Japan's aging atomic bomb survivors speak out against nuclear weapons
The U.S. attack on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, and three days later on Nagasaki killed more than 200,000 people by the end of that year. Others survived but with radiation illness.
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Morrocan truck drivers kidnapped by Islamic State group released in Mali
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