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Taiwan's largest opposition party, the Kuomintang, has observed the 130th anniversary of its founding. Its leader says he intends to continue to seek to ease tensions with China, which have grown as ...

ノルウェーの首都・オスロで行われるノーベル平和賞の授賞式などに出席するため、被爆者で医師の朝長万左男さんが25日、長崎を出発しました。「原爆の影響が生涯続くということを若者に伝えたい」と話しています。