Danish police said on Saturday they shot and wounded a Somali man with al-Qaeda links when he tried to break into the home of a cartoonist.
Donor nations pledged a preliminary ,8-billion in assistance to Sudan on Wednesday, aiming to help bolster a 2005 north-south peace deal in the African country still torn by violence in its western Darfur region. Sudan had said it needed ,1-billion up to 2011, on top of -billion in humanitarian aid.
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/ 10 December 2007
Climate campaigner Al Gore collected the Nobel Peace Prize on Monday and said it was time to stop waging war on the Earth and make peace with the planet. The former United States vice-president shared the 2007 peace prize with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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/ 13 October 2006
Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank he founded won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for grassroots efforts to lift millions out of poverty that earned him the nickname ”banker to the poor”. Yunus (66) set up a new kind of bank in 1976 to lend to the very poorest in his native Bangladesh.