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Japan Politics · NagasakiThousands bowed their heads in prayer in Nagasaki on Saturday to mark the 80th anniversary of the city's atomic bombing, as the mayor warned that current global conflicts could push the world again into nuclear war. The western Japanese city was levelled on August 9, 1945, when the United States dropped a 10,000-pound plutonium-239 bomb, nicknamed "Fat Man", instantly killing some 27,000 of the city's estimated 200,000 people. By the end of 1945, the death toll from acute radiation exposure had reached about 70,000.See the Story
Nagasaki mayor warns of nuclear war as city marks 80 years since A-bomb
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Donald Trump · ChinaBANGKOK (AP) — World shares were mixed on Monday, the day before U.S. President Donald Trump’s deadline for imposing higher tariffs on goods imported from China. Oil prices extended declines that began last week on expectations for a possible breakthrough in the Ukraine conflict from Trump’s planned meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday in Alaska. Increases in output by the OPEC plus countries have also pulled prices lower on e…See the Story
World Shares Are Mixed Ahead of Trump’s Deadline for Imposing Higher Tariffs on Chinese Goods
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