However, the envoys of six leading Western countries, including the United States and Britain, as well as the European Union, were absent from the Aug. 9 ceremony in Nagasaki. This disheartening ...

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NAGASAKI—The mayor of Nagasaki has decided not to invite a representative of Israel to attend the city’s peace ceremony on the Aug. 9 atomic bombing anniversary, citing the risk of possible ...

On Wednesday, 9 August 1922, an Irish Free State soldier named Flood was shot by anti-Treaty forces who had taken up positions in the hills overlooking Rochestown and Douglas, hoping to obstruct ...