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Japan congratulates Obama on peace prize win
Tokyo - Japan welcomed the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama on FridayPrime Minister Yukio Hatoyama he was really pleased at Obama's win and wanted to congratulate him from the heart, the Kyodo news agency reported. ...
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Zimbabwe's Tsvangirai says Obama 'deserves' Nobel
Valladolid, Spain - Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday congratulated US President Barack Obama for winning the Nobel Peace Prize, saying he deserved it. Tsvangirai, who had himself been tipped for the Nobel, was speaking in the S...
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German foreign minister praises Obama award
Berlin - Germany's outgoing foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, interpreted the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama on Friday as a way of urging the world to work step by step to peace and nuclear disarmament. In a writ...
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Report: Obama 'humbled' by peace prize
Washington - US President Barack Obama was humbled by receiving the Nobel peace prize on Friday, broadcast reports said. Obama was awakened with the news after the 5 am announcement, White House sources told NBC and CNN. ...
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Nuclear test ban chief: Prize strengthens Obama on disarmament
Vienna - The head of the international nuclear test ban organization, Tibor Toth, on Friday said the Nobel Prize for Peace awarded to Barack Obama would strengthen the US president on his arduous path towards nuclear disarmament. Toth, the Executiv...
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Kenya's Wangari Muthai: Obama prize is great inspiration
Washington - Kenya's environmental activist Wangari Maathai, who won the Nobel peace award in 2004, Friday called US President Barack Obama'sreceipt of the prize an extraordinary inspiration. Obama, whose father was Kenyan, was pointing the way to...
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Herta Mueller wins Nobel prize for literature - Update
Stockholm - Romanian-born Herta Mueller of Germany has won this year's Nobel prize for literature, the Swedish Academy announced in Stockholm on Thursday. The Academy's citation said that with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, ...
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Brown congratulates Obama with private message
London - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has sent Barack Obama a private message congratulating him on the award of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, a Downing Street spokeswoman said Friday. She did not elaborate on the form or content of the messa...
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Lech Walesa: Nobel committee seeking to 'encourage' Obama
Warsaw - Polish Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lech Walesa expressed some surprise Friday at the awarding of this year's prize to US President Barack Obama, suggesting the Nobel committee did so to encourage the White House leader in his actions. What? ...
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ElBaradei: Obama has rekindled hope for word peace
Vienna - International Atomic Energy Egency (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei said Friday that US President Barack Obama deserved to win the Nobel Prize for Peace because he had rekindled hope for world peace and had taken the lead on nuclear non-prolif...
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Incredulity over Obama's peace prize award
Washington - Incredulity followed the Nobel Peace Prize award Friday for US President Barack Obama, less than a year after his historic election and as he grapples with two wars. The move was seen as an expression of high expectations by the world th...
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BACKGROUND: Nobel Committee's citation for 2009 Peace Prize
Oslo - The Norwegian Nobel Committee's citation when awarding the 2009 Nobel Prize for Peace to US President Barack Obama: The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for hi...
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