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Nobel peace laureates urge US, NKorea

Oslo - Muslimchronicle

Representatives of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), on Saturday called on the US and North Korea to reduce tensions and end the "urgent threat" posed by weapons of mass destruction. "There's an urgent threat right now," ICAN head Beatrice Fihn told a press conference in Oslo. "I would very strongly urgeRead more

Ambassadors of Western nuclear powers

Oslo - Muslimchronicle

Breaking with tradition, nearly all ambassadors of the world's nuclear powers will not attend this year's Nobel Peace Prize ceremony which honours efforts to ban atomic weapons, the Nobel Institute said Thursday. "We are disappointed that the ambassadors from the United Kingdom, the United States and France won't be there," the head of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear WeaponsRead more

Hiroshima survivor to accept Nobel Prize

Hiroshima - Muslimchronicle

Setsuko Thurlow was 13 years old and standing only a mile away from ground zero when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945. More than 62 years after that horrific day, she will jointly accept the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of this year's laureate, the International Campaign to Abolish NuclearRead more

Nobel winning anti-nuclear group urges Trump

United Nations - Muslimchronicle

The nuclear weapons disarmament campaign group that won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize on Monday urged US President Donald Trump to uphold the Iran nuclear deal to "avoid causing any more conflict." "We really call on the US government to continue to certify and stay in this deal," Beatrice Fihn, director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)Read more

Anti-nuclear campaign ICAN wins Nobel Peace Prize

Washington - Muslimchronicle

The head of the anti-nuclear campaign group awarded the Nobel peace prize has chided Donald Trump for ramping up a nuclear standoff and said the US president has a track record of “not listening to expertise”. Speaking in the hours after the Norwegian Nobel committee made the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Ican) its 2017 laureate, Beatrice Fihn,Read more

Japan A-bomb survivors hail ICAN Nobel Peace Prize win

Tokyo - Muslimchronicle

Survivors of the World War II atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Friday congratulated ICAN on winning this year's Nobel Peace Prize, vowing to work together with the disarmament group to achieve a nuclear-free world. "I'm delighted that ICAN, which has taken action to abolish nuclear weapons like us, won the Nobel Peace Prize," Sunao Tsuboi, who suffered serious burnsRead more

Anti-nuclear campaign ICAN wins Nobel Peace Prize

Oslo - Muslimchronicle

Nuclear disarmament group International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its decade-long campaign to rid the world of the atomic bomb as nuclear-fueled crises swirl over North Korea and Iran. “The organization is receiving the award for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclearRead more

ICAN Nobel win 'good omen' for nuclear ban treaty's ratification

Geneva - Muslimchronicle

The Nobel Peace Prize award to nuclear disarmament group ICAN on Friday is "a good omen" for the eventual ratification of a treaty banning nuclear weapons, the United Nations said. "I think it is a good omen... for the treaty to be further signed and above all ratified", UN spokeswoman Alessandra Vellucci told reporters in Geneva, reacting to the honourRead more

Nuclear powers must start 'serious' disarmament talks

Oslo - Muslimchronicle

The world's nuclear powers must begin "serious negotiations" aimed at disarmament, the Nobel committee said Friday as it awarded its prestigious Peace Prize to non-proliferation pressure group ICAN. "This year's Peace Prize is also a call upon these states to initiate serious negotiations with a view to the gradual, balanced and carefully monitored elimination of the almost 15,000 nuclear weaponsRead more