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Nobel Peace Prize, less than a year after taking office in America. The U.S. leader, who ascended to the presidency in January (09), follows in the footsteps of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa and Al Gore in receiving the honour.
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Reuters US envoy asks Israeli, Palestinian sides to send envoys to US to discuss renewal of peace talks Ali Waked He told Abbas that the Obama administration was deeply committed to the two-state solution and the renewal of the peace process. ...
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Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is among favourites to win the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday from a record field including a Chinese dissident and an Afghan human rights activist, Norway's NRK television said. The prize, widely viewed as the...
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Finland's former president Martti Ahtisaari won the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday for a decades-long career of peacemaking around the globe from Namibia to Kosovo. The Norwegian Nobel Committee chose Ahtisaari to receive the US$1.4 million prize from a...
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Finland's ex-president has been the UN special envoy for talks on the final status of Kosovo and mediated a 2005 accord in Indonesia's Aceh province. Mr Ahtisaari told Norwegian broadcaster NRK he was "very pleased and grateful" to receive the award.
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The latest mission from the international community has ended in embarrassment -- not for the despotic generals who rule Burma (renamed Myanmar by its illegitimate regime) -- but for the United Nations and its ineffectual efforts. It seems no one who...
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Participants in the three-day "Global Article 9 Conference to Abolish War" held in Chiba prefecture included Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire of Northern Ireland and Beate Sirota Gordon, an original drafter of the Japanese Constitution...
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