Iran Front Page - A Yemeni Nobel peace prize winner says she was fascinated by the friendly behaviour of Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif after she criticized the country for its role in their encounter, noting that it shows a big difference in thinking between Iranians and Saudis.
Tawakkol Karman, a female journalist supporting Yemens ...
RFERL - The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is set to be announced, with some suggesting the award could go to the architects of the landmark 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee isscheduledto make the announcement at 11 a.m. (0900 GMT/UTC) in Norway's capital, Oslo.
Observers have said the prestigious award could go to key figures ...
Alwaght- The Noble Peace Prize was first awarded in 1901 to Jean Henry Dunant, the Swiss social activist who founded the Red Cross, and Frederick Passy, the French economist who was one of the founders of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the chief organizer of the first International Peace Congress. The international prize was not only given to the ...
Juan Manuel Santos, the president of Colombia, was awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize for his "resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end."
The surprise announcement comes less than a week after Colombian voters delivered a shocking blow to the peace process, and the award notably excludes any leaders of ...
TEHRAN, Oct. 05 (MNA) With the date of announcement of names nominated for Nobel Prize on October 6 approaching, different media outlets are speculating what names would appear on the list of peace prize.
While Iran nuclear deal was undergoing intensively in 2014 and 2015, first guesses were shaped that a possible nuclear deal can bring those ...
Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who leaked classified documents shedding light on extensive US and UK government surveillance programs, will be the frontrunner for the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize, according to Peace Research Institute Oslo.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) in Norway projected former US National Security Agency ...
The winner of this years Nobel peace prize is to be named on Friday morning, putting an end to a period of speculation and volatile betting.Past experience, however, suggests that bookies odds are an unreliable guide: the Oslo-based prize committee has shown itself to be leak-proof, inscrutable and quite capable of springing surprises, such as the ...
Four prominent experts answer hypothetical questions about Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarifs nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize
The name of Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is on the lips of many at home and abroad these days, particularly after Time Magazine put the Iranian top diplomat on the list of its top 100 influential ...
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="690"] Malala Yousafzai (Reuters/Andrea De Silva), Kailash Satyarthi (AFP Photo/Bobby Bank)[/caption]
Human rights activists from Pakistan and India, Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi, have named as the joint winners of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, the awards committee announced in Oslo.
17-year-old Malala ...
The Nobel Peace Prize should be given to Israeli forces for their "unimaginable restraint" in their offensive against the blockaded Gaza Strip, says the Israeli envoy to the United States.
Israeli ambassador Ron Dermer made the appalling remarks at a pro-Israeli event in Washington on Tuesday.
The Israeli forces should be given the Nobel Peace Prize....
TEHRAN (FNA)- Mairead Maguire, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for her work in Northern Ireland, defended Iran's right of access to peaceful nuclear technology, and called for international inspection of Israel's atomic arsenals.
"Iran is entitled to have nuclear energy and power since it is a progressing nation and needs more energy," Maguire ...
OSLO: A former Norwegian minister nominated fugitive US intelligence leaker, Edward Snowden, for the Nobel Peace Prize on Wednesday in a letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
"He has contributed to revealing the extreme level of surveillance by nations against other nations and of citizens," former Socialist Left Party minister Baard Vegar Solhjell ...
[caption id="attachment_38691" align="alignright" width="187"] Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai speaks before the United Nations Youth Assembly at UN headquarters in New York on July 12, 2013.[/caption]
The Making of Malala:The story of Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai told by The Timess Adam B. Ellick, who made a 2009 documentary about her ...
TEHRAN (FNA)- A prominent Egyptian expert and journalist called on the international community to grant this year's Nobel Peace Prize to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani for his efforts to restore peace between Tehran and the West.
"Like US President Barack Obama who received the Nobel Peace Prize at the beginning of his presidency in October ...
A group of Russian activists and political scientists have indicated that they are officially proposing President Vladimir Putins nomination to get the Nobel Peace Prize for his moves to resolve the Syrian crisis.
One of the main sponsors of the move, State Duma MP Iosif Kobzon, told reporters that in his view Putin deserved the prize much more than ...
TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian legislator underlined the necessity for revoking the Nobel Peace Prize given to US President Barack Obama in 2009 due to his warmongering policies against other countries, specially Syria.
"The parliament will support any Iranian campaign to take back Obama's Nobel Peace Prize," Chairman of the parliament's Cultural ...