News Source: The Journal-World
| about 1 month ago
President Barack Obama speaks June 4 at Cairo University in Cairo, Egypt. Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” the Norwegian Nobel...
News Source: Star-Bulletin
| about 1 month ago
While President Barack Obama was commended yesterday for being the first Hawaii person to win the Nobel Peace Prize, the Hawaii Republican Party bashed him, saying his recognition is without merit. "What significant shift has taken place on the...
News Source: The Denver Post
| about 1 month ago
Iranian Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi congratulated President Barack Obama on joining the family of peace prize winners Friday — and challenged him to focus on helping Iran's people rather than encouraging sanctions and a confrontation over...
News Source: The Indianapolis Star
| about 1 month ago
After Obama won, Lugar sent him a congratulatory note and encouraged him to seek a seat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where Lugar is the top Republican. Obama asked Lugar if he could go along on one of the frequent trips Lugar makes to...
News Source: Greenwich Time
| about 1 month ago
The news that President Barack Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize was a surprise just about everywhere Friday, and that certainly included Greenwich. "It was goosebump time," said Stephen Myers of Riverside, a retired physicist, after he heard the...
News Source: Asian Wall Street Journal
| about 1 month ago
In 1935, the prize went to Carl von Ossietzky, a German journalist imprisoned for his opposition to Hitler. The Nazi government protested to the Norwegians and banned Germans from receiving Nobel prizes in 1937 as Europe sped towards war. In 1940,...