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Former President Jimmy Carter said Thursday that President Barack Obama deserves his Nobel Peace Prize based on his achievements and the promise of an aggressive agenda that he's still working to fulfill.
One judge noted with surprise that President Barack Obama "didn't look particularly happy" at being named the Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Another marveled at how critics could be so patronizing.
Members of the Norwegian committee that gave Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize are strongly defending their choice against a storm of criticism that the award was premature and a potential liability for the U.S. president.
The Irish National Liberation Army, an IRA splinter group responsible for some of the most notorious killings of the Northern Ireland conflict, renounced violence Sunday and signaled it could hand over weapons soon to disarmament officials.
There are four women and one man on the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Members are elected by Norwegian lawmakers so the panel reflects the political makeup of Parliament. The five members are:
— The committee does not release the names of any candidates and keeps records sealed for 50 years.
The announcement drew gasps of surprise and cries of too much, too soon. Yet President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday because the judges found his promise of disarmament and diplomacy too good to ignore.
An award that generates as much interest as the Nobel Peace Prize is bound to be surrounded by myths. Geir Lundestad, secretary of the secretive committee that awards the prize, outlines for The Associated Press some of the most common misunderstandings:
Residents of a West Bank village with no electricity have been helped out of the darkness by unlikely benefactors — a group of Israelis who installed solar panels and wind turbines to illuminate the Palestinians' makeshift homes.
President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, citing his outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear proliferation.
OSLO — An award that generates as much interest as the Nobel Peace Prize is bound to be surrounded by myths. Geir Lundestad, secretary of the secretive committee that awards the prize, outlines for The Associated Press some of the most common misunderstandings:
Chinese dissidents are leading the odds of winning the Nobel Peace Prize this year, the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre and the 60th since the establishment of the People's Republic of China.
U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday and challenges leaders to take responsibility for challenges facing the world.
Cuba's official press said Friday that a Colombian rock star's nerves got the better of him before last weekend's historic "peace concert" in Havana, causing an outburst against authorities in which he threatened to cancel the show.
Jerusalem divided by a series of fences, trenches and walls. The West Bank and Gaza linked by a sunken highway. Palestinians and Israelis trading land that would require 100,000 Jewish settlers to move.
Some of the shack dwellers of Jeffsville recently had an idea: Why not stage a march to demand government housing some had been awaiting for 18 years?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he wants to make "economic peace" with the Palestinians, and the first fruits are already being seen in eased Israeli restrictions that are stoking a retail and entertainment boom in the West Bank.
For the 17th year in a row, Israeli and Palestinian teenagers have come together at a summer camp in the western Maine woods to make new friendships, understand each other's dreams and fears, and possibly lay a groundwork for peace in the Middle East.
President Barack Obama is sending his special Middle East peace envoy to Europe next week for talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu aimed at quickly restarting negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, two U.S. officials said Tuesday.
The former rebels pass their days on an old research farm now set behind a tall barbed-wire fence, a place of flimsy wooden buildings, weed-filled roads and laundry strung from the volleyball net.
The U.N. Security Council sent a strong message to Israel on Monday that the international community is demanding "urgent efforts" to create a separate Palestinian state and achieve an overall Mideast peace settlement.
A dozen Afghan warlords-turned-lawmakers came to Dublin on Tuesday to explore the lessons of Northern Ireland peacemaking.
Graffiti on the Catholic side of town condemn Sinn Fein politicians as British stooges. Alongside black-stenciled images of masked gunmen, slogans proclaim allegiance to IRA dissidents who fatally shot a policeman a few miles away.
When Irish Republican Army dissidents gunned down their first British security forces in more than a decade, they hoped to provoke a steely security crackdown and tit-for-tat attacks that would drag Belfast back into the bad old days.
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Arkansas Police Use Taser on 10-Year-Old Girl - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News - FOXNews.comNow we tase 10 year old girls...where do we draw the line? A father tasered his child and was charged with child abuse. What is the difference?
