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  China Blacks Out Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony

  World | December 10, 2010 21:46 IST

   Beijing, Dec 10 (PTI) Shortly after the Nobel Peace Prize was given to jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo in absentia at Oslo, the government here today slammed the decision to honour him as a "Cold

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  China To Award Own Nobel Prize

  World | December 08, 2010 12:19 IST

  Beijing, Dec 8 :  Only three weeks after the idea was first publicly floated, China has cobbled together its own peace prize and plans to award it Thursday -- the day before the Nobel Committee

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  Mario Vargas Llosa Wins Nobel Literature Prize

  World | October 07, 2010 20:19 IST

  Stockholm, Oct 7: Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Spanish-speaking world who once ran for president in his homeland, won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature today.  The Swedish

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  2 Japanese, American Share Chemistry Nobel Prize

  World | October 06, 2010 17:07 IST

  Stockholm, Oct 6: American Richard Heck and Japanese researchers Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki won the 2010 Nobel Prize in chemistry today for developing a chemical method that has allowed scientists to test cancer drugs

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  Obama Defends War As He Accepts Nobel Peace Prize

  World | December 10, 2009 23:00 IST

  US President Barack Obama evoked the cause of a just war on Thursday, accepting his Nobel Peace Prize just nine days after sending 30,000 more US troops to war in Afghanistan but promising to use

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  German Writer Herta Mueller Wins Nobel Prize For Literature

  World | October 08, 2009 5:26 IST

  Herta Mueller, a little-known Romanian-born author who was persecuted for her critical depictions of life behind the Iron Curtain, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday in an award seen as a nod