G7, Israel envoys personally invited to attend Nagasaki bomb ceremony

Nagasaki officials personally invited the ambassadors of Group of Seven nations and Israel to attend this year's annual peace ceremony in August commemorating the 1945 atomic bombing of the city, a local official said Friday.The move follows Nagasaki's decision last year not to invite Israel to the ceremony over its conduct in the Gaza Strip -- a decision the United States criticized as politically motivated -- which prompted the ambassadors of the G7 and the European Union to skip the event.The personal invitations mark a "special exception" from the usual practice of just sending invitati…READ FULL ARTICLE