This year’s Nobel Peace Prize winners say they see themselves in the Palestinians being attacked by Israel in Gaza. On Friday, it was announced that Nihon Hidankyo, known as “the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations,” had won the Prize this year. Toshiyuki Mimaki, co-chair of the organization, watched the ceremony in No...
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has gone to a movement of survivors of the 1945 US atomic bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The group Nihon Hidankyo has been working to eliminate the nuclear bomb, and for decades, has represented hundreds of thousands of survivors of the bombings. The Nobel committee said […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – US President Joe Biden called on the Iranian government Friday to free detained rights advocate Narges Mohammadi, saying the Nobel Peace Prize winner “is an inspiration to people everywhere.” Biden said Mohammadi has suffered repeated arrests, harassment and torture at Tehran’s direction, but said her ...
