Bangladesh gives Nobel Peace winner hero's welcome
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Muhammad Yunus, banker to the poor and 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, returned to a hero's welcome in the Bangladesh capital on Tuesday after a visit to Norway to pick up the award.
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OSLO - Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai, who yesterday received the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo, said protecting the environment was vital to promote peace and democracy.
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus helped launch a pop music record and video on Tuesday that will raise money to build eye hospitals in Bangladesh.
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South African police handed back the Nobel Peace Prize medal won by Archbishop Desmond Tutu to his wife on Saturday after it was stolen from his Johannesburg home this month.
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The arrest of Bangladesh's most recent prime minister brought reactions of shock, praise and uncertainty from ordinary citizens on Tuesday, in a country struggling for political stability.
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OSLO - The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to a Kenyan environmentalist last week added a new green dimension to the prize, but critics accused the Nobel committee of betraying a century-old focus on resolving armed conflicts.
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OSLO: Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai, who yesterday received the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo, said protecting the environment was vital to promote peace and democracy.
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WASHINGTON -- This is a requiem for Nobel Peace Prize winner Yasser Arafat, the fallen leader of the benighted but unbowed Palestinian people.
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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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The Norwegian Nobel Committee picked the  winner of the 2004 Peace Prize from a record field of 194  candidates on Tuesday with the U.N. nuclear watchdog and its  head, Mohamed ElBaradei, tipped as favorites.
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(AGI) - Rome, Italy, 8 October. - The Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the Kenyan, Wangari Maathai, founder and head of &quot;Green Belt&quot; constitutes &quot;a choice of great importance that tends to raise the importance
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Bangladeshi Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus announces plans to form his own political party.
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The launch of a political party by Bangladesh's Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus has taken most politicians by surprise but is being welcomed by ordinary citizens desperate for change.
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The Bangladesh government on Thursday announced a three-day national mourning in memory of Palestine President Yasser Arafat, who died this morning.
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Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai receives the Nobel Peace Prize from Nobel chairman Ole Danbolt Mjos in Oslo City Hall.
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NEW DELHI, AUGUST 30: India has formally offered Bangladesh help in investigating the assassination attempt on former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina some 10 days ago, in which 20 people, including grassroots leaders of her Awami League party, and nearly 200
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Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize today for her work as leader of an organization that has planted more than 30 million trees across Africa.