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President Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

By: genius-world

OSLO – President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision designed to encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilateralism. Many observers were shocked by the unexpected choice so early in the Obama presidency, ...

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President Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

By: dustgeer

President Obama, who has pledged to place diplomacy ahead of confrontation and reached out to a skeptical world with offers of mutual understanding, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today for what the committee called "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."Obama is only the ...

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It's not like Obama hasn't done anything

By: CaliforniaMike

Before we allow the right wing to get too carried away with saying President Barack Obama hasn't done anything at all yet to merit a Nobel Peace Prize, let's look at his first eight months in office in terms of the world. With thanks to the Economist's Democracy in America blog, here are a few: 1. In his first week in office, he announced that ...

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Obama,Palestine and Israel

By: amor77

Palestinians reacted with concern over the Sunday comments by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton supported Israel's position calling for the resumption of negotiations without stopping settlement. presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina told AFP that "the U.S. administration backtracked on their promise and failed to meet their obligations, ...

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