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Justin Bieber Wins Top Prize at American Music Awards

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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Canadian
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Canadian
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Taylor
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Usher
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Usher also took home the prize for best soul/R&B artist.  <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">American
Music Award nominees are selected based on sales and airplay, and fans chose
the winners by voting online. ---VOA News<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Justin Bieber Wins Top Prize at American Music Awards

An 18-year-old has won the top prize at the American Music Awards. Canadian Justin Bieber won artist of the year Sunday in Los An...

India: Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Presents National Awards on Technology Day 2012

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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The former President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam addressing<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">at the celebration of the Technology Day 2012,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">in New Delhi on May 11, 2012. Photo© PIB<o:p></o:p></span></div></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">New Delhi (PIB) --- </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Former President of India, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam gave away National Awards on Technology to the industrial/individual concern for developing indigenous technology here today. The Awards are instituted by Department of Science & Technology and Department of Bio-Technology to the successful commercialization of indigenous technology by an industrial/individual concern.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The National Awards have two components: (i) to the industrial concern, which has successfully commercialized indigenous technology and (ii) to the developer / provider of such technology. Each component carries a cash Award of Rs. 10.00 lakhs along with the Trophy. In addition to this Technology Development Board (TDB) has introduced cash Award of Rs. 5.00 lakhs to be given to maximum three SSI units which have successfully commercialized a technology based product. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The National Awards of Rs. 10.00 lakhs for the year 2012 was awarded to M/s Scanpoint Geomatics Limited, Ahmedabad, Gujarat for indigenous development and commercialization of Integrated GIS and Image Processing Software: IGiS developed jointly in collaboration with Space Applications Center, ISRO, Satellite, Ahmedabad. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Award to SSI units 2012 of Rs. 5.00 lakhs each was awarded to two companies, M/s Zen Technologies Limited, Sanathnagar, Hyderabad and M/s Diaonics Automation (I) Pvt. Limited, Nasik Road, Nasik for developing and commercialization of product. The DBT award was given to M/s Perfint Healthcare Pvt. Ltd., Chennai. The award for the best technology business Incubator was given to SIDBI Innovation and Incubation Centre (SIIC), IIT Kanpur. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The former President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam presented the <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">National Awards on Technology, at the celebration of the Technology Day 2012,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> in New Delhi on May 11, 2012. The Union Minister for Science and Technology <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">and Earth Sciences, Vilasrao Deshmukh is also seen. Photo© PIB<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
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India: Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Presents National Awards on Technology Day 2012

The former President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam addressing at the celebration of the Technology Day 2012, in New Delhi on May 11, ...

India: Vice President Presents Dada Saheb Phalke Award 2011 to Renowned Bengali Actor Soumitra Chatterjee

