WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can now add a peace prize to his list of achievements, along with allegations of sex crimes and the publishing of top-secret U.S. diplomatic cables. Assange was awarded the Sydney Peace Foundation’s gold medal in London…

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Assange Gets Australian Peace Prize

The Nobel committee prepares to name jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo this year’s Peace Prize winner, despite continuing anger from Beijing.

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China anger as Nobel award looms

Winners of the Nobel peace prize prevented from picking it up

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China steps up its campaign to try to discredit the Nobel committee, ahead of the Peace Prize ceremony to honour jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo.

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China raises anti-Nobel rhetoric

Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway will co-host this year’s Nobel peace prize concert in Norway with Oscar-winning actor Denzel Washington.

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Hathaway to host Nobel peace gig

South Africa’s Cape Town Opera turns down an appeal from Nobel peace prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu to call off a tour of Israel.

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Opera snubs Tutu Israel tour plea

How China took the news of dissident’s peace prize

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China’s most widely renowned dissident won the Nobel peace prize Friday from a cell where he’s serving 11 years in prison. Liu Xiaobo is currently in the midst of his sentence for co-authoring Charter 08, a call for democratic reforms in China. He was…

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Chinese Prisoner Wins Nobel Peace Prize

A week of Nobel Prize announcements comes to a climax on Friday with the unveiling of the winner of the Peace Prize, perhaps the world’s most prestigious award.

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Who will win the Nobel Peace Prize?

A group of Chinese dissidents has urged the committee not to award the Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo.

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Unusual Opposition to a Favorite for Nobel

An Irish Nobel Peace Prize laureate was refused entry into Israel on Tuesday because of her participation in an aid flotilla to Gaza in June, a spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry said.

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Nobel winner denied entry into Israel