News Source: Times of Oman
| 2 months ago
US President Barack Obama’s initiative to hold unconditional dialogue with Tehran is the main reason he won the Nobel Peace Prize, leading Iranian reformist daily Etemad said on Saturday "Iran's share in Obama receiving peace prize," said the...
News Source: The Guardian
| 2 months ago
More No-Bush than Nobel He may not have done all the work yet, but the Nobel peace prize recognises Obama's imaginative and energetic diplomacy At first glance, Obama's Nobel peace prize looks like a "Thanks For Not Being Bush" award. The deadline...
News Source: Washington Post
| 2 months ago
Only two other sitting presidents have won the Nobel peace prize, and they both won it for actual achievements. Theodore Roosevelt won in 1906 for his role in ending the Russo-Japanese war and Woodrow Wilson won in 1919 for founding the League of...
News Source: The Age
| 2 months ago
Wilson's "Fourteen points" laid the foundations of the League of Nations, the predecessor of today's United Nations...Brandt, a social democrat, was awarded the prize for his "Ostpolitik", or policy of reconciliation with East Germany...The two...
News Source: Seattle Times
| 2 months ago
Originally published Friday, October 9, 2009 at 4:53 AM Nobel winners cited for ongoing or recent work - 1978: egyptian president anwar al-sadat and israeli prime minister menachem begin for middle east peace efforts, specifically the camp david...