Ten Nobel Peace Prize winners have appealed to Saudi Arabia’s king and crown prince to show mercy and halt the executions of 14 young people sentenced to death for participating in protests in 2012.
2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo died in Chinese custody at age 61 on Thursday, reportedly of multiple organ failure due to liver cancer. His treatment is a devastating indictment of China’s human rights abuses and should bring increased international attention to how the authoritarian regime in Beijing silences dissenters.
A museum dedicated to Yasser Arafat, including the room where the Palestinian leader spent much of his final years, will open on Wednesday ahead of the anniversary of his death.
Thousands of Israelis are gathering at the Tel Aviv square where Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated to mark the 21st anniversary of the former prime minister’s death and remember his call for peace.
Israel unveiled Friday a headstone at the grave of ex-president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres who died last month, at a ceremony attended by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, protesting the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize going to neighboring head of state Juan Manuel Santos, has announced the launch of the “Hugo Chávez Award for Peace and Sovereignty of the Peoples.”
Ingrid Betancourt, a former Colombian presidential candidate who spent six years as a hostage of the FARC, said Friday that she believed FARC leaders deserved to share the Nobel Peace Prize with this year’s winner, President Juan Manuel Santos.
On the eve of the announcement of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, various experts and committee members predicted a Peace Prize for Colombia’s president, Juan Manuel Santos, was “out of the question” thanks to the Colombian people rejecting an amnesty deal for the FARC.
Both Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and FARC terror group chief “Timochenko” have been dropped from the shortlist of Nobel Peace Prize candidates after the nation rejected a peace deal that would have allowed the FARC to evolve into a political party.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party published a cartoon of late president Shimon Peres heading for hell a day before his funeral, which was attended by Abbas.
TEL AVIV – President Barack Obama has ordered all U.S. flags at the White House and all federal property across the country and abroad to be flown at half-mast memory of late statesman Shimon Peres.
TEL AVIV – A day and a half after the death of Israeli statesman Shimon Peres and not a single Arab leader has said they would join countless world leaders – including President Barack Obama – to attend his funeral.
TEL AVIV – Gaza-based terror group Hamas urged Palestinians to hold a “Day of Rage” on Friday, during the time that former statesman Shimon Peres will be buried in Jerusalem.
TEL AVIV – President Barack Obama and other world leaders will arrive in Israel for the funeral of former prime minister Shimon Peres on Friday, a spokesman for Israel’s foreign ministry said Wednesday.
TEL AVIV – President Barack Obama joined statesmen from all over the world in eulogizing former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who passed away at the age of 93 on Tuesday night, calling him “the essence of Israel itself.”
Israeli ex-president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres has seen a serious deterioration in his health and was “fighting for his life” Tuesday after suffering a stroke earlier this month, a source close to him said.
TEL AVIV – Former President Shimon Peres’ condition remains serious but saw “real improvement” Thursday morning, his physician and son-in-law said.
Activist and writer Elie Wiesel, the World War Two death camp survivor who won a Nobel Peace Prize for becoming the life-long voice of millions of Holocaust victims, has died, Israel’s Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem said on Saturday.
The BBC reports: The UN says it is appalled at a further 10-year prison sentence imposed by Iran on a prominent human rights activist, already serving six years in jail. Nargis Mohammadi was found guilty of several different charges including
The Jerusalem Post reports: Palestinians in Ramallah have launched a worldwide campaign on Tuesday to nominate jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti for the Nobel Peace Prize – despite his life imprisonment for five terrorist murders. The campaign is being sponsored by
Security conscious Americans are hard-pressed to be optimistic after reading the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Worldwide Threat Assessment for 2016.
TEL AVIV – For the first time ever, Egyptian schools will teach students about the historic 1979 peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. Israel’s Army Radio procured a copy of a new Egyptian history textbook that includes an entire chapter devoted to the
More than half a million people have put their names to an online petition calling for Greek islanders on the frontline of Europe’s migrant crisis to be awarded the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize. In a similar move, noted academics from
Jerusalem (AFP) – Former Israeli president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres was rushed to hospital on Sunday after feeling chest pains and being diagnosed with an “irregular heartbeat”, a spokeswoman said. Peres will stay overnight at a Tel
To Obama, the Geneva Convention applies to stateless terrorists–who are not parties to the convention, and are not lawful combatants–but not to U.S. sailors captured and detained by Iran at gunpoint
JERUSALEM (AFP) – Former Israeli president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres was making an “excellent” recovery on Friday after treatment for a heart problem, his surgeon said. “His condition is excellent, the widening of the artery was successful,” professor
JERUSALEM (AFP) – Former Israeli president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres, 92, was hospitalised Thursday for cardiovascular problems and is in stable condition after a medical procedure, his spokesman said. Peres was hospitalised “after experiencing chest pains,” the spokesman
The Iraqi government has nominated Yazidi Nadia Murad Basee Taha, who was abused as a sex slave by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), for the Nobel Peace Prize.
As Christians around the world prepare for the canonization of Mother of Teresa of Calcutta, Salon Magazine has responded as one might expect: by smearing the Nobel laureate who spent her entire adult life serving the poorest of the poor.
Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed the disgraced and alleged corrupt FIFA President Joseph “Sepp” Blatter deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.
Wikileaks co-founder and lefty hero Julian Assange “should receive the Nobel Peace Prize”, former MP George Galloway has claimed during an appearance at the Cambridge Union Society (CUS). The maverick left-winger and former Labour and Respect Party MP made the
Oct 20 – Twelve Nobel Peace Prize winners have called on British Prime Minister David Cameron to call publicly for the release of their fellow laureate, Liu Xiaobo, and his wife Liu Xia during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to
OSLO, Norway – Tunisia’s National Dialogue Quartet won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its contribution to building democracy after the Jasmine Revolution in 2011, the Nobel Committee said. The quartet is made up of the Tunisian General Labour Union
Contessa Brewer of CBSN, CBS News’ live streaming video news channel, reported the former secretary of the Nobel Peace Prize committee, from 1990-2015, Geir Lundestad, now says President Barack Obama’s 2009 prize was a “mistake.” In his new book Geir
The ex-secretary of the Nobel Committee says in a soon-to-be-released book that awarding the Peace Prize to Barack Obama in 2009 did not have the desired effect.
A recently released memoir revealed new details about the former Director of the Nobel Institute and his regret for agreeing to hand over the famed Peace Prize to President Barack Obama during his first days in office.
Nobel Peace Prize Winner President Barack Obama has become the largest international arms dealer since the end of WWII, according research done is a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). With more than $160 billion in arms sales during his first five years as President, Obama has outpaced the former leader in this category, President Richard M. Nixon.
Senior Taliban commander Ehsanullah Ehsan, one of the world’s best-known terror leaders, has been located after listing “jihad” as a skill on his LinkedIn account.
