Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: Thornbjoern Jagland

Thornbjoern