The 2019 Nobel Peace has been awarded to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.Ahmed was cited for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiati...

Amnesty International has withdrawn its most prestigious human rights prize from Aung San Suu Kyi, accusing the Myanmar leader of perpetuating human rights abuses by not speaking out about violence ag...

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Monday that he didn’t deserve the Peace Nobel but whoever solved the Kashmir dispute would be worthy of the award.His comments came days after a resolution...

Greta Thunberg may have become the new global climate icon, but the 16-year-old Swedish teenager struggled with depression for three to four years and received no support from her father for skipping ...

History from the perspective of great powers is different, and especially so in the case of departing great powers. Wavell, the penultimate British viceroy in India, sought parallels in history on the...

When the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, announced on April 12 that he was awarding Prime Minister Narendra Modi his country’s highest honour, the Order of St. Andrew, the Indian government was q...

If the Indian Prime Minister is feeling a bit neglected at home after some Pakistanis advocated the Nobel Peace Prize for their Prime Minister Imran Khan, a strong contender has emerged in India from ...

Sir — Belgian authorities have rightly altered the mechanics of Manneken-Pis, the famous pissing boy who symbolizes going with the flow. The water that comes out of his bronze bladder will now be re...

Environmentalist R.K. Pachauri, a former TERI chief under whose chairmanship the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, passed away on Thursday. He was 79....

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his chief spokesperson declined on Monday to say if Abe had nominated President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, though they praised Trump for dealings wi...