: The Japanese city of Nagasaki marked the 65th anniversary of the US atomic bomb attack on Monday with a record 32 countries attending — but no American representative. A moment of silence was observed at 11:02 am, the time when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the southern Japanese city on August 9, 1945, in the waning days of World War II. Nagasaki was flattened three days...

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