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International Peace Bureau; “EU Nobel peace award unlawful”
The Geneva-based peace network has more than 300 member organizations and was itself the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1910. They accused the committee of having redefined the prize, which now...
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Several EU leaders opt out of Nobel peace bash
Fewer than a dozen European leaders have so far accepted an invitation to attend next month’s Oslo ceremony to award the Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union, this year’s controversial winner, the...
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Desmond Tutu: EU not worthy to win Nobel Peace Prize
Three Nobel Peace Prize laureates, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, have contested the awarding of this year’s prize to the European Union, saying the EU contradicts the values associated with the...
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Nobel Foundation turns to hedge funds to restore prize money.
When Alfred Nobel bequeathed his fortune to peace prizes in 1895, he restricted investments to “safe securities” – but then, even he hadn’t anticipated the latest financial crisis. WT news feed
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Censorship is a must, says China’s Nobel winner
Mo Yan, who has won this year’s Nobel Prize in literature, says censorship is as necessary as checks at airport security bertb news feed
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US plaintiff ‘unknown’: Nobel assembly
The assembly that awards the Nobel Medicine Prize said on Friday it had never heard of a stem cell researcher who has filed a US lawsuit against it for allegedly crediting his work to this year’s...
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Norwegian protesters say EU Nobel Peace Prize win devalues award.
More than 50 organizations plan to march in Oslo on Sunday to protest of the Nobel Committee’s award of the 2012 Peace Prize to the EU at a time of debt crisis. WT news feed
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Malala, teen champion of girls’ rights, nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Her name was put forward by three members of the Norwegian parliament from the ruling Labor Party on their website Friday, which was the deadline for nominations. WT news feed
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Manning among record number Nobel Peace Prize nominees
A record number of Nobel Peace Prize nominations were received this year, which saw US soldier and Wikileaks whistleblower Bradley Manning being nominated for a third time. WT news feed
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Are you Bradley Manning? High-profile Americans take to YouTube to back Nobel...
Actors Russell Brand, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Wallace Shawn join Oliver Stone, Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello, and journalists Chris Hedges, Matt Taibbi and a slew of others who lend...
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Professor Espouses 2+2=4, Lauded with Accolades And Wins Nobel Prize For Real...
I like Professor Shiller and respect his work. Really, I do, but… Massive bubbles, the sort of the proportion of the 2008 crisis, are nigh impossible to miss if you can add single digits successfully...
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Santelli Stunned As Nobel Winner Fama Explains Fed Unwind “Is No Big Deal”
If ever there was a few minutes of television to confirm the deep-seated disconnect between reality and the ivory-tower academics pulling the levers behind the curtain, CNBC’s Rick Santelli just...
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‘Autonomous ‘killer robots’ could soon replace drones’ – Nobel Peace Prize...
What was science fiction a couple of decades ago is now everyday reality. But it’s not only computers and smartphones — the progress has brought us new war machines — unmanned drones striking from the...
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