Nobel Peace Prize
This file photo taken on May 2, 2012 shows Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi after she attended a session at the lower house of parliament during which she read her parliamentary oath in Naypyidaw. Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will visit Bangkok next week on her first trip overseas in more than two decades, her party said on May 24, 2012.'She will go to the World Economic Forum in Thailand,' said Nyan Win, a spokesman for the Nobel Peace Prize winner's National League for Democracy. The event is being held from May 30 to June 1.
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Myanmar's Suu Kyi says she's too busy for Facebook
-- Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is bullish on democratic reform, but she's not so sure about Facebook.The Nobel Peace Prize winner -- who was held under house arrest as a political prisoner for much of the past 22 years without even a telephone 4:49 AM Read more »
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ElBaradei returns to Egypt politics with new party
we never imagined the conditions we are and the tragic transition we are living today."ElBaradei, who received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work as head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency, said a new organized political group is necessary to unite Egyptians, Read more »
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Actor Sean Penn receives award for work in Haiti
-- Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn has accepted an award from a gathering of Nobel Peace Prize laureates for his work in earthquake-ravaged Haiti.Penn received the 2012 Peace Summit Award on Wednesday afternoon in Chicago, where Peace Prize laureates have been Read more »
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HEAD Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi
by-elections.During a news conference on the lawn of her crumbling lakeside residence in Yangon, the 66-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate said government officials were involved in some of the irregularities and that they go "beyond what is acceptable for Read more »
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Opinion: U.S. should cut nuclear stockpile
president of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the organization that recieved the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize . Daryl G. Kimball is executive director of the independent Arms Control Association in Washington. This week at an international Read more »
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Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Leymah Gbowee: "Sex Strikes Help Good Men"
Who said sex and politics don't mix? Led by Leymah Gbowee, a young mother, Liberian women went on a sex strike to end the country's brutal civil war. They were successful: in 2003 warlords agreed to end the violence. Last year Gbowee won a Nobel Peace Pr 9:05 AM from The Huffington Post Read more »
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Suu Kyi calls on investors to help Myanmar
We do not want investment to mean more possibilities for corruption, the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate said. We do not want investment to mean greater inequality. And we do not want investment to mean greater privileges for those already privileged. Su 5:07 AM from New Kerala Read more »
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Myanmar's Suu Kyi Says She's Too Busy for Facebook
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is bullish on democratic reform, but she's not so sure about Facebook. The Nobel Peace Prize winner — who was held under house arrest as a political prisoner for much of the past 22 years without even a telephon 4:21 AM from ABC News Read more »
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Suu Kyi asks US, China not to squabble over Myanmar
Aung San Suu Kyi addressed business leaders at the World Economic Forum on East Asia in Bangkok on Friday morning, a major appointment in her first trip abroad in 24 years. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate's speech touched on several key issues, appealing 4:11 AM from Deutsche Welle Read more »
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Obama spews only rhetoric on Vietnam
To the Editor: One of the key themes that Barack Obama ran on was his relentless attack on the interrogation techniques that effectively saved American lives after 9/11. Obama promised that he was going to shut down Gitmo as well. We now find out that Ob 1:58 AM from Syracuse.com Read more »
