Obama’s Nobel premature: Iran

October 10th, 2009 Russian president congratulates Obama on NobelMOSCOW — Russia's president is congratulating President Barack Obama on winning the Nobel Peace Prize, saying the award will encourage further U.S.-Russian cooperation. Dmitry Medvedev says in a letter to Obama that the prize will serve as an incentive for further U.S.-Russian efforts to create a new climate in global politics.

October 10th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Barack Obama has not won the Nobel Peace Prize as a reward for his peacemaking efforts, rather, it has been bestowed upon him to encourage peace across the world, the Christian Science Monitor opines. The report quoted Gro Holm, the senior commentator on foreign affairs at the Norwegian Broadcasting Corp., as saying that the prize committee was probably trying to put pressure on him to deliver on the promise of greater international peace and stability.

October 10th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US Senator John McCain, who lost his presidential bid last year, said Americans should be happy that his campaign rival President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. "I think Americans are always pleased when their presidents are recognised by something of this order," McCain said Friday in broadcast remarks.

October 9th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday conveyed his wholehearted congratulations to US President Barack Obama for winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Manmohan Singh told reporters here that he had not heard of the news.

October 9th, 2009 Obama's daughters excited about dad's Nobel prizeWASHINGTON — Moments after President Barack Obama got the news about winning the Nobel Peace Prize, his excited daughters came to congratulate him. Eleven-year-old Malia and 8-year-old Sasha came to see their dad not long after White House press secretary Robert Gibbs telephoned Obama with the news, awakening him in the early morning hours.

October 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The "stunning surprise" of US President Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize 2009, was greeted at home with expressions of disbelief to praise for a "bold choice". "The stunning surprise announcement coming extraordinarily early in Mr.

October 9th, 2009 Analysis: Obama's Nobel honors promise, not actionWASHINGTON — The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama landed with a shock on the nation's capital. He won! For what? For one of America's youngest presidents, in office less than nine months — and only for 12 days before the Nobel nomination deadline last February — it was an astonishing award.

October 9th, 2009 OSLO - United States President Barack Obama has been surprisingly given the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 for his extraordinary efforts in strengthening international diplomacy and for taking landmark initiatives to create a nuclear-free world. Announcing the award here, an official of the Norwegian Nobel Committee said that Obama was yet to be informed about the award, and would receive the award on December 10 this year.

October 7th, 2009 LONDON - Indian origin senior scientist at the MRC Laborartory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2009 along with two others. The Nobel Committee announced on Wednesday that the Tamil Nadu born Ramakrishnan shares the Nobel Prize with Thomas E Steitz (US) and Ada E Yonath (Israel) for their "studies of the structure and function of the ribosome".

October 5th, 2009 STOCKHOLM - Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak of the US have won this year's Nobel Prize for Medicine, it was announced in Stockholm Monday. The three scientists solved a fundamental problem in biology on "how chromosomes can be copied in a complete way and how they are protected against degradation", the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute said.

September 24th, 2009 LONDON - Britain has ignored Iran's savage suppression of opposition in order to safeguard talks on its nuclear program, claimed the latter country's only Nobel Laureate and human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi. The Times quoted Dr.

August 9th, 2009 Nobel laureate urges Iran to release detaineesSEOUL, South Korea —Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi on Sunday urged Iran's government to release detained activists and citizens accused of involvement in the country's postelection unrest, saying the president must "listen to the people's voice." Hundreds of people in Iran have been detained following massive demonstrations protesting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's June 12 re-election. On Sunday, Iran's police chief acknowledged that some of the detained protesters were abused in custody, but said the death of some prisoners was caused by illness not torture.

July 13th, 2009 BONN - Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi called Monday for European nations to open direct talks with Tehran rather than criticise its policies from afar. "They would be able to prove this way that they are not just paying lip service to human rights but acting in pursuit of them," said Ebadi in Bonn during a visit to the offices of the broadcaster Deutsche Welle.

July 6th, 2009 WASHINGTON - For their summer vacation, the Obamas are reportedly headed to Martha's Vineyard. The trip, however, could come with some complications for the first family, reports Politico.

June 2nd, 2009 NEW YORK - New York's billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg has claimed that a dinner and Broadway undertaken by Barack Obama and his wife Michelle is a celebration of New York's affordable night life.I can't think of anything that is better as an advertisement for our tourism industry, for Broadway, for our restaurants, for saying that this is a safe city and an affordable city," Bloomberg said Monday. "The President doesn't get paid that much.