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Yesh Atid chairman and former Finance Minister Yair Lapid urged former President Barack Obama to return the Nobel Peace Prize he was awarded in 2009, if an investigative report regarding his administration’s behavior towards the Hezbollah terror group is correct. Speaking with party members on Monday, Lapid responded to a report released by Politico early Monday morning which claims that the Obama administration systematically shielded the Hezbollah terrorist organization from prosecution, blunting the efforts of the Drug Enforcement Administration to crack-down on Hezbollah’s global drug trade and money laundering rackets. “If the report is correct,” Lapid told party members at...

Yesh Atid chairman and former Finance Minister Yair Lapid urged former President Barack Obama to return the Nobel Peace Prize he was awarded in 2009, if an investigative report regarding his administration’s behavior towards the Hezbollah terror group is correct. Speaking with party members on Monday, Lapid responded to a report released by Politico early Monday morning which claims that the Obama administration systematically shielded the Hezbollah terrorist organization from prosecution, blunting the efforts of the Drug Enforcement Administration to crack-down on Hezbollah’s global drug trade and money laundering rackets. “If the report is correct,” Lapid told party members at...

OSLO, Norway -- President Obama's visit to Norway to accept the Nobel Peace Prize has been billed as a 26-hour whirlwind tour with an itinerary that's turned heads because of the many activities he managed to pack into a day. But what's managed to turn more heads in the Scandinavian country is the number of events the president didn't attend. A headline in Norway's biggest newspaper VG questions Obama's perceived arrogance that led him to cancel lunch with King Harald and a pre-planned children's event outside Oslo City Hall -- events that have been longstanding traditions for Peace Prize winners.

HAVANA (Reuters) - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro lauded the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to U.S. President Barack Obama, saying on Saturday it was "a positive measure" that was more a criticism of past U.S. policies than a recognition of Obama's accomplishments. Castro said the prize made up for the blow Obama suffered last week when the International Olympic Committee awarded the 2016 Summer Games to Rio de Janeiro after Obama had flown to Copenhagen to pitch for Chicago, his adoptive hometown. The Nobel Committee announced on Friday that Obama had won the peace price for his "extraordinary...

Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize Friday shocked the world. But a peek at the backgrounds of the five people who made the selection gives a clue why the prize panel would be so favorably disposed to Obama – three of them would be considered hard-left liberals in American politics. One of those belongs to Norway’s Socialist Left party. And all five people on the committee are politicians selected by the Norwegian parliament, and generally hew to a Norwegian view of foreign affairs — internationalist in outlook and with a broad affinity for Obama’s posture on the world stage. “Obama’s speech...

WASHINGTON — Hours after being named a Nobel peace laureate, President Barack Obama Friday shouldered his duties as commander in chief of the US armed forces and convened his war council for crucial talks on Afghan strategy. Obama gathered his top political, military, and security aides in the secure Situation Room of the White House for the fourth in a series of in-depth consultations on rescuing the US mission in the unpopular eight-year war. "The president had a robust conversation about the security and political challenges in Afghanistan and the options for building a strategic approach going forward," an administration...

Acknowledging the historic role of Nobel Peace Prize-winning President Barack Obama, the Senate and House today voted to rename the city of Washington, DC Obama, District of Barack. "I'm pleased to accomplish this," said Speaker Nancy Pelosi. "I'm thrilled," stated Chris Matthews. "It's about time!" noted Eleanor Holmes-Norton. Praise also came from overseas. It was reported that the Canadian Government was considering renaming Toronto Toronobama. And Poland was considering re-naming itself Pobamaland. Indonesia, it was reported, was set to vote on renaming itself Indobamanesia. Further details as they are available.