Factbox-Previous winners of the Nobel Peace Prize
By Gwladys Fouche OSLO (Reuters) – The winner of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Oct. 6 in Oslo. Here are some past winners – and one…
By Gwladys Fouche OSLO (Reuters) – The winner of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Oct. 6 in Oslo. Here are some past winners – and one…
By Gwladys Fouche and Ilze Filks OSLO/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Russian dissident Alexei Navalny are among favourites for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, but experts say…
By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) – International mediators have stepped up efforts to prevent a new round of armed confrontation between Israel and the Islamist Hamas group, which runs Gaza,…
By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) – At least 40% of fighters from Colombia’s National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels could reject a potential peace deal being negotiated with the government,…
By Nailia Bagirova (Reuters) – Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Wednesday offered the ethnic Armenians of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region and also neighbouring Armenia prospects of cooperation, reconciliation and joint…
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s government and the Estado Mayor Central (EMC), the largest FARC dissident group, on Tuesday said in a joint statement they would begin peace talks on Oct.…
(Reuters) -Azerbaijan has sent new proposals to Armenia in their longstanding attempts to reach a peace deal, but big gaps remain between the two sides, Armenia’s state news agency quoted…
By Fabian Hamacher and Ann Wang KINMEN, Taiwan (Reuters) – Maintaining peace needs a powerful defence, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said on Wednesday, as she made a rare visit to…
By Philip Pullella (Reuters) – Pope Francis and General Mark Milley, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, discussed the war in Ukraine and hopes for peace there…
By Rupam Jain NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday peace was returning to the strife-torn northeastern state of Manipur where at least 180 people have…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Special Envoy for Yemen will visit the Gulf on Monday “to advance ongoing un-led efforts to expand the truce and launch a comprehensive peace process,”…
By Laurie Chen and Martin Quin Pollard BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s decision to join international talks in Saudi Arabia this weekend seeking to end Russia’s war in Ukraine signals possible…
Trump’s Historic Push For Middle East Peace Stalls Out Under Biden Kate Anderson on July 31, 2023 The White House is losing ground in its efforts to further a pact…
DUBAI (Reuters) – Normalisation of ties between Saudi Arabia and Israel would harm regional peace and stability, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said on Monday. U.S. President Joe Biden…
By Nikunj Ohri and Sarita Chaganti Singh NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Brokering peace between Russia and Ukraine is beyond the remit of the G20 and such efforts will be best…
(Reuters) – Colombia’s government has reached an agreement to begin peace talks with a faction of dissident Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels who rejected a 2016 peace agreement,…
TAIPEI (Reuters) – Leading Taiwan presidential candidate William Lai wrote in the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday that he could keep the peace with China if elected, reiterating his willingness…
By Daria Sito-Sucic SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Bosnia’s international peace overseer, Christian Schmidt, on Saturday annulled two laws that Bosnian Serb parliament had adopted defying the constitution and the terms of…
By Simon Lewis and Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said hard work remains to reach a final agreement to end the conflict over the…
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The head of Russia’s influential Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, told an envoy of Pope Francis on Thursday their churches should work together to avert “negative political developments…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is encouraged by recent efforts by Armenia and Azerbaijan to engage productively on a peace process, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Tuesday…
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis met Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday and discussed a range of common concerns including peace, poverty, inequality and the environment,…
(Reuters) – South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has briefed Chinese leader Xi Jinping on the upcoming visit by African leaders to Russia and Ukraine in a bid to end hostilities,…
By Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s foreign minister began a tour of African countries this week, stepping up wartime Kyiv’s diplomatic push to challenge Russian influence in the “Global…
HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – The United States, Australia, India and Japan, a group known as Quad, on Saturday pledged to uphold peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region and “oppose…