Myanmar’s Supreme Court rejected Friday an appeal by pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to overturn her house arrest.
A diplomat who attended the hearing and spoke on condition of anonymity confirmed that the appeal was unsuccessful.
Suu Kyi, 64, has one final avenue for appeal to a special court in Myanmar’s new capital, Naypidaw.
The Nobel Peace [...]
Actress and kind Angelina Jolie wants President Obama’s administration to take greater steps towards establishing concord in Sudan.
Jolie, in her role as the co-chair of the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, wrote an op-ed cut pro Newsweek magazine on Thursday, the time Obama usual the Nobel Peace Prize.
Jolie wrote with the intention of Obama’s administration has not yet [...]
President Barack Obama said Friday that he was humbled by the decision of the Norwegian Nobel Committee to award him the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.
“I am both surprised and deeply humbled,” Obama said at the White House.
“I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments. But rather as an affirmation of American [...]