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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Elaborating further, the Vice President said selection of two films in regional languages as the Best Feature Films, was an achievement for regional film industry. It was an under-appreciated fact that over 80 per cent of the films certified for public exhibition were regional films. Complimenting Dada Sahab Phalke Award winner, the Vice President said the partnership of  Soumtira Chatterjee with Satyajit Ray could be counted as a memorable director-actor combination in the history of cinema. The Vice President also lauded the 11 children who had won the Best Child Artists Awards for the 59th National Film Awards.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Speaking on the occasion, Minister for Information & Broadcasting, Smt. Ambika Soni said that the year 2013 would be observed as the Centenary year of Indian Cinema. India’s first full length feature film “Raja Harishchandra” was released on 3rd May 1913 at Mumbai’s Coronation Cinema. To commemorate the release of India’s first film, the National Film Awards Ceremony would now on be held on 3rd of May every year.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Minister added that cinema had always been the social mirror of Indian society, acting as a catalyst and believing in the power of ideas, human relationships and the plurality of Indian culture. She stated that cinema reflected the vast diversity and the intrinsic plurality of the Indian society.  These awards have encouraged young film makers to believe in the “Essence of Good and Meaningful Cinema”. Elaborating further, the Minister stated that regional languages continued to be the mainstay of Indian cinema and that the National Film Award was an acknowledgement of good cinema irrespective of language barriers and budgetary constraints. The recognition given to offbeat film reflected the depth of national awards on the one hand and at the same time would encourage film makers in many other regional languages to make quality films.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">On the occasion, the Minister mentioned that few projects were being undertaken by the I&B Ministry to commemorate the centenary celebrations of Indian Cinema.  The first related to the setting up of the “National Heritage Mission”, to digitalise and restore all audio and video tapes of Indian films for which over Rs.500 crores have been set aside in the XII Five Year Plan. The second project pertained to the setting up of the Museum of Indian Cinema. It would be housed in the Films Division Complex in Mumbai. The Heritage building of Gulshan Mahal, a popular filming location would be restored by December, 2012 and the new museum building would be ready before May, 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Complimenting the winners, the Minister said that through their ingenuity, skills & talent, they had provided entertainment which has woven together the people of this country into one proud nation.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The highlights of the 59th National Film Awards are as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The top honour in the Feature Film category,  the Best Film  is shared by  films Deool (Marathi)  produced by Abhijeet Gholap & directed by Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni  and Byari (Byari language) produced by T.H. Althaf Hussain & directed by Suveeram.  The award carries Swarna Kamal and cash prize of Rs. 2, 50,000/-.  In Non-feature film category thetop honour, Best Film goes to And We Play On (Hindi & English) directed and produced by Pramod Purswane .  The awards carriesSwarna Kamal and Cash prize of Rs. 1, 50,000/-.  In Best Writing on Cinema category the Swarna Kamal goes to the book titled R.D. Burman– The Man, The Music written by Anirudha Bhattacharjee & BalajiVittal, published by Harper Collins India. Whereas Manoj Barpujari fromAssam has been awarded Best Film Critic.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In Feature Film category, five films have won three awards each. These Films are The Dirty Picture (Hindi), Balgandharva(Marathi), Anhe Ghorey Da Daan (Punjabi), Deool (Marathi)  &Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbo Na (Bengali).  Six films have won two awards each. These are Chillar Party (Hindi),  Azhagarsamiyin Kuthirai(Tamil), Aaranyakandam (Tamil), Phijigee Mani (Manipuri) , ZindagiNa Milegi Dobara (Hindi) & Game (Hindi). <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Best Actor award goes to Girish Kulkarni for film Deool(Marathi) and Best Actress to Vidya Balan for the film The Dirty Picture (Hindi). Azhagarsamiyin Kuthirai (Tamil) won the award for Wholesome Entertainment, Chillar Party (Hindi) won Best Children Film, Best Director to  Gurvinder Singh for Punjabi  film Anhe Ghorey Da Daan , Best Singer to Anand Bhate (Male)  for Marathi film Balgandharva andRoopa Ganguly (Female) for the Bengali film Abosheyshey . Kumararaja Thiagarajan has won the Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut film of a Director.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In the Non-Feature film category, three films have won two awards each.  The Film Tiger Dynasty has won the Best Environmental Film & Best Cinematography awards.  Awards for Best Direction and Best Editing have been taken away by the film. There is Something in the Air.  FilmPanchakki has been awarded Best Short Fiction and Best Music Direction.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The number of entries in all the three broad sections of awards ----Feature Films, Non-Feature Films and Best writing on Cinema have been increasing year by year.  The number of entries for 2011 stood at 186 in the feature films category, which is the highest in the history of the National Film Awards.  Last year, 161 entries were received in this category. Entries in the non-feature films category have also steadily rising and this year 156 entries as compared to 113 last year.  More and  more authors and writers are now sending their entries for awards in Best Writing on Cinema category.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

India: Vice President Presents Dada Saheb Phalke Award 2011 to Renowned Bengali Actor Soumitra Chatterjee

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</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white;">Two women from <st1:country-region w:st="on">Liberia</st1:country-region> and one from <st1:country-region w:st="on">Yemen</st1:country-region> who fought injustice, oppression and sexual violence against women were awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Saturday at a ceremony in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Norway</st1:country-region>'s capital, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Oslo</st1:place></st1:city>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white;">Facing a standing ovation of admirers, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Yemeni women's rights advocate Tawakkul Karman were handed their prestigious medals in the lavishly decorated <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Oslo</st1:place></st1:city> city hall.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white;">Norwegian Nobel Committee president Thorbjoern Jagland told the women they represent the struggle for “human rights in general and of women for equality and peace in particular.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white;">Mrs. Sirleaf became Africa's first democratically elected female president in 2005, and has been applauded for her efforts to secure peace and strengthen the position of women in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Liberia</st1:country-region></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white;">Leyman Gbowee, also from <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Liberia</st1:place></st1:country-region>, helped end her country's 14-year civil war by encouraging women to participate in a series of non-violent demonstrations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white;">Tawakkul Karman, an activist and journalist in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Yemen</st1:country-region></st1:place>, is the first Arab woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, and at 32, is the youngest person to receive the award. She is credited for her leading role in the struggle for women's rights and for democracy and peace in her country, which has been wracked by demonstrations and violence this year.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white;">The three women will share an award of nearly $1.5 million. ---VOA News<o:p></o:p></span></span></div></div>

