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MAURITIUS has declared a state of emergency after at least 1,000 tonnes of oil poured into the Indian Ocean when a Japanese ship ran aground on a reef. Here is a map of the spill and the impact the oil has had.
Thousands of residents and environmental activists are working to contain the damage before a Japanese-owned tanker which ran aground two weeks ago breaks apart.
The Japanese city of Nagasaki on Sunday commemorated the 75th anniversary of its destruction by a US atomic bomb, with its mayor and the head of the United Nations warning against a nuclear arms race. Nagasaki was flattened in an atomic inferno three days after Hiroshima -- twin nuclear attacks that rang in the nuclear age and gave Japan the bleak distinction of being the only country to be struck by atomic weapons. Survivors, their relatives and a handful of foreign dignitaries attended a remembrance ceremony in Nagasaki where they called for world peace. Participants offered a silent prayer at 11:02 am (0202 GMT), the time the second and last nuclear...
