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Survivors of Japan’s southern city of Nagasaki, the second location to be hit by a United States atomic bomb during World War II, hope they will be the last victims of nuclear weapons. Hibakushas — a Japanese term for people affected by the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings at the end of World War II —

A ceasefire to end a flare-up in fighting between Israel and the Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ) in the Gaza Strip held overnight Sunday into Monday morning. The situation along Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip remained quiet since the Egyptian-brokered agreement to halt three days of violence that left 44 Palestinians, including 15 children, dead

A Lebanese trader who was expected to buy the grain aboard the first ship to leave the port of Odesa since Russia invaded Ukraine has rejected the goods as Kyiv scrambles to source a new buyer, the Ukrainian embassy in Beirut told Efe Monday. According to the Ukrainian transport ministry, the buyer in Lebanon «refused

Pakistan’s K2, the most difficult of the eight-thousanders to climb, has seen a record number of climbers this season, reviving memories of the 2019 «traffic jam» on Mt. Everest. Asian Alpine Club spokesperson Karrar Haidri told EFE that on July 22, taking advantage of ideal weather, 145 mountaineers summited K2, setting a record for the

The Chinese armed forces announced they will continue Monday with the military drills around Taiwan that began in response to United States House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the self-governed island. The military exercises, which started on Thursday, were scheduled to end on Sunday, although Beijing did not officially confirm the date for

Any attack on a nuclear power plant would be «suicidal,» warned United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Monday following the weekend’s shelling of the largest atomic plant in Europe. Moscow and Kyiv have accused each other of carrying out the attack on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which has been under Russian control since

Social and political organizations on Sunday participated in the traditional yearly St. Cayetano march in Buenos Aires in honor of the patron saint of bread and labor and which on this occasion comes amid Argentina’s complicated economic scenario of «suffocating» inflation, salary devaluation and high poverty figures. Social organizations gathered Sunday morning in the capital’s

The number of Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip in the ongoing escalation of violence between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) increased to 31 on Sunday, after another night of exchange of fire. Moreover, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, a total 265 Palestinians have been wounded in the escalation so far, including

The silence of rural life of Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip has been interrupted by sirens amid an escalation of tensions between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) in recent days. “We are scared to death and we want this to end,” Eduardo Polonsky, a 61-year-old farmer who lives in the Or HaNer

Taiwan denounced Sunday that the Chinese armed forces continue to simulate attacks on the island and its naval forces on what should be the last day of military maneuvers by Beijing. The military drills by Beijing were announced in retaliation to United States House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the self-governing island, claimed

Famine, destabilization of countries and mass migration lie ahead if the international community does not «move quickly» to address the «perfect storm» of food shortages resulting from the war in Ukraine, the executive director of the World Food Program (WFP) told Efe here. «Not many people realize, before the Ukrainian crisis we were facing the

Tottenham Hotspur overcame an early hiccup Saturday to pound Southampton 4-1, while Chelsea needed a penalty to prevail 1-0 over Everton. With six of the 20 Premier League sides – including reigning champions Manchester City – yet to play their first matches, Spurs are top of the table thanks to better goal difference than the

Three people were killed and 21 others injured Saturday when a bomb went off in a mainly Shiite neighborhood on the west side of this capital, an Afghan police commander told Efe, though other police sources said the death toll was 12. The same neighborhood was the scene Friday of a bombing by Islamic State

China’s response to the Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan is “irresponsible”, the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Saturday. “Suspending climate cooperation doesn’t punish the United States, it punishes the world, particularly the developing world,” Blinken said in an online news conference with his Philippine counterpart

Mushi Halioua is the only Jew still living in the Jewish quarter of the western Moroccan city of Marrakech, where he runs a textile shop. His small business, in a square on the edge of the Jewish quarter, has been in his family since 1962, when they arrived in Marrakech from Zagora, 350 kilometers to

The worst monsoon rains in decades have killed more than 550 people in Pakistan, including 207 children, an official said on Saturday. Numerous locations have experienced flooding as a result of the rainfall, with the poor southwest Balochistan region suffering the worst. «The rains have broken a 30-year record,” National Disaster Management Authority spokesperson Sara