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UN hails awarding of Nobel Peace Prize to three women’s activists

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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa’s first female elected head of State; Leymah Gbowee, a Liberian peace activist; and Tawakkul Karman, a pro-democracy activist from Yemen are the joint winners of this year’s prize.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Nobel judges, announcing the decision today, cited their “non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peacebuilding work.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Speaking in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:state>, Mr. Ban said the award could not have been better chosen.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">“It underscores the vital role that women play in the advancement of peace and security, development and human rights,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">“I myself have met women who have been the victims of sexual violence. I have seen for myself women’s leadership power in building and sustaining peace. And I have heard the voices of women calling for justice and democracy in the Middle East, <st1:place w:st="on">North Africa</st1:place> and beyond.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Describing the winners as “three inspirational women of courage and vision and commitment,” the Secretary-General said advancing the cause of women will be one of his top priorities during his second term in office.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia (UNMIL) also welcomed today’s announcement and offered its congratulations to the three winners.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Ms. Johnson Sirleaf is running for re-election as her country’s President, with the polls set to take place on Tuesday, and in a statement UNMIL stressed that “the elections are for the Liberian people to decide at the ballot box.”---UN News<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

UN hails awarding of Nobel Peace Prize to three women’s activists

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2011 Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Trio of Liberian, Yemeni Women

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqw1PpV7KEnFmpzIMgM8YZkuElbxh60Ww9RWWkn1DT5TkIJAnDJAlMh0TXm5qCEZ1hqJRzE4AsQoVmm4qV3ikQtjuJZJMb0rlxnGY0Wg4TsW72ZrHyQ0S6pPGnzC9GtEPx_0hLK7iWtD8/s1600/Nobel-Peace-Prizes-230.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqw1PpV7KEnFmpzIMgM8YZkuElbxh60Ww9RWWkn1DT5TkIJAnDJAlMh0TXm5qCEZ1hqJRzE4AsQoVmm4qV3ikQtjuJZJMb0rlxnGY0Wg4TsW72ZrHyQ0S6pPGnzC9GtEPx_0hLK7iWtD8/s200/Nobel-Peace-Prizes-230.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Yemeni women's rights advocate Tawakkul Karman.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">The Norwegian Nobel Committee made the announcement Friday in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Oslo</st1:place></st1:city>, saying the three women will split the coveted award for "their nonviolent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Committee Chairman Thorbjoern Jagland praised the work of the three recipients, saying that "we cannot achieve lasting peace in the world unless women obtain the same opportunities as men."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<tr>   <td style="padding: 0in 0in 0in 0in;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 4.8pt; mso-element-frame-vspace: 3.0pt; mso-element-left: right; mso-element-top: middle; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';">                              </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 14.5pt;">Karman of Yemen first Arab woman to win Nobel Peace Prize<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 4.8pt; mso-element-frame-vspace: 3.0pt; mso-element-left: right; mso-element-top: middle; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';">                              </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 14.5pt;">Mother of three from flashpoint city of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Taiz</st1:city></st1:place> a key figure in anti-government   protests against President Ali Abdullah Saleh<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-element-anchor-horizontal: column; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 4.8pt; mso-element-frame-vspace: 3.0pt; mso-element-left: right; mso-element-top: middle; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';">                              </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 14.5pt;">Leader of Women Journalists Without Chains human rights group</span><span style="font-size: 14.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td>  </tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"></span>Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, 72, became <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>'s first democratically elected female president in 2005. The Nobel Committee praised the Liberian leader for her efforts to secure peace, promote economic and social development and strengthen the position of women.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">In an exclusive VOA interview with James Butty, Sirleaf said she is humbled by the award.  She said it is an award for all the Liberian people, given what they've gone through - 13 years of civil war, the peace process, and democratic elections.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">The Liberian leader, in a close re-election campaign leading up to Tuesday's voting, said the Nobel is recognition of "many years of struggle for justice, peace and promotion of development" in her country.  She said "credit goes to the Liberian people."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Thirty-nine year-old Leymah Gbowee, also from <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Liberia</st1:place></st1:country-region>, helped to end her country's civil war by encouraging Christian and Muslim women to participate in a series of sit-ins and non-violent demonstrations. In 2002, Gbowee mobilized Liberian women to participate in a "sex strike" until the violence ended. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">She said the award is "a Nobel for African women," adding that there is "no way that anyone can minimize our role anymore."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Meanwhile, 32-year-old activist and journalist Tawakkul Karman was praised for <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">playing a "leading part in the struggle for women's rights and for democracy and peace" in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Yemen</st1:country-region></st1:place>. A leading "Arab Spring" activist in her country, Karman told reporters after winning the prize that she dedicated it to the "youth of the revolution in Yemen," saying it was a victory in her country's uprising against President Ali Abdullah Saleh. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">The committee said it hopes the prize will help bring an end to the "suppression of women that still occurs in many countries."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">The three women will share an award of nearly $1.5 million, which they will receive at a ceremony in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Oslo</st1:place></st1:city> on December 10.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Last year, the Nobel committee awarded the peace prize to imprisoned Chinese dissident writer and activist Liu Xiaobo, angering the Chinese government. Liu is serving an 11-year prison sentence for what <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region> says is "subverting state power."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Past winners include U.S. President Barack Obama in 2009, former Vice President Al Gore in 2007 and former President Jimmy Carter in 2002.  The 2001 prize was split between the United Nations and then Secretary-General Kofi Annan.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">The prize was created by Swedish scientist and industrialist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite. ---VOA News<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

