”Nobel Peace Prize winner” News

New Concern for Iranian Rights Defender

WASHINGTON, Dec 31 ( OneWorld.net ) - 01 1 2009 11:09AM (...more)

'Extraordinary' Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

OSLO (AFP) – US President Barack Obama sensationally won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday less than a year after he took office with the jury hailing his "extraordinary"
10 10 2009 8:48AM (...more)

Suu Kyi 'not satisfied' with junta talks: spokesman

YANGON (AFP) - Myanmar 's detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is "not satisfied" with her talks with the nation's junta, which after three months have yielded few results, her spokesman said Wednesday.
01 31 2008 11:54AM (...more)

Nobel Prize winners to examine world food crisis

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - More than three dozen Nobel Prizewinners will meet behind closed doors and "fortress-like"security next month in the ancient Jordanian city of Petra todiscuss solutions to the world's problems, including the foodcrisis affecting many nations.
05 8 2008 8:49AM (...more)

Bloodshed hits Guatemala election campaign

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Gunmen have attacked candidatesand an activist for Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu 'spolitical party three times in the last week in Guatemala 'sbloodiest election race since a civil war ended a decade ago.
09 3 2007 11:58AM (...more)

Kenya's Christmas comes early in election cash blitz

NAIROBI (Reuters) - In Kenya , elections mean money. Fromcash to T-shirts to new roads, and the lucrative business ofhelping aspirants by fair means or foul, Christmas has comeearly in the east African nation.
12 21 2007 11:37AM (...more)

Emirates airline executive rubbishes Gore's climate film

SINGAPORE (AFP) - A top executive of Dubai -based carrier Emirates on Thursday rubbished Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore 's Oscar-winning documentary on climate change, saying he did not believe the film's scientific theory on global warming.
11 1 2007 5:32PM (...more)

Gore says carbon emission cuts essential

OSLO, Norway - Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore said Sunday that reducing carbon dioxide emissions is essential to the "survival of our civilization" — and reiterated he had no plans to run for president.
12 11 2007 7:22PM (...more)

Gore: US blocking climate talks progress

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore on Wednesday accused the U.S. of blocking progress at U.N. climate talks in Bali but said a breakthrough was possible in the final days of the conference.
12 12 2007 11:34PM (...more)

Indian human rights group wins Norwegian prize

OSLO (Reuters) - A Norwegian human rights body, which has four times anticipated the Nobel Peace Prize winner with its own award, chose on Thursday an Indian group fighting for the rights of casteless people to receive its annual prize.
09 20 2007 8:44PM (...more)