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By Gwladys Fouche, Chang-Ran Kim for Reuters Lanterns are lit by the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima to mark the 78th anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb attack. (file photo) Photo: STR / AFP Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, has won the Nobel Peace Prize, in a warning to countries that have nuclear weapons not to use them. Many survivors of the only two nuclear bombs ever to be used in conflict, who are known in Japanese as "hibakusha", have dedicated their lives to the struggle for a nuclear-free world. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said in its citation the group was receiving the Peace Prize for "its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimo...

By Stephen Collinson of CNN Obama in Pennyslvania. Photo: AFP / Ryan Collerd Analysis: Exactly 16 years ago, an impossibly young-looking Barack Obama was barnstorming through Ohio on a bus tour Analysis: - Exactly 16 years ago, an impossibly young-looking Barack Obama was barnstorming through Ohio on a bus tour, electrifying huge crowds and emphatically closing the deal on his thumping 2008 election victory. On another October night on Thursday, the 63-year-old ex-president was back on stage, with a vast American flag for a backdrop, trying to do for Kamala Harris what she's so far struggled to do herself - put away the 2024 election. The snowy haired Obama had swapped Ohio, which ceased to be a closely contested presidential state as soon as he left the White House, for this year's ...