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Swedish Poet Awarded 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature

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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The jury said Thursday that Transtromer was honored "because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality." <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Transtromer will receive $1.5 million for winning the Literature Prize, the fourth of this year's Nobel Prizes.<span>  </span>It follows awards for medicine on Monday, physics on Tuesday and chemistry on Wednesday. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Royal</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Swedish</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Academy</st1:placetype></st1:place> of Sciences will name the winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.<span>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The Nobel Prizes were created by Alfred Nobel, a wealthy Swedish industrialist who invented dynamite.<span>  </span>An award for economics will be announced October 10. The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in 1901. ---VOA News<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

Swedish Poet Awarded 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature to Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer, 80. The jury...

2011 Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to Israeli scientist

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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><st1:city w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">STOCKHOLM</span></st1:city><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"> (RIA Novosti) - The Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2011 has been awarded to Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman for the discovery of quasicrystals, the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Royal</st1:placename>  <st1:placename w:st="on">Swedish</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Academy</st1:placetype></st1:place> of Sciences said on Wednesday.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">"Contrary to the previous belief that atoms were packed inside crystals in symmetrical patterns, Shechtman showed that the atoms in a crystal could be packed in a pattern that could not be repeated," the academy said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Shechtman is a professor at Israel Institute of Technology in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Haifa</st1:place></st1:city>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Last year the prize was awarded to Richard Heck, Akira Suzuki and Ei-Ichi Negishi for developing tools to synthesize carbon-based molecules found in nature, which paved the way for new medicines and plastics.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The prize in each nomination is worth 10 million Swedish kronas (1 million euros). The award ceremony is to be held in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Stockholm</st1:place></st1:city> on December 10, the day of founder Alfred Nobel's death (1833-1896).<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

2011 Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to Israeli scientist

STOCKHOLM (RIA Novosti) - The Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2011 has been awarded to Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman for the discovery of q...

