Tag: Nobel Peace Prize
State visit ‘renews’ Chinese friendship
Norway's King Harald V got some support from Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday, both in the literal and figurative sense. Xi reportedly slowed...
King to speak up while in China
Norway's King Harald V was winning praise after he said he would bring up human rights concerns during a meeting with China's authoritarian president...
More rape victims are seeking help
Just days after the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced a Peace Prize that boosts awareness of sexual violence, comes news that rape remains a major...
Nobel spotlights sexual violence
The Norwegian Nobel Committee turned the spotlight on the horrors of sexual violence, especially as a weapon in war, when it awarded this year's...
Nobel Prize wins praise of its own
This year's winners of the Nobel Peace Prize were being widely viewed as especially worthy of it, even by one of the biggest critics...
Royals are finally invited to China
The Chinese government kept Norwegian officials in suspense, but have finally followed through on a promised invitation to King Harald and Queen Sonja. The...
Nobel speculation embraces ‘MeToo’
With two new members, one of them decribed as "a hard-core realist," the Norwegian Nobel Committee is believed to have engaged in particularly "hefty...
Obama tickets sold for NOK 32,000
Former US President Barack Obama was due to arrive in Oslo on Wednesday, under vastly different circumstances than when he made a triumphant landing...
Chinese Embassy bashes Nobel leader
UPDATED: Berit Reiss-Andersen, a Norwegian attorney who leads the Norwegian Nobel Committee, is relieved and glad that the widow of Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo...
Nobel Institute drops concert
After years of mounting an internationally televised concert in connection with the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, the Norwegian Nobel Institute says it's taking "temporary...
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