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Burma state television announced Monday that reformist President Thein Sein will make a state visit to the United States in the near future, the first by a Burmese head of state in almost 47 years and a sign of warming ties.The visit comes at the invitation of President Barack Obama, said the brief announcement, which gave no exact date.The last leader of Burma to visit the White House was the late dictator Ne Win in 1966.The United States has been a prime mover in urging Thein Sein to introduce reforms after five decades of repressive military rule that ended when he became an elected head of state in 2011.Last November, Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit Burma, a step in his administration's efforts to end decades of diplomatic isolation of the country also known as Myanmar and to reward its shift from authoritarian rule.The U.S. applied political and economic sanctions against the previous military regime for its human rights abuses and undemocratic rule, but the...
Bangladesh rescue workers have freed a woman trapped for 17 days in the rubble of a collapsed building.The rescuers discovered the woman Friday afternoon and ordered...
A Nobel Peace Prize-winning medical group says Syria's health system has been shattered during the more than two-year conflict and that their organization plans to n...
European leaders are in Norway to collect the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize, awarded to the European Union for fostering peace on a continent ravaged by war.Nobel committee...
Archbishop Desmond Tutu and two other Nobel Peace Prize laureates are contesting the awarding of this year's prize to the European Union, saying the 27-nation bloc c...
Layfield Energy CEO John Layfield and FBN’s Melissa Francis on the European Union winning the Nobel Peace Prize .
Excerpts from Aung San Suu Kyi's Nobel Peace Prize speech in Oslo City Hall, Norway, on Saturday:"Often during my days of house arrest it felt as though I were no lo...
While some Europeans swelled with pride when the European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize, howls of derision erupted from the continent's large band of skeptics.To m...
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi declared Saturday that the Nobel Peace Prize she won while under house arrest 21 years ago helped to shatter her sense of ...
Aung San Suu Kyi's Nobel Peace Prize speech explored her views on the ideals of peace, the seeds of war, the bonds of our common humanity, and the rare power of kind...
Forty-five years ago, Yank Barry was belting out "Louie, Louie" with iconic band The Kingsmen. Cut to 2013, and he's a third-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee with very...
The European Union won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its efforts to promote peace and democracy in Europe -- an award given even though the bloc is struggling ...
The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union itself is the latest grotesque act of self-indulgence by Old Europe's political class. Morally equivocat...
Prince Johnson, a former warlord-turned-politician who is best known for having videotaped himself overseeing the torture of Liberia's ex-president, announced Friday...
The scandal shaking up South Korea's main spy agency is not cloak-and-dagger stuff, but the kind of low-grade trickery anyone with an Internet connection could pull ...
The Dalai Lama is visiting New Orleans less than a week after gunfire at a Mother's Day parade injured 19 people.An entourage of Tibetan monks Tuesday will create an...
The Norwegian Nobel Committee says a record 259 nominations have been received for this year's Nobel Peace Prize, with publicly disclosed candidates including a Paki...
Police in northern England say thieves have stolen a gold Nobel Peace Prize awarded in the 1930s.Northumbria Police say burglars broke into the cellar of the Newcast...
FBN’s David Asman on the European Union receiving the Nobel Peace Prize and politicians’ praise for FEMA’s response to Hurricane Sandy.
DuPont Executive V.P. Jim Borel says being open to various types of opportunities has been critical in his climb to the top at the blue-chip chemical giant.