
Oct 15 - By Greg Bluestein, Associated Press Writer
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.

Oct 13 - By Ian MacDougall, Associated Press Writer
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.

Oct 13 - By Ian MacDougall, Associated Press Writer
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.

Oct 11 - By Shawn Pogatchnik, Associated Press Writer
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.
Oct 9 - By The Associated Press, Only on msnbc.com
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:
Oct 9 - By The Associated Press, Only on msnbc.com
— The committee does not release the names of any candidates and keeps records sealed for 50 years.

Oct 9 - By Karl Ritter, Associated Press Writer
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.
Oct 9 - By The Associated Press, Only on msnbc.com
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:

Oct 9 - By Tia Goldenberg, Associated Press Writer
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.

Oct 8 - By Karl Ritter, Associated Press Writer
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.
Oct 8 - By The Associated Press, Only on msnbc.com
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:
Oct 8 - By The Associated Press, Only on msnbc.com
Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize since 1980:
Oct 6 - By Doug Mellgren, Associated Press Writers
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.
Sep 23 - By The Associated Press, Only on msnbc.com
U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday and challenges leaders to take responsibility for challenges facing the world.

Sep 18 - By Paul Haven, Associated Press Writer
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.

Sep 15 - By Karin Laub, Associated Press Writer
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.

Jul 24 - By Donna Bryson, Associated Press Writer
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?

Jul 19 - By Karin Laub, Associated Press Writer
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.

Jun 29 - By Jerry Harkavy, For The Associated Press
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.
Jun 16 - By Matthew Lee, Associated Press Writer
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.

Jun 14 - By Tim Sullivan, Associated Press Writer
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.
May 11 - By Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press Writer
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.
May 5 - By Shawn Pogatchnik, Associated Press Writer
A dozen Afghan warlords-turned-lawmakers came to Dublin on Tuesday to explore the lessons of Northern Ireland peacemaking.

Mar 15 - By Shawn Pogatchnik, Associated Press Writer
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.

Mar 13 - By Shawn Pogatchnik, Associated Press Writer
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.