In Chicago for a gathering of Nobel Peace Prize winners, Mikhail S. Gorbachev and other historic figures dropped in on more than a dozen public schools throughout the city.

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Nobel Peace Prize-winner Mohamed ElBaradei says he is withdrawing from Egypt’s presidential race in protest at the country’s military leadership.

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The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize is presented jointly to three women at a ceremony in Oslo

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Eboo Patel, Founder and President of the Interfaith Youth Core , believes that religion is a bridge of cooperation rather than a barrier of division. He’s inspired to build this bridge by his faith as a Muslim, his Indian heritage, and his American citizenship. He has spoken about this vision at places like the TED conference, the Clinton Global Initiative , and the Nobel Peace Prize Forum, as well as in college and university campuses across the country. He writes about his work regularly in The Washington Post , USA Today, and The Huffington Post . Recently Patel sat down with AslanMedia to talk about his work.

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(Originally published Oct. 7) Leslie Knope has never won a Nobel Prize. Sadly, neither has Ron Swanson. But it turns out there is a connection between one of the recently announced winners of the Nobel Peace Prize and NBC’s “ Parks and Recreation .” Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf — the country’s first female president — was named as one of three Nobel Peace Prize recipients this year, for her efforts to establish peace and bolster women’s rights in Liberia. And Sirleaf happens to be the aunt of Retta, the sassy, speed-dating master Donna Meagle on “Parks and Recreation.” (Retta’s full name? Retta Sirleaf.) Read full article > >

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NAIROBI, Kenya — Wangari Maathai, the first African woman recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, died after a long struggle with cancer, the environmental organization she founded said Monday. She was 71. One of Kenya’s most recognizable women, Maathai won the Nobel in 2004 for combining environmentalism and social activism. She was the founder of the Green Belt Movement, where over 30 years she mobilized poor women to plant 30 million trees. Read full article > >

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In the weeks before the uprising in Egypt, former U.N. official and Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei met with a 10-member steering committee, which planned a 100-member shadow legislature and laid out a game plan for a governmental transition…

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2010 Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo might not be the only prize winner behind bars when he receives the award: The Norwegian politician Snorre Valen has nominated WikiLeaks for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. “By disclosing information about corruption, human…

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After eating a bowl of oatmeal and drafting ten talking points, Senator Bernie Sanders (Ind., Vt.) spoke for nine hours in opposition to the tax-cut deal struck between President Obama and congressional Republicans. “We should be embarrassed,” he said, “that we are for one second talking about a proposal that gives tax breaks to billionaires while we are ignoring the needs of working families, low-income people and the middle class.” WP CBS NYT Mark Madoff, son of Bernard L. Madoff, hanged himself in his Manhattan apartment while his toddler slept in a nearby bedroom; court documents filed last year suggest that Mark Madoff made almost $67 million through his father’s Ponzi scheme. NYT WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested in London on charges of sexual assault. “That sounds like good news to me,” said U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates. AP via WP State Department cables leaked this week revealed that Saudi media executives, over coffee in a Jeddah Starbucks, extolled the power of American television in the fight against Islamic extremism, while Saudi diplomats expressed their admiration for the movies Insomnia and Michael Clayton. Guardian Taymour Abdelwahab, a Swedish citizen, set off a car bomb and then blew himself up in Stockholm on Saturday, injuring two in what authorities believe was a botched attempt at a larger attack, and imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Online discussion of the chair symbolizing his absence from the ceremony in Oslo prompted authorities in China to censor the phrases “empty chair,” “empty seat,” “empty stool” and “empty table” from the country’s major social networking sites. AFP Telegraph Telegraph . . .

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China describes the awarding of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo as a “political farce”.

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Serbia reverses its decision to boycott the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo in Oslo.

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BEIJING – Chinese authorities displayed growing frustration Thursday with the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to imprisoned intellectual Liu Xiaobo, tightening their grip on activists and blocking some Web sites and broadcasts.

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Winners of the Nobel peace prize prevented from picking it up

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The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to an imprisoned Chinese dissident is not an attempt to enforce Western values on China, organisers say.

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The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to a Chinese dissident is not an attempt to enforce Western values on China, the organisers insist.

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