News Source: Epoch Times
| about 1 month ago
President Barack Obama speaks at the Rose Garden of the White House on October 9, 2009 after winning the Nobel Peace Prize. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images) After nine months in the White House, President Barack Obama was the surprise winner of the worldâ
News Source: Sudan Tribune
| 2 months ago
Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) led by Abdel Wahid Al-Nur dismissed statements by Sudanese army over the control of its positions near Jebel Marra. The rebel group further urged Khartoum to disarm its militias if it seeks genuine peace process. A
News Source: NewKerala
| 3 months ago
India's Bindeshwar Pathak, the founder of Sulabh sanitation movement, will receive the 2009 Stockholm Water Prize, as delegates from over 130 countries gathered here Monday for the annual World Water Week conference. Keynote speakers included Swedish
News Source: Zaman.com
| 7 months ago
The event was organized by the Aspen Atlantic Group (AAG), an initiative aimed to foster a more collaborative transatlantic exchange under the auspices of the Washington-based Aspen Institute. During the event, titled "Turkey: Forging a Common Agenda
News Source: Epoch Times
| 8 months ago
Sweden—Five editors-in-chief of Sweden’s biggest newspapers initiated a joint campaign for the release of the jailed Swedish journalist, Dawit Isaak, last week. He has been imprisoned in the Northeast African country of Eritrea since 2001. Isaak
News Source: United Press International
| 8 months ago
Swedish Foreign Minister Jan Eliasson says he met twice with Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki in an effort to free jailed journalist Dawit Isaak. Eliasson said that in 2007 he talked twice to Afwerki about Isaak, who has been jailed without charges
News Source: The Local
| 8 months ago
The quiet diplomacy has however proved fruitless during the seven years Dawit Isaak has been imprisoned without charge. Jan Eliasson, claims to have met Eritrea's president Isaias Afwerki on two occasions in 2007 with the aim of securing the release
News Source: The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
Swedish diplomat and long-time conflict negotiator Jan Eliasson shared his experiences and outlined a general plan for conflict resolution on his fourth trip to Lebanon during a lecture yesterday at the American University of Beirut dubbed, "Peace-