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Chavez backs China over Nobel for jailed dissident

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez expressed solidarity with China's government Sunday over the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a jailed Chinese dissident.

Celebrating Nobel, woman arrested for splashing champagne

A woman celebrating the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a Chinese dissident has been charged with assault for accidentally splashing champagne on a security guard outside the Chinese central government's liaison office in Hong Kong.

Nobel Prizes honor a record 5 women in 2009

MALIN RISING and LOUISE NORDSTROM AP 12/10/2009
Obama garners rare unified praise for Nobel speech

WASHINGTON — In a rare of display of unity, lawmakers and pundits from across the US political spectrum on Friday offered praise for President Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.

Nobel Prizes honor a record 5 women in 2009

STOCKHOLM — A record five women were among the 13 people awarded Nobel Prizes on Thursday, including a writer who depicted life behind the Iron Curtain and researchers who showed how chromosomes protect themselves from degrading.

Obama accepts Nobel Peace Prize as he defends the need for war

Christi Parsons Los Angeles Times 12/10/2009

Nobel jury speaks out in defense of Obama prize

IAN MacDOUGALL and KARL RITTER AP 10/14/2009
Obama accepts Nobel Peace Prize as he defends the need for war

Reporting from Oslo - President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize here today, acknowledging the irony of winning it as a wartime president and calling his own accomplishments "slight" in comparison to past winners.

Nobel jury speaks out in defense of Obama prize

OSLO — One judge noted with surprise that President Barack Obama "didn't look particularly happy" at being named the Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Another marveled at how critics could be so patronizing.

Republicans both assail, applaud Nobel award

Kathy Kiely USA Today 10/11/2009

Nobel Peace prize may weigh heavily on Obama

Greg Miller Los Angeles Times 10/09/2009
Republicans both assail, applaud Nobel award

WASHINGTON — To Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is an opportunity to exploit conservative outrage and raise funds. To John McCain, the GOP's 2008 presidential nominee, it's cause for national pride.

Nobel Peace prize may weigh heavily on Obama

Washington - The gold medallion given to recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize doesn't come with a ribbon, but the award could still end up being a weight around President Obama's neck.

US President Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

Wojciech Moskwa Reuters 10/08/2009
Nobel winner Barack Obama: 'I am surprised and humbled'

US President Barack Obama says he did not expect to win the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to curb nuclear arsenals around the world.

US President Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

U.S. President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for giving the world "hope for a better future" and striving for nuclear disarmament.


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