Netanyahu Visits Peres, Signs Of ‘Real Improvement’ in Former President’s Condition
TEL AVIV – Former President Shimon Peres’ condition remains serious but saw “real improvement” Thursday morning, his physician and son-in-law said.
TEL AVIV – Former President Shimon Peres’ condition remains serious but saw “real improvement” Thursday morning, his physician and son-in-law said.
Activist and writer Elie Wiesel, the World War Two death camp survivor who won a Nobel Peace Prize for becoming the life-long voice of millions of Holocaust victims, has died, Israel’s Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem said on Saturday.
The BBC reports: The UN says it is appalled at a further 10-year prison sentence imposed by Iran on a prominent human rights activist, already serving six years in jail. Nargis Mohammadi was found guilty of several different charges including
The Jerusalem Post reports: Palestinians in Ramallah have launched a worldwide campaign on Tuesday to nominate jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti for the Nobel Peace Prize – despite his life imprisonment for five terrorist murders. The campaign is being sponsored by
Security conscious Americans are hard-pressed to be optimistic after reading the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Worldwide Threat Assessment for 2016.
TEL AVIV – For the first time ever, Egyptian schools will teach students about the historic 1979 peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. Israel’s Army Radio procured a copy of a new Egyptian history textbook that includes an entire chapter devoted to the
More than half a million people have put their names to an online petition calling for Greek islanders on the frontline of Europe’s migrant crisis to be awarded the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize. In a similar move, noted academics from
Jerusalem (AFP) – Former Israeli president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres was rushed to hospital on Sunday after feeling chest pains and being diagnosed with an “irregular heartbeat”, a spokeswoman said. Peres will stay overnight at a Tel
To Obama, the Geneva Convention applies to stateless terrorists–who are not parties to the convention, and are not lawful combatants–but not to U.S. sailors captured and detained by Iran at gunpoint
JERUSALEM (AFP) – Former Israeli president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres was making an “excellent” recovery on Friday after treatment for a heart problem, his surgeon said. “His condition is excellent, the widening of the artery was successful,” professor
JERUSALEM (AFP) – Former Israeli president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres, 92, was hospitalised Thursday for cardiovascular problems and is in stable condition after a medical procedure, his spokesman said. Peres was hospitalised “after experiencing chest pains,” the spokesman
The Iraqi government has nominated Yazidi Nadia Murad Basee Taha, who was abused as a sex slave by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), for the Nobel Peace Prize.
As Christians around the world prepare for the canonization of Mother of Teresa of Calcutta, Salon Magazine has responded as one might expect: by smearing the Nobel laureate who spent her entire adult life serving the poorest of the poor.
Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed the disgraced and alleged corrupt FIFA President Joseph “Sepp” Blatter deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.
Wikileaks co-founder and lefty hero Julian Assange “should receive the Nobel Peace Prize”, former MP George Galloway has claimed during an appearance at the Cambridge Union Society (CUS). The maverick left-winger and former Labour and Respect Party MP made the
Oct 20 – Twelve Nobel Peace Prize winners have called on British Prime Minister David Cameron to call publicly for the release of their fellow laureate, Liu Xiaobo, and his wife Liu Xia during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to
OSLO, Norway – Tunisia’s National Dialogue Quartet won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its contribution to building democracy after the Jasmine Revolution in 2011, the Nobel Committee said. The quartet is made up of the Tunisian General Labour Union
Contessa Brewer of CBSN, CBS News’ live streaming video news channel, reported the former secretary of the Nobel Peace Prize committee, from 1990-2015, Geir Lundestad, now says President Barack Obama’s 2009 prize was a “mistake.” In his new book Geir
The ex-secretary of the Nobel Committee says in a soon-to-be-released book that awarding the Peace Prize to Barack Obama in 2009 did not have the desired effect.
A recently released memoir revealed new details about the former Director of the Nobel Institute and his regret for agreeing to hand over the famed Peace Prize to President Barack Obama during his first days in office.
Nobel Peace Prize Winner President Barack Obama has become the largest international arms dealer since the end of WWII, according research done is a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). With more than $160 billion in arms sales during his first five years as President, Obama has outpaced the former leader in this category, President Richard M. Nixon.
Senior Taliban commander Ehsanullah Ehsan, one of the world’s best-known terror leaders, has been located after listing “jihad” as a skill on his LinkedIn account.