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Nobel Peace Prize winner hears news in surgery as wild cheers erupt

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 05 10:21 PM

Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege was operating on Friday when he learned he had won the Nobel Peace Prize, as crowds at his Panzi hospital erupted into ecstatic celebrations. Read more »

Congolese Mukwege, Iraq's Murad win 2018 Nobel Peace Prize

Nerijus Adomaitis and Terje Solsvik, Reuters
Posted at Oct 05 06:47 PM

Denis Mukwege, a gynecologist helping victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Nadia Murad, a Yazidi rights activist and survivor of sexual slavery by Islamic State, won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Read more »

Global leaders, or grassroots campaigners? Nobel Peace Prize wide open

Hazel Ward, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 05 11:38 AM

The annual Nobel prize-giving week reaches its peak as the five-member Norwegian committee ends the guessing game by announcing this year's winner. Read more »

Aung San Suu Kyi won't be stripped of Nobel Peace Prize

Reuters
Posted at Aug 30 02:03 AM

STAVANGER, Norway - The Nobel Peace Prize to Aung San Suu Kyi will not be withdrawn in the light of a United Nations report that said Myanmar's military carried out mass killings of Muslim Rohingya, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Wednesday. Read more »

'Guiding force for good': World mourns loss of Kofi Annan

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 18 09:53 PM

Here are some of the tributes Read more »

Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize, says South Korea's Moon

Hyonhee Shin, Reuters
Posted at Apr 30 06:37 PM

SEOUL - South Korean President Moon Jae-in said U.S. President Donald Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the standoff with North Korea over its nuclear weapons program, a South Korean official said on Monday. Read more »

Hong Kong pro-democracy activists 'honoured' by Nobel nomination

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 02 11:32 PM

There are growing concerns that certain liberties, including freedom of speech, are being eroded in the former British colony. Read more »

Duterte meets ex-Polish leader Walesa

Dharel Placido, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 24 08:34 AM

President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday met with former Polish president and Nobel peace prize awardee Lech Walesa. Read more »

The Day in Photos: 11 December 2017

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 11 08:15 PM

Here are the big stories today in photos. Read more »

Anti-nuke campaigners win Nobel Peace Prize

NTB Scanpix/TBerit Roald via Reuters
Posted at Dec 11 08:01 PM

Leader of the Nobel Committee Berit Reiss-Andersen, Hiroshima survivor Setsuko Thurlow and Executive Director of ICAN (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) Beatrice Fihn, are seen at the City Hall on the occasion of the award ceremony of the Nobel Peace Prize to ICAN, in Oslo, Norway on Sunday. Read more »

Nobel peace laureate group urges nuclear powers to adopt ban-the-bomb treaty

Gwladys Fouche, Reuters
Posted at Dec 11 12:16 AM

The leader of the group that won this year's Nobel Peace Prize on Sunday urged nuclear nations to adopt a United Nations treaty banning atomic weapons in order to prevent "the end of us". Read more »

ICAN: staunch campaigners for an end to nuclear weapons

Nina Larson, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Oct 06 05:40 PM

The Geneva-based ICAN has for the past decade been sounding the alarm over the massive dangers posed by nuclear weapons and campaigning for a global ban. Read more »

Anti-nuclear campaign ICAN wins Nobel Peace Prize

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 06 05:34 PM

ICAN won the Nobel Peace Prize for its decade-long campaign to rid the world of the atomic bomb as nuclear-fuelled crises swirl over North Korea and Iran. Read more »

Nobel's shining stars who lost their luster

Pierre-Henry Deshayes, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Sep 29 10:00 PM

Praised to the skies and bearing great hopes, they went on to disappoint the world: as the case of Aung San Suu Kyi shows, Nobel Peace Prize winners have not always lived up to expectations. Read more »

Chinese Nobel laureate's ashes scattered at sea

Reuters
Posted at Jul 16 01:11 AM

Deceased Chinese Nobel Peace Prize-winning dissident Liu Xiaobo's ashes were scattered at sea on Saturday, Liu's brother said, in a move described by a family friend as an effort to erase any memory of him. Read more »

Struck by liver cancer, Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo dies

Ben Blanchard, Reuters
Posted at Jul 14 12:09 AM

BEIJING - Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo died on Thursday from multiple organ failure, the authorities said, having not been allowed to leave the country for treatment for late-stage liver cancer as he wished. Read more »

German, US doctors visit ill Chinese Nobel winner: hospital

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 08 08:38 PM

German and US doctors visited China's cancer-stricken Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo on Saturday, the hospital where he is receiving treatment said in a statement.  Read more »

Nobel laureate Suu Kyi to visit PH

Dharel Placido, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 24 11:54 AM

MANILA – Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi will visit the Philippines for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit, an official said Monday. Read more »

Duterte meets Nobel laureate Suu Kyi

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 20 08:47 PM

NAY PYI TAW - (UPDATE) President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday met Myanmar’s de facto leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. Read more »

Colombian President Santos wins Nobel Peace Prize

Reuters
Updated as of Oct 07 05:48 PM

OSLO - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a surprise after Colombians voted "No" to an agreement he signed with Marxist rebels to end 52 years of war. Read more »