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Geneva (Switzerland), Jan 22 (EFE), (Camera: Antonio Broto).- The international Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) entered into force on Friday.It is backed by 51 countries, although the step is mainly symbolic since the world’s nuclear powers have not signed up.FOOTAGE OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS (ICRC) HEADQUARTERS IN GENEVA. SOUNDBITES OF ROBERTO MARDINI, DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS (ICRC).
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.
With the North Korean nuclear crisis looming large, 51 countries on Wednesday sign a new treaty outlawing nuclear weapons that has been fiercely opposed by the United States and other nuclear powers. IMAGES
People gather in Re'im, south of Israel, at the site of the Nova festival to light candles and pay tribute to the dead and kidnapped during the Hamas October 7 attack. IMAGES
Images of several hundred demonstrators marching in Paris to denounce the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip almost six months after the start of the war. The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said Saturday that at least 32,000 people have been killed in the territory during the months of war between Israel and Palestinian militants. It added that more than 75,000 people have been wounded in the Gaza Strip since the war began when Hamas militants attacked Israel on October 7. IMAGES
Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko makes his first public appearance in months, greeting and waving at hundreds of supporters in the capital Dakar, a day after his release from prison. Sonko is welcomed by the crowd ahead of a press conference he was due to hold with his deputy, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, who was also released from prison on Thursday and who Sonko has endorsed as a candidate for the country's March 24 presidential vote. IMAGES