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Human rights activists from China and Russia are considered front-runners to win the Nobel Peace Prize next week, while betters are putting their money on an Italian, a Syrian or an Israeli for the literature award.
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Russian news agencies say Moscow’s MICEX (MY’sex) stock exchange has been shut down until Friday after opening with steep losses.
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U.S. and Japanese researchers are among the favorites to win the Nobel Prize in chemistry, but don’t expect any recent discoveries to get the nod.
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Wall Street’s woes extend far beyond Main Street and all the way to Law Street _ the hulking headquarters of the European Union.
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The PETA animal rights organization is targeting Armani in its latest anti-fur campaign.
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A rare Islamic crystal jug mistaken earlier this year for a cheap French claret pitcher has sold at auction for almost 3.2 million pounds ($5.6 million).
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Human rights experts on Tuesday expressed concern about a special facility holding suspected criminal asylum seekers in the mountains of southern Austria.
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A Romanian Cabinet minister was fired Tuesday after he used a government helicopter to make it to his wedding on time.
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Israel’s prime minister said Tuesday he received assurances that Russia would not allow Israel’s security to be threatened, but offered no indication he won...
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A committee of EU lawmakers approved an ambitious climate change plan Tuesday, resisting heavy pressure from lobbyists who sought to water down the bill because of the...
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Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Cabinet decided Tuesday to extend Germany’s military mission in Afghanistan for 14 more months.
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A Serbian court has freed a former diplomat suspected of helping a student facing assault charges in the United States flee to Serbia, a court official said Tuesday.
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The annual guessing game about who will get the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize focused this year on a possible human rights rebuke for China.
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A state-controlled newspaper said Wednesday that Myanmar’s military rulers were breaking no laws by holding pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate...
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Aung San Suu Kyi’s political party says Myanmar’s military leaders have freed 15 party members who were arrested for marching to the home of the detained...
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The U.N.’s top human rights body has performed poorly since it was created almost two years ago, Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi said Monday, but she urged...
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Nearly 200 individuals and organizations have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, the second-highest number ever, a Nobel official said Wednesday.The secretive...
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Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Polish president Lech Walesa was undergoing tests for heart failure and being evaluated as a potential heart transplant recipient,...
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Head of the United Nation’s IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), R.K. Pachauri from India is among those likely to get the nobel peace prize for...
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Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a global issue that is decades old inconsistency and still doesn’t look settled. Games for Change, a non-profit organization...
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‘The greatest blunder done in the 106 years of Nobel foundation that Mahatma Gandhi did not receive Nobel Peace Prize’ this is statement made by Geir...
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Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi micro-credit pioneer, and his Grameen Bank have won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Yunus and his bank will share the prize.
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