Three women who have campaigned for rights and an end to violence in Liberia and Yemen, including Liberia’s president, have won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Arab Spring or EU? Speculation ahead of the Nobel peace prize announcement on Friday is split after cryptic comments by the award committee’s chair.
A record 241 nominations were submitted for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize and the Norwegian jury has now begun the secretive process to select a winner.
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/ 2 February 2011
Anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks has been nominated for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian politician behind the proposal said on Wednesday.
A Chinese group awarded its own "peace prize" on Thursday, just a day before the Nobel Committee was set to honour jailed China dissident Liu Xiaobo.
China unleashed a fresh diatribe on Tuesday ahead of the ceremony honouring Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo.
China has asked Japan not to attend a Nobel Peace Prize ceremony honouring Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.
China faced fresh criticism on Thursday over its angry reaction to dissident Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel Prize.
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/ 11 October 2010
Once SA was the kind of country whose leaders were awarded Nobel Peace Prizes. Now we side with governments who crack down on those who get them.
The Nobel Peace Prize for Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo showed the West cannot stomach the idea of China’s rise, state media said on Monday.
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/ 11 October 2010
More than 30 Chinese intellectuals have been detained or placed under house arrest in a crackdown to stifle celebration of the Nobel Peace Prize.
The announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize provoked a furious reaction from authorities, who warned that the decision would hurt relations with Norway.
Jailed Chinese pro-democracy activist Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for decades of non-violent struggle for human rights.
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/ 10 December 2009
A humble US President Barack Obama said on Thursday that others may be "more deserving" of the surprise Nobel Peace Prize.
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/ 16 October 2009
An important lesson President Jacob Zuma is learning during the resurgence of service delivery protests is that a charm offensive can go only so far.
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/ 27 February 2009
A record 205 candidates are in the running for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, the Nobel Institute said on Friday.
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/ 10 October 2008
Former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his work on conflict resolution.