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The accolade is accompanied by 50,000 euros, about $49,000, in prize money, which will be distributed among members of Ukrainian civil society. The European Union has honored the Ukrainian people [...]

Vesey tried to organize an insurrection in 1822 to free enslaved people, but was caught and hanged. Now several prominent Charleston institutions are honoring the bicentenary. Denmark Vesey, a formerly [...]

Aleksei A. Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who survived an assassination attempt only to be jailed, received the Sakharov Prize. MOSCOW -- Aleksei A. Navalny, who for a decade challenged [...]

The Pakistani schoolgirl who survived a Taliban assassination attempt received a human rights award on Friday. The girl, Malala Yousafzai, an education activist, was shot as she traveled to school [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDBill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey and 14 others will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom this year. The White House announced Thursday that the president will bestow the nation's highest [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDBill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey and 14 others will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom this year. The White House announced Thursday that the president will bestow the nation's highest [...]

There has been a lot of buzz lately about investors ''shorting'' China's overheated real estate market, basically betting that it will go down. I say that's peanuts. There is a [...]

China warned the Norwegian Nobel Committee not to honor the democracy activist Liu Xiaobo. The committee didn't listen. On Friday, Mr. Liu -- who is locked in jail on an [...]

BEIJING -- With just a day until the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded, the usual whirl of speculation over the winner is in full force, with many human rights advocates [...]

President Corazon C. Aquino gave the nation's highest civilian award today to a former senator who has fought for decades to remove United States military bases from the Philippines. 'I […]