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The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to someone in the Middle East three times, and the Middle East is still in flames. Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar got it in 1991, and is still under house arrest. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev won in 1990, then ordered a bloody crackdown in the Baltic Republics as he sought to save the Soviet Union from collapse.
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Alfred Nobel created the peace prize more than a century ago, but it is the Norwegian Nobel Committee that decides who gets it.
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Russia&#39;s permanent representative to the United Nations, Andrey Denisov, left, shakes hands with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan while Kenyan Nobel Peace prize winner Wangari Maathai, right, look on after they signed the Kyoto Protocol on global warming.
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Iranian attorney and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi, left, and Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere pose for the media prior their breakfast meeting in Oslo, Tuesday, Oct.Comment
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JOHANNESBURG -- Kenyan activist Wangari Maathai, who launched a powerful grass-roots environmental movement nearly 30 years ago by planting trees in her backyard, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday for work that also involved empowering women and fighting government corruption.
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IHURURU, Kenya Oct. 8, 2004 - When Wangari Maathai got word she had won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, she was campaigning to protect Kenya&#39;s forests and distributing food to villagers suffering from
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The 2004 Nobel prizes will be announced between October 4 and 11, the Nobel Foundation said, with US president George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair in the running for the prestigious Peace Prize.
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Tom Cruise and Oprah Winfrey are to host the annual Nobel Peace Prize concert in Norway on Saturday. Joss Stone and Andrea Bocelli will sing at the event in honour of this year&#39;s peace prize winner, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai, 64.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has been given a new and important meaning for the 21st century. For the first time, the honor has gone to an African woman, and to an environmentalist.
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Speculation grows ahead of Friday's announcement of the 2004 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Royalty and scientists, business leaders and diplomats gathered in the capitals of Sweden and Norway on Friday for twin ceremonies honoring the year's Nobel Prize winners.
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Royalty, scientists, business leaders and diplomats began gathering in the capitals of Sweden and Norway on Friday for the traditional twin ceremonies honoring the year's Nobel Prize winners from Kenya, ...
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Silhouettes, representing the 2,982 children confirmed killed by by cluster bombs, crowd a snowy square outside the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway, on Wednesday.Comment
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The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Al Gore and to a United Nations panel for their work on global warming.
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As American scientists again won a majority of the Nobel Prizes this year, European officials said they're trying hard to close the trans-Atlantic gap in scientific research.
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To inspire a new generation of peace activists, educators are turning to such figures as Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Costa Rica President Oscar Arias and the Dalai Lama.
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Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai said she hopes being the first environmentalist to win the prize will help others understand that the struggle to protect the Earth's resources is linked to the promotion of peace.