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2013 Nobel Peace Prize draws a record 259 nominees
A record 259 nominees are in the running for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize — 209 individuals and 50 organisations — with the laureate to be announced in October, the Nobel Institute said on Monday. The list is known to include Malala Yousafzai, the shot Pakistani schoolgirl-turned-icon of Taliban resistance,…
Nobel peace prize winner predicts political collapse in Yemen
Yemeni Nobel peace laureate Tawakkul Karman warned in an interview with AFP that her country’s transition process is on the brink of collapse and demanded ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh be banned from politics. The activist, who was a leading figure during the youth uprising in Yemen in 2011, also claimed…
Divided European Union steps up to collect Nobel Peace Prize
Undermined by three years of economic crisis, the European Union steps up divided Monday to collect this year’s Nobel peace prize, awarded for turning Europe “from a continent of war to a continent of peace”. The Nobel medal, diploma and almost million-euro prize will be handed to the organisation’s top…
Americans top the list of favorites for Monday’s Nobel Economics Prize
Americans top the list of favourites for Monday’s Nobel Economics Prize, an award that increasingly rarely seems to go to a European. The European Union was handed this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, but it seems unlikely that the continent will be home to the winner of the economics prize, which…
Euroskeptics condemn EU Nobel peace prize
Eurosceptics reacted with dismay on Friday after the European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize, saying the award would be brought into disrepute. European Parliament member Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence Party, said the 27-nation bloc was creating “violence and division” in eurozone nations like Spain and…
Nobel winner collects her prize, two decades later
Saturday was the culmination of a 22-year journey “back into the wider human community” for Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese politician and activist who finally collected her Nobel Peace Prize, as the New York Times reports. Suu Kyi accepted her award in front of a packed audience in Oslo,…
Jimmy Carter warns against war with Iran
CHICAGO — Former US President Jimmy Carter warned against a possible war with Iran Monday as he decried his nation’s involvement in unjust conflicts at a summit of Nobel Peace Prize laureates in Chicago. Carter, a naval veteran who served as Democratic president from 1977 to 1981, said that while…
Former President Bill Clinton among Nobel Prize nominees
OSLO (Reuters) – Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki, alleged WikiLeaks whistleblower Bradley Manning, and former President Bill Clinton may be among the hundreds of nominees for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize, rights activists say. The list of nominees, which is now officially closed for this year, is secret and Nobel officials…
Three women receive Nobel Peace Prize
Liberia’s president, a fellow Liberian and a Yemeni activist received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo Saturday for showing how women facing war and oppression can shed the mantle of victimhood and lead the way to peace and democracy. “You represent one of the most important motive forces for change…
China peace prize awarded to Russia’s Putin
A group of Chinese academics has awarded its version of the Nobel Peace Prize to Vladimir Putin, an organiser said Tuesday, pointing to the Russian Prime Minister as “outstanding in keeping world peace.” Putin beat other candidates such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Yuan Longping, a Chinese agricultural scientist,…
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