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“This is not an either/or question”, said Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, a Washington-based think tank that convened meetings in Chicago and Washington. Sheriff’s Deputy Darren Goforth was shot 15 times at close range at...

O’Malley “apologized like a little baby”. See when some wannabe SJW, says “All Lives Matter”, they forget that police aren’t killing all people equally. At one recent Hillary Clinton campaign event in Keene, New Hampshire, four Black Lives...

A powerful bomb exploded outside a Hindu temple in Bangkok, killing at least 27 people.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday, the day marking the 70th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II, sent a ritual offering to the notorious Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, which honors Japan’s war dead, including 14 Class-A convicted criminals of WWII.

Tens of thousands were injured and died later. The second bomb, “Fat Man”, dropped on Nagasaki three days later, killed 70,000, prompting Japan’s surrender in World War II.

Tens of thousands of people gathered in Hiroshima yesterday to mark 70 years since the atomic bombing that helped end World War II but still divides opinion today over whether the total destruction it caused was justified.

In the UK, the current military nuclear weapon system, Trident, is often criticised as being too expensive to maintain and unnecessary in its mission to keep world peace by some politicians and political parties.

As the only country to have experienced nuclear bombs – Nagasaki was attacked three days later – Japan has a special duty to work toward a world free of nuclear weapons, Abe told the audience after a minute’s silence. On that day in 1945, the US Air Force...

The Hiroshima bombing and its aftermath ultimately claimed about 140,000 lives, helping to draw to a close the deadliest conflict in history and, for better or worse, usher in the atomic age. “It is our mission to convey to the world and to the coming generations the...

By the end of the year, 140,000, including tens of thousands of Koreans and other non-Japanese, had died because of the bombing and its after-effects.

More than 200,000 people died of nuclear radiation, shock waves from the blasts and thermal radiation resulting from bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 and of Nagasaki three days later.

In a tiny restaurant in Hiroshima, they serve a dish that originated 68 years ago.

Kolkata: The dismal flood situation in West Bengal, which has claimed over 70 lives, has improved but the release of water from barrages continues to be an issue, Irrigation Minister Rajib Banerjee said on Tuesday. About 37 lakh people in 12 districts of the State have been...

In Hiroshima a bell tolled at 08:15 local time – when US aircraft B-29 Enola Gay dropped the bomb that flattened the city centre.

The death toll jumped from around 120 on Monday, after the discovery of more bodies in West Bengal and the western state of Gujarat where water levels have receded, allowing families to return home. Numerous deaths were due to drowning, collapsed masonry, lightning strikes and...