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Member of a rightist group offer silent prayers for the victims of the atomic bombing with anti-U.S. banners near
the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Thursday. Japan marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on
Thursday. A banner, left, reads “ Is U.S. righteous? human rights? Don’t make a fool of victims!”
Japan marks 70th anniversary
of Hiroshima atomic bombing
Associated Press
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marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic
bombing of Hiroshima on Thursday, with
Mayor Kazumi Matsui renewing calls for
U.S. President Barack Obama and other
world leaders to step up efforts toward
making a nuclear weapons free world.
Tens of thousands of attendants stood
for a minute of silence at 8:30 a.m. at
the ceremony in Hiroshima’s peace park
near the epicenter of the 1945 attack,
marking the moment of the atomic blast.
Then dozens of doves were released as a
symbol of peace.
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dropped over Nagasaki three days later,
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criticized nuclear powers for keeping
them as threats to achieve their national
interests. He said the world still bristles
with more than 15,000 nuclear weapons.
He renewed an invitation to Obama
and other world leaders to visit Hiroshima
and Nagasaki to see the scars themselves.
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The anniversary comes as Japan is
divided over Prime Minister Shinzo
Abe’s push to pass unpopular legislation
to expand the country’s military role
internationally, a year after his Cabinet’s
decision to loosen Japan’s war-re-
nouncing constitution by adopting a new
interpretation of it.
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no proliferation.
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face a nuclear attack, Japan had a duty
to push for the elimination of nuclear
weapons. He pledged to promote the
cause through international conferences
to be held in Hiroshima later this month.
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the past year, bringing the total death toll
from the Hiroshima bombing to 297,684.
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divided over Abe’s push to pass unpop-
ular legislation to expand the country’s
military role internationally.
The sea of people who attended the
ceremony this year also included U.S.
Ambassador Caroline Kennedy and
representatives from more than 100
countries, including Britain, France and
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percent of the city and killed an estimated
140,000 people, including those who
succumbed to injuries and radiation
sickness in the ensuing weeks.
Candidate who didn’t even vote wins
Mississippi Democratic nomination
By EMILY WAGSTER
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Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. — The
46-year-old truck driver who
won the Democratic nomina-
tion for Mississippi governor
says he spent nothing on his
campaign and knows nobody
in politics. He didn’t even
vote in the primary because
he says he was busy.
Robert Gray can’t explain
how he defeated the trial
lawyer who was the favored
candidate of the party
establishment in Tuesday’s
primary.
Gray, who has lived in the
Jackson area most of his life,
visited the state Capitol on
Wednesday for what he said
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was at the request of reporters
trying to answer the biggest
question in this Republi-
can-dominated state: Who the
heck is this guy?
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because, well, he’s not exactly
chatty.
Democrats
controlled
Mississippi
politics
for
decades, but they’ve been
steamrolled in most gover-
nor’s races for a generation.
Now, many longtime Demo-
crats worry that Gray will
simply be the next hapless
victim of a well-funded
Republican machine.
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or has anybody ever seen
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gubernatorial
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Marty Wiseman, a Demo-
cratic-leaning retired political
scientist, said on Facebook.
Wiseman questioned how
someone who made few
appearances could carry most
counties and win a three-
person primary without a
runoff: “Something ain’t right
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Gray has driven a big rig
since the early 1990s and said
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— President Barack Obama
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nuclear deal Wednesday as
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American people, warning
Congress that blocking
the accord would damage
the nation’s credibility and
increase the likelihood of
more war in the Middle
East.
Besides challenging
opponents at home, Obama
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Benjamin Netanyahu as
an isolated international
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most of its nuclear program
for at least a decade in
exchange for billions
of dollars in relief from
international sanctions.
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critics in the U.S. argue that
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building a bomb.
The president’s blunt
remarks, in an hour-long
address at American
University, were part of an
intense lobbying campaign
by the White House ahead
of Congress’ vote next
month to either approve or
disapprove the international
agreement. Opponents
of the agreement have
streamed to Capitol Hill,
too, to make their case,
and they have spent tens
of millions of dollars on
advertisements.
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to build a bomb that is on
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centerpiece of his foreign
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building a bomb.
Half of blacks say
police have treated
them unfairly
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— A majority of blacks in
the United States — more
than 3 out of 5 — say they
or a family member have
personal experience with
being treated unfairly by the
police, and their race is the
reason.
Half of African-
American respondents,
including 6 in 10 black
men, said they personally
had been treated unfairly by
police because of their race,
compared with 3 percent
of whites. Another 15
percent said they knew of
a family member who had
been treated unfairly by the
police because of their race.
This information, from
a survey conducted by the
Associated Press-NORC
Center for Public Affairs
Research, comes as the
Michael Brown shooting
in Ferguson, Missouri,
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anniversary and the nation
continues to grapple with
police-related deaths of
black Americans.
White Americans
who live in more diverse
communities — where
census data show at least 25
percent of the population
is non-white — were
more likely than other
whites to say police in
their communities mistreat
minorities, 58 percent to 42
percent. And they’re more
likely to see the police as too
quick to use deadly force,
42 percent to 29 percent.
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described his encounter
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everybody starting to
record it and stuff, it’s just
hitting the spotlight. Most
Caucasians, they think it’s
just starting to go on when
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370 that vanished last year,
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announced Thursday, saying
he hoped the news ends the
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of the passengers’ families.
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the U.S. and Australia were
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mixed messages were
causing them yet more
confusion and anxiety.
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from Kuala Lumpur to
Beijing on March 8, 2014,
has been one of the biggest
mysteries in aviation history.
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aboard, but it is unknown
why the plane went down.
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Flight 370.
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government, which leads
the seabed search for
wreckage west of Australia,
was also less certain
than Malaysia, saying in
a statement that “based
on high probability, it is
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Robert Gray of Jackson, who won the Democratic primary for governor over two
candidates, is interviewed in the hallway of the state Capitol in Jackson, Miss.,
Wednesday.
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Gov. Phil Bryant is failing to
help improve life in a state
where poverty is a persistent
problem. Gray said he wants
to expand Medicaid and spend
more on schools and high-
ways. He has never worked
on legislation, but he listens to
a lot of public radio while he’s
driving, and he uses the word
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any policy wonk.
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for about 25 years, a little
longer than Gray has been
hauling freight. Bryant moved
up from state representative to
auditor to lieutenant governor
and then to governor.
Gray said he’s not daunted
by Bryant’s $2.8 million
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spends it, because, believe
it or not, that helps the
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dates have won Democratic
nominations in the conserva-
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2014 in Tennessee, Democrat
Charlie Brown, who had no
campaign organization, lost
the governor’s race by a wide
margin to Republican incum-
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South Carolina, unemployed
Army veteran Alvin Greene
won the Democratic primary
for a U.S. Senate seat with
few public appearances and
no campaign cash; he lost the
general election to Republican
Sen. Jim DeMint.
Mississippi Democratic
chairman Rickey Cole met
privately with Gray on
Wednesday at the party head-
quarters, and said he believes
that the nominee will appeal
to voters who are sick of slick
politicians.
“He brings to the race
an authenticity that’s totally
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