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Norwegian mass killer, Anders Behring Breivik, has told police he planned to bomb US President Barack Obama as he received his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo in 2009, The Telegraph reports.
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It's that time of the year where the famous Nobel Peace Prize committee selects a few individuals who have contributed to world peace. This year, there are more than 200 candidates nominated for the esteemed award.
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The winner of this years annual Chinese Confucious Peace Prize has been named as Vladimir Putin. A special ceremony will be held in Beijing in December to bestow the prestigious award.
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The Chinese government is criticizing U.S. President Barack Obama for holding a 45-minute meeting with the Dalai Lama, a move purported to be seriously damaging to diplomatic relations.
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The Bolivian President and a Russian political leader have launched a campaign to revoke Obama's honour after the US attacked Libya.
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An Army investigation of the breach of US government documents released to Wikileaks found “serious leadership failures” and “gross negligence” in Pvt Bradley Manning’s supervision in Iraq, an official familiar with the investigation has said.
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WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing website currently involved in a behind-the-scenes case of human rights issues with the US State Department, is among the nominees for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize and was called “a natural contender” for the prize.
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Fifteen past winners of the Nobel Peace Prize sent a letter to Chinese President Hu Jintao and other G20 leaders, urging China's government to release the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Liu Xiaobo.
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China has condemned in the strongest terms the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to pro-democracy activist Liu Xiaobo, saying that it went against the aims of the award and would harm the country's relations with Norway.
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The currently imprisoned Chinese democracy activist Liu Xiaobo was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo today, a fact greeted by the Chinese government with the expected harsh criticism.
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South Africa's four Nobel Peace Prize winners are being honoured in a musical way with a quartet.
The Yemeni Nobel Peace Prize Winner Tawakul Karman has visited a refugee camp in Turkey for displaced Syrians.
Michelle Yeoh plays the Burmese Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi in The Lady
Organisers have announced the judging panel for a new £1m prize that has been billed as a "Nobel prize for engineers".
Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996, dies aged 88.
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Chinese dissidents in Hong Kong demanding release of Liu Xiaobo.
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