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Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Source: People.com
Oslo : Norway | about 1 month ago  
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  • U.S. President Obama turns to leave after commenting on winning the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington
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  • Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Jagland, announces that U.S. President Obama has won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, in Oslo
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  • U.S. President Obama talks on phone in Oval Office before commenting on winning 2009 Nobel Peace Prize at White House in Washington
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  • U.S. President Obama comments on winning 2009 Nobel Peace Prize while delivering a statement in Rose Garden of White House in Washington
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  • U.S. President Obama comments on winning 2009 Nobel Peace Prize while delivering statement in Rose Garden of White House in Washington
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  • U.S. President Obama comments on winning 2009 Nobel Peace Prize while delivering a statement in Rose Garden of the White House in Washington
    U.S. President Obama comments on winning 2009 Nobel Peace Prize while ...
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  • U.S. President Obama comments on winning the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in Rose Garden of White House in Washington
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  • U.S. President Obama comments on winning 2009 Nobel Peace Prize while delivering statement in Rose Garden of the White House in Washington
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  • U.S. President Obama comments on winning 2009 Nobel Peace Prize while delivering a statement in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington
    U.S. President Obama comments on winning 2009 Nobel Peace Prize while ...
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  • Jagland, the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, holds a picture of U.S. President Obama in Oslo
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  • U.S. President Obama works at his desk in Oval Office before commenting on winning 2009 Nobel Peace Prize at White House in Washington
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  • U.S. President Obama walks back to Oval Office after commenting on winning 2009 Nobel Peace Prize a in Rose Garden of White House in Washington
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  • U.S. President Obama leaves Oval Office to comment on winning 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in Rose Garden of White House in Washington
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  • U.S. President Obama walks from his podium after commenting on winning 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in Rose Garden of White House in Washington
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  • U.S. President Obama walks to podium to comment on winning 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in Rose Garden of White House in Washington
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  • U.S. President Obama walks from the podium after delivering remarks on the Nobel Peace Prize in Washington
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  • 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Thomas Steitz (R)speaks with the Yale University President Richard C. Levin during a news conference about winning the prize in New Haven, Connecticut
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  • 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Thomas Steitz poses in his lab after being told that he had won the Nobel at Yale University in New Haven
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  • 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Thomas Steitz (R)shakes hands with the Yale University President Richard C. Levin during a news conference about winning the prize in New Haven, Connecticut
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  • 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Thomas Steitz smiles as he addresses a news conference about winning the prize at Yale University campus in New Haven
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  • 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Thomas Steitz walks across the Yale University campus to a news conference about winning the prize in New Haven, Connecticut
    2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Thomas Steitz walks across the ...
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  • 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Thomas Steitz (C)walks across the Yale University campus to a news conference about winning the prize in New Haven, Connecticut
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  • Permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy announces that Herta Muller of Germany is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2009 in Stockholm
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  • 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Thomas Steitz speaks to a news conference at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut
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  • 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Thomas Steitz speaks to news conference at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut
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  • Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, announces that Herta Muller of Germany is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2009 in Stockholm
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  • 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Thomas Steitz walks across the Yale campus to a news conference with his wife Joan (L), students and colleagues after learning he had won the prize in New Haven
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U.S. President Obama turns to leave after commenting on winning the ...
The decision makes President Obama, son of an American woman and Kenyan father, the youngest U.S. president to win the prize and the third, after Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, to do so while in office. Mr. Obama's win comes 45 years after the prize was awarded...
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  • News Source: San Diego Union-Tribune | about 1 month ago
    Barack Obama's selection as this year's recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize just nine months into his presidency stunned people in San Diego County and across the globe Friday. The news dominated conversations from statehouses to coffee shops, with...
  • News Source: International Herald Tribune | about 1 month ago
    Normally the prize has been presented, even controversially, for accomplishment. This prize, to a 48-year-old freshman president, for “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” seemed a kind of...
  • News Source: Kansas City Star | about 1 month ago
    President Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize means international prestige, a cash award and a serious political headache.

    Republicans, some Democrats and political scientists said Friday the stunning award would complicate Obama’s decision-...

  • News Source: The Hindustan Times | about 1 month ago
    US President Barack Obama has decided to donate his about $1.4 million Nobel Peace prize money to charities. However, no decision has been made which charities or charity would get the prize money which the President would receive from the Nobel...
  • News Source: The Economic Times | about 1 month ago
    Oct 2009, 0445 hrs IST, Manoj Nair , ET Bureau Text: Barack Obama must be preparing another acceptance speech after becoming the youngest serving American president to win the Nobel Prize for peace and the third after Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow...
  • News Source: The New Vision | about 1 month ago
    The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised Obama for �his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples�. The first African-American to hold his country�s highest office, Obama has called for disarmament...
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  • Blog Source: www.khq.com
    OSLO, Norway. - The committee that awards the Nobel Peace Prize says it decided to give that prize to President Barack Obama to "promote what he stands for" and for the "positive processes" that he's started. ...
  • Blog Source: www.mcclatchydc.com
    US President Barack Obama was named the recipient of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday: "For his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." extra description.
  • Blog Source: hotair.com
    How many beers at the White House did the One have to promise to get this trinket. What would T.R. say? dean_acheson on October 9, 2009 at 7:40 AM. my first thoughts from the headlines post…. M E M O R A N D U M. To: Nobel Peace Prize ...
  • Blog Source: globalvoicesonline.org
    The President of USA Barack Obama received the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize today. According to the Nobel Committee he achieved it for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples”. ...
  • Blog Source: www.bvblackspin.com
    Friday morning it was announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee that President Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize, making him only the third sitting U.S. president to win the honorable distinction (Theodore Roosevelt was ...
  • Blog Source: crooksandliars.com
    Well, well, well....: President Barack Obama made history again Friday, winning the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples The Norwegian Nobel ...
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