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Nearly two thousand Catholics in Nagasaki, Japan attend a special mass at a church destroyed by the atomic bomb to commemorate 70 years since the world's last nuclear attack. Gavino Garay reports.
Nagasaki, Aug 8 (EFE/EPA).- The Japanese city of Nagasaki will commemorate on Sunday the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing that devastated its civilian population at the end of World War II with a ceremony in which local authorities urged the central government, the United States and Russia to join the United Nations' anti-nuclear treaty.The nuclear attack carried out by the US on Aug. 9, 1945, on Nagasaki was the second time the atomic bomb had been deployed following the one on Hiroshima three days earlier. It killed around 74,000 people, mostly civilians. (Camera: DAI KUROKAWA). SHOT LIST: B-ROLL OF THE JAPANESE CITY OF NAGASAKI AND THE NAGASAKI ATOMIC BOMB MUSEUM IN NAGASAKI, SOUTHERN JAPAN.
Berlin, Aug 5 (EFE / EPA), (Camera: Felipe Trueba).- Visual artist Eme Freethinker has painted a mural in Berlin to mark the 75th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. His work calls for a world without nuclear weapons.FOOTAGE OF THE MURAL IN BERLIN.
Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attend a national ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II. IMAGES
Hiroshima, Aug 6 (EFE/EPA).- A ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima served Thursday as a call for the government of Japan, the only country that has suffered a nuclear attack, to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).The appeal was made by Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui at the commemoration of the United States' nuclear attack on Aug. 6, 1945, three days before another atomic bomb destroyed the Japanese city of Nagasaki.(Camera: DAI KUROKAWA)FOOTAGE SHOWS THE CEREMONY TO COMMEMORATE THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE NUCLEAR BOMB THAT DESTROYED HIROSHIMA IN HIROSHIMA, JAPAN.