The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on Friday to Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi. Mohammadi received the prize for “her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all,” the awards committee said. Mohammadi is currently in prison. “Her brave struggle has come at … Read more
Word that she had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace reached Narges Mohammadi in Evin Prison, the notorious Tehran “House of Detention” where the Iranian activist is serving a 10-year sentence. Mohammadi was also there last October, when the streets of cities and towns across Iran surged with ordinary citizens protesting the rule of … Read more
Comment on this storyComment DUBAI — The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Narges Mohammadi, an imprisoned Iranian human rights activist. She is the fifth person to receive the prize while incarcerated. Norwegian Nobel Committee Chair Berit Reiss-Andersen said the prize was awarded “for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and … Read more
Jailed human rights activist Narges Mohammadi, 51, has been awarded the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her fight against the oppression of Iran’s women and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all. Mohammadi was announced as this year’s laureate on Friday at 11:00 local time in Oslo, by Berit Reiss-Andersen, … Read more
The laureates of this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry have been officially announced, hours after their names were leaked in what appeared to be an inadvertently sent email. The winners, for achievements in the field of nanotechnology, are Moungi G. Bawendi from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Louis E. Brus from Columbia University and Alexei … Read more
Comment on this storyComment On Friday, the Norwegian Nobel Committee is set to award the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize, in a world increasingly beset by armed conflict, climate crisis and food insecurity. For Western audiences, the grinding war in Ukraine has dominated headlines, but with the prize going to Russia-linked figures for the past two … Read more
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No one expected the first Covid-19 vaccine to be as good as it was. “We were hoping for around 70 percent, that’s a success,” says Dr Ann Falsey, a professor of medicine at the University of Rochester, New York, who ran a 150-person trial site for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in 2020. Even Uğur Şahin, the … Read more
Up to date September 3, 2023 at 5:03 a.m. EDT|Revealed September 3, 2023 at 2:02 a.m. EDT Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky arrives at courtroom in Kyiv on Saturday. (Reuters) The Nobel Basis is not going to invite ambassadors from Russia and Belarus to this yr’s awards ceremony in Stockholm, reversing its earlier choice after backlash … Read more
Touch upon this storyComment The Nobel Basis reversed course on Saturday and stated it will not invite the ambassadors of Russia and Belarus to this yr’s award ceremony in Stockholm, after a choice to ask them again to the annual occasion drew objections in Sweden and Ukraine. Earlier this week, the muse which administers the … Read more
STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Basis on Saturday withdrew its invitation for representatives of Russia, Belarus and Iran to attend this 12 months’s Nobel Prize award ceremonies after the choice introduced a day earlier “provoked sturdy reactions.” A number of Swedish lawmakers stated Friday they might boycott this 12 months’s Nobel Prize award ceremonies within the … Read more