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IRAN STEALS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
In what would be a dastardly first, Norway has accused Iranian authorities of stealing a Nobel Peace Prize. The prize belongs to Iranian national Shirin Ebadi, a human rights lawyer who received the honor in 2003. “The medal and the diploma have...
Tags: Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Prize, Nobel Peace, Norway, Oslo, Iran, Tehran, Shirin Ebadi, Iranian Authorities, Iranian National, Human Rights, Lawyer, Human Rights Lawyer, Dr. Ebadi, Norway foreign minister, Foreign Minister, Iran Steals, Advocacy, Norway allegations, allnews, Islam and women, Iranian people, Human Interest, Politics, peace prize
Herta Müller 'has a psychosis', claims Romanian agent who spied on her
Timişoara :: Romania | 4 days ago
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Radu Tinu, who has admitted to spying on Müller as head of the secret police (or Securitate) in the Romanian city of Timisoara, where the Romanian-born German-speaking writer lived until 1987, told a newspaper she was suffering from mental delusion. "She...
Tags: Herta Müller, Romanian Information Service, Major Tinu, Thomas Peter/Reuters Radu Tinu, ceausescu regime, nobel prize, secret services, Timisoara, Romania, Timişoara, Counter-terrorism, Cold War, Herta Mￃﾼller, Radu, Adevￄﾃrul, Securitate, National security, Communist Romania
Iran denies seizing Nobel medal
Tehrān :: Iran | 4 days ago
Credibility Norway's foreign ministry said on Thursday that Ebadi's gold Nobel medal and her award diploma had been removed from her bank box and that her bank account, where the prize money was deposited, had been frozen. Ramin Mehmanparast, an Iranian foreign...
Tags: Shirin Ebadi, Iran, Dr. Ebadi, Norway, peace prize, nobel peace, Norwegian, prize medal, nobel medal, Foreign Ministry, Tehrān, Iranian people, Islam and women, Politics, Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, Defenders of Human Rights Center, Nobel Peace Prize, Women's rights in Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Social Issues, Adolf Butenandt, 1939, Carl von Ossietzky, Human rights in Iran, Geir Lundestad, Mehdi Karroubi, Gerhard Domagk, Behzad Nabavi, Aung San Suu Kyi, Basij, Nobel Prize
Obama will talk GLOBAL WARMING in COPENHAGEN
Barack Obama will head to Copenhagen on Dec. 9—the day before his Nobel Prize ceremony in Oslo—to advocate for a comprehensive global climate accord. The White House had vacillated on whether Obama should go, since no one expects a legally...
Tags: Barack Obama, Obama, Washington, usa, U.S, white house, oval office, president, copenhagen, oslo, nobel prize, denmark, global warming, climate, climate change, weather, weather change, greenhouse gases, 2012, Punahou School alumni, Carbon finance, Environment, allnews
LITERATURE/WOMEN: "When a Woman Wins, It is Still a Story"
Rome :: Italy | 6 days ago
Credibility The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 102 times to 106 Nobel laureates between 1901 and 2009...Meanwhile, the Man Booker Prize has been awarded to 15 women in 40 years. Herta M�ller and Hilary Mantel, were awarded two of the most prestigious...
Tags: nobel prize, woman wins, males academic, Italy, Rome, The Conservationist, Orange Prize for Fiction, Louise Doughty, G., Toni Morrison, Man Booker Prize
Africa: Citizens, Not Mo Ibrahim, Will Deliver Change in Their Leaders
Kampala :: Uganda | 10 days ago
Credibility Citizens, Not Mo Ibrahim, Will Deliver Change in Their Leaders Joe Powell 3 November 2009 column Kampala — The Mo Ibrahim Award for excellence in African leadership has in its short lifetime become one of the world's most talked about honours.
Tags: Mo Ibrahim, Uganda, Kampala, Punahou School alumni, Nobel Prize, Presidents of the United Nations Security Council, Barack Obama, Luo people, Human Interest
India can win Nobel for filth, says Jairam Ramesh
New Delhi :: India | 10 days ago
Credibility Environment minister Jairam Ramesh, known for courting controversy and making candid remarks, on Friday said if there was a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India would get it. “Our cities are the dirtiest cities of the world...The minister was talking...
Tags: Indian, Jairam Ramesh, nobel prize, Vijay Kelkar, finances commission, public sector, minister jairam, dirtiest cities, Finance Commission, Mr Kelkar, India, New Delhi, Environment, The Energy and Resources Institute, Economists, Dirt, Finance Commission of India, Action on climate change, Indian National Congress, Delhi, Climate change in India, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Rajendra K. Pachauri, Cleanliness, Climate of India, Dhaka, Waste management, Investment, Pollution, Jairam, Social responsibility
'Anti-Semites have the say in Budapest'
Budapest :: Hungary | 13 days ago
Credibility On the occasion of Imre Kertész's 80th birthday last Monday, the German newspaper Die Welt published an interview with the Nobel Prize-winning author ("Fateless", "Kaddish for an Unborn Child"). When the journalist mentioned how lucky the city of Berlin...
Tags: Imre Kertész, Hungary, Budapest, nobel prize, Berliner, semites having, metropolitan person, Imre, Kertￃﾩsz, Imre Kertￃﾩsz, Kaddish for an Unborn Child, Fateless, Social Issues
The 'accidental' scientist - Jamaica's own Nobel Prize nominee
Kingston :: Jamaica | 15 days ago
Credibility In the future, I will become a gynaecologist" and "I know I will be a horticultural engineer" are some of the introductory utterances students make on our local quiz shows. Some will achieve their goals; other won't, for various reasons. And there are...
Tags: Bertram Oliver Fraser-Reid, Clarendon College, Professsor Bertram Fraser-Reid, Bert Fraser-Reid, Jamaican National Foundation, nobel prize, Canada, Institute of Jamaica, Jamaica, Kingston, Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Bertram Fraser-Reid, Organists, Pianists, Education
GENDER: "Truly Exciting If the U.S. Could Ratify CEDAW" - Part 2
Rome :: Italy | 16 days ago
Credibility On its 30th anniversary, just seven U.N. member states continue to refuse to accept the only international instrument that comprehensively addresses women's rights within political, civil, cultural, economic and social life...It would be truly exciting...
Tags: gender equality, U.S, U.N. General Assembly, human rights, ratify cedaw, nobel prize, truly exciting, Italy, Rome, Discrimination law, United Nations Development Fund for Women, Reservation, Women's rights, Human rights instruments, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, Social Issues
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