Turkey Plans to Ease Restrictions on Kurds and Help End Decades of Conflict - NYTimes.comTurkish want peace with Kurdish and they will allow Kurdish language and Kurdish TV. Unfortunately, Kurdish and military does not like what Erdogan will do.
Zionism and Post-Holocaust Christian Theology: A Jewish PerspectiveAnalysis of the Israel–Palestine conflict tends to focus on politics and history. But other forces are at work, related to beliefs and feelings deeply embedded in Judeo-Christian tradition.
On National Public Radio yesterday, I heard a Muslim woman who is a reformist there say that they had tried and succeeded last year in introducing saffron production as an alternative to poppies.
U.S. Adviser to Kurds Stands to Reap Oil Profits Peter W. Galbraith, an influential former American ambassador, is a powerful voice on Iraq who helped shape the views of policy makers like Joseph R. Biden Jr. and John Kerry.
MIDEAST: New Face of Palestine, Now ShowingWhat may save the Obama peace effort is 'the Jenin Way'.
World Freedom Day 2009 - 20th Anniversary of Reagan's achievementI wish I'd posted this the day before yesterday - on World Freedom Day... Americans for Tax Reform is an organization that has been especially successful, in promoting the Reagan Legacy. Please check out this link, from ATR. Celebrate VICTORY over communism!!
Recently, I've been invited to speak at several community forums. Here's a glimpse into the message I'm sharing this week… "Those we take time off to honor seldom took time off."
Veterans - Honoring the Call of DutyAn Afghanistan vet's poignant perspectives on Veteran's Day - in the aftermath of the assault on Ft. Hood. Why U.S. military service matters in war or peace. And how you can help today.
Turkey to announce PKK peace planTurkey is set to announce details of a plan to end a conflict in the mainly Kurdish south-east of the country.
Amb. Michael Oren's Speech at the 2009 GAThis is Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren giving his speech to the General Assembly of Jewish Organizations on Nov. 9th, 2009
New Yorker: The Gaza Invasion, What Really HappenedEvery opportunity for peace in the Middle East has been led to slaughter, and at this isolated desert crossing, on June 25, 2006, another moment of promise culminated in bloodshed.
The truth about the Middle East is buried beneath the headlinesA feisty Robert Fisk takes on the "White House-State Department-Pentagon-CNN-Downing Street-Defence Ministry-BBC military-political-journalistic complex..."
"The Art of War" Should Be Used to Promote Lasting Peace, Development: OfficialArt of War used to promote lasting peace.
Government = CorruptionIf you have wondered why the government always seems to do the bidding of the rich and powerful, check this article out and get a clue.
REDDIT! Jon Stewart needs your support!Wednesday night, Jon Stewart hosted two Israel/Palestine peace activists. The reaction from the pro-Israel crowd has been BRUTAL and it's important we show our support and appreciation for the honest discussion of the issues.
The Berlin Wall: what really made it fall | csmonitor.comCandles and prayers! Twenty years ago something totally unexpected happened when the walls of communism came down. Enjoy a little added bit of the story and be encouraged in your struggle for world peace. Remember, "we are the people".
Free Speech and Religion - Worth Fighting ForWith all the news around Afghanistan helicopter crashes and Obama's decision NOT to decide yet about sending more troops, the media seems to have overlooked a story that one soldier - and blogger - Jeff Courter - comments on here.
John F. Kennedy: Inaugural Address. U.S. Inaugural Addresses.I was reading this a couple of days ago and wondered to myself...how would he feel about the parties today... or they about him?
Abbas to Obama: I'll quit, there's no chance for peace with Netanyahu Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told U.S. President Barack Obama that he intends to resign his post, Channel 10 television reported on Monday.
Awakening to the MotherMy thesis is that once upon a time we lived in peace and harmony on Mother Earth, in gratitude for the gift of life. Although that time has been erased from our conscious memory and most of our history books, it did exist. We see the desperate state of our world today.
Hamas Hamas top dog: "Jerusalem's fate will be decided with jihad and resistance, and not negotiations"Following a conflagration of violence at Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Sunday, Hamas political leader Khaled Meshal declared that "Jerusalem's fate will be decided with jihad (holy war) and resistance, and not negotiations."
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