2011 Nobel Prize in Medicine to Remain Unchanged

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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">The Nobel Foundation in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Stockholm</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Sweden</st1:country-region></st1:place> has announced that the 2011 Nobel Prize for Medicine will remain unchanged despite the death of one of the three laureates, Ralph Steinman.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The decision was handed down late Monday following an emergency meeting after it was learned that the Canadian-born Steinman died on Friday following a lengthy battle with pancreatic cancer. The foundation met to deal with what it called the unprecedented event.<span>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Steinman, Bruce Beutler of the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region> and Jules Hoffmann of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Luxembourg</st1:place></st1:country-region> were awarded the prize earlier in the day for their work increasing understanding of the immune system, which could lead to curing cancer and other diseases.<span>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The foundation's statutes say work produced by a person since deceased can not be awarded.<span>  </span>However, the foundation interpreted the rule to mean the Nobel Prize could not deliberately be awarded posthumously. Since the decision to award the prize to Steinman was made in good faith under the assumption that he was alive, the laureates will remain unchanged.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Beutler and Hoffmann had been scheduled to split half the nearly $1.5 million prize money, while Steinman was to receive the other half.<span>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Royal</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Swedish</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Academy</st1:placetype></st1:place> of Sciences will name the winner in physics Tuesday and chemistry Wednesday. An award for economics, given in memory of Alfred Nobel, will be announced October 10. The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize recipient will be named Friday.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The Nobel Prizes were created by Alfred Nobel, a wealthy Swedish industrialist who invented dynamite.<span>  </span>The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in 1901. ---VOA News</span></div></div>

2011 Nobel Prize in Medicine to Remain Unchanged

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2011 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded in Stockholm

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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The 2011 Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to three U.S.-born scientists for "the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe" through observations of exploding stars.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">American Saul Perlmutter will share the $1.5 million award with Adam Riess and U.S.-Australian Brian Schmidt. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Royal</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Swedish</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Academy</st1:placetype></st1:place> of Sciences said the discoveries by the scientists "have helped to unveil a universe that to a large extent is unknown to science"<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">On Monday, the Nobel Prize for Medicine was give to Ralph Steinman, Bruce Beutler and Jules Hoffmann for their work increasing understanding of the immune system, which could lead to curing cancer and other diseases.<span>  </span>It was later discovered that Steinman had died on Friday following a lengthy battle with pancreatic cancer.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The Nobel Foundation held an emergency meeting Monday, after which it decided that the prize will remain unchanged.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The foundation's statutes say work produced by a person since deceased can not be awarded.<span>  </span>However, the foundation interpreted the rule to mean the Nobel Prize could not deliberately be awarded posthumously.<span>  </span>Since the decision to award the prize to Steinman was made in good faith under the assumption that he was alive, the laureates will remain unchanged.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Beutler and Hoffmann had been scheduled to split half the nearly $1.5 million prize money, while Steinman was to receive the other half.<span>  </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Royal</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Swedish</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Academy</st1:placetype></st1:place> of Sciences will name the winner in chemistry Wednesday.<span>  </span>An award for economics, given in memory of Alfred Nobel, will be announced October 10.<span>  </span>The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize recipient will be named Friday. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The Nobel Prizes were created by Alfred Nobel, a wealthy Swedish industrialist who invented dynamite.<span>  </span>The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in 1901. ---VOA News<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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2011 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded in Stockholm

The 2011 Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to three U.S.-born scientists for "the discovery of the accelerating expansion of t...

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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">The 2011 Nobel Prize for Medicine has been awarded to three scientists for their work increasing understanding of the immune system, but the award was complicated Monday by news that one of the prize winners died three days ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">The award, announced Monday in Stockholm, Sweden, went to Bruce Beutler of the United States, Jules Hoffmann of Luxembourg and Canadian-born Ralph Steinman for their work that could lead to curing cancer and other diseases.  <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">But after the prize winners were announced, the Nobel Committee, which does not make posthumous awards, learned that Steinman had died Friday after a battle with pancreatic cancer.  <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">It is unclear if the Nobel Committee will rescind the award or how it will deal with the prize money in what they are calling "a unique situation."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Beutler and Hoffmann had been scheduled to split half the nearly $1.5 million prize money, while Steinman was to receive the other half.  <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Royal</st1:placename>  <st1:placename w:st="on">Swedish</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Academy</st1:placetype></st1:place> of Sciences will name the winner in physics Tuesday and chemistry Wednesday.  An award for economics, given in memory of Alfred Nobel, will be announced October 10.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize recipient will be named Friday.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">The Nobel Prizes were created by Alfred Nobel, a wealthy Swedish industrialist who invented dynamite.  The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in 1901.  <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Ninety-one Nobel Peace Prizes have been awarded.  On 19 different occasions, the prize committee felt there were no nominees who met the criteria for the award.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">The International Committee of the Red Cross has been recognized most often, with three awards.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Only one Peace laureate has declined the award.  In 1973 Vietnamese politician Le Duc Tho, was recognized along with U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.  Le Duc Tho declined the Nobel Peace Prize. ---VOA News<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

