Pelosi is next in line to the presidency after Vice-President Cheney The speaker of the US House of Representatives has laid flowers at a Japanese memorial to atom bomb victims. Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, is the highest ranking US figure to visit the site in Hiroshima, the first city in the world to suffer a nuclear attack. More than 140,000 people were killed by the American bomb, dropped towards the end of World... [read full story]
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HIROSHIMA — Lower house speakers from the Group of Eight nations promised Tuesday to strengthen efforts to uphold and reinforce the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which comes up for review in 2010. But despite lofty...
Tuesday, September 02, 2008, (Hiroshima) US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi laid flowers on Tuesday at a memorial to the Hiroshima atomic bombing, becoming the highest-ranking sitting US official to pay respects at the site....