2011 Nobel Prize in Medicine under Review

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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><st1:city w:st="on"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">CAIRO</span></st1:city><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"> (NNN-KUNA) -- <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Kuwait</st1:country-region></st1:place>'s Ministry of Health on Sunday awarded Iranian Doctor Ali Reza Ansari the country's prize for the Control of Cancer, Cardiovascular Diseases and Diabetes in the Eastern Mediterranean Region.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The Minister of Health Hilal Al-Sayer presented the award to Ansari in a ceremony held at the Egyptian capital, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Cairo</st1:place></st1:city>, on the sidelines of the 58th meeting for the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">In statement to KUNA, Ansari expressed his great joy at winning the award, hailing <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Kuwait</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s role in their fight against the deadly disease.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Ansari also donated the prize value to the drought-stricken Somali people.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The Iranian doctor holds a PhD in epidemiology from the <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Sydney</st1:placename> in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region> and a degree in public health from <st1:country-region w:st="on">Iran</st1:country-region>'s <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Kerman</st1:placename></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">He has conducted extensive research in the field of cancer control having worked as a lecturer at the Zahedan University of Medical Sciences in addition to heading several disease control centers in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region>. -- NNN-KUNA<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>

Kuwait presents prize for control of cancer to Iranian doctor

CAIRO (NNN-KUNA) -- Kuwait 's Ministry of Health on Sunday awarded Iranian Doctor Ali Reza Ansari the country's prize for the Cont...

Syrian poet could win Nobel Prize

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</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">NNN- Predicting the Nobel Literature Prize winner is near-impossible as the Swedish Academy stays tight-lipped and often honors writers off the beaten path − so could it be Syrian poet Adonis this year? A political choice may be more likely when the Academy announces its decision, which it is likely to do early October. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">In June, Adonis, whose real name is Ali Ahmed Said and who lives in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">France</st1:place></st1:country-region>, won the Goethe Prize. The same month, he published an open letter to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in a Lebanese newspaper urging him to end the bloody repression. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">“It seems your destiny is to sacrifice yourself for your mistakes and to give back voice to the people and let them decide,” he wrote in the letter. Photo courtesy of alarabiya.net --- NNN</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div></div>

Syrian poet could win Nobel Prize

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Dalai Lama to receive Mahatma Gandhi peace award

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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">JOHANNESBURG (NNN-Bernama): The Dalai Lama will receive the Mahatman Gandhi peace prize at the annual Satyagraha Awards, which will be held at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Durban</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">City Hall</st1:placetype></st1:place> on Oct 9, Press Trust of India (PTI) reported.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">The legendary Indian leader's granddaughter Ela Gandhi, who announced on Sunday in conjunction with Gandhi Jayanti celebration, urged the South African government to grant a visa to the Tibetan spiritual leader to visit the country and receive the award. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">The event is one of several public invitations that the Dalai Lama has accepted during a proposed South African visit this week, amid concern that the South African government may not grant him a visa under Chinese pressure. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">The visit was prompted by an invitation from fellow Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu for the Dalai Lama to join him for his 80th birthday celebrations on Friday. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Denying that the visa was being delayed due to a visit toSouth Africa's biggest trading partner China by Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe last week, South African authorities said the visa was still "under consideration" on Friday, less than a week before the start of his visit. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">The Dalai Lama had previously been refused a visa in 2009. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Expressing the hope that the visa would be issued in time, Ela Gandhi said: <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">"Since he is a spiritual head and not a political one, there should be no problem issuing the Dalai Lama with a visa," she said. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">In Johannesburg, the University of the Witwatersrand in conjunction with the Gandhi Centenary Committee, One Young World and Afrika Tikkun has invited the Dalai Lama to talk on 'Non-Violence in the New Century: The Way Forward.'</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">"We would encourage the South African government not to silence the voice of the Dalai Lama. We should welcome the opportunity to host him in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">South Africa</st1:place></st1:country-region> and we should allow all voices to be heard in our democracy - a right for which we have fought with our lives," Loyiso Nongxa, Vice-Chancellor and Principal of Wits University, said in a statement.-NNN-BERNAMA</span></div></div>

Dalai Lama to receive Mahatma Gandhi peace award

JOHANNESBURG (NNN-Bernama): The Dalai Lama will receive the Mahatman Gandhi peace prize at the annual Satyagraha Awards, which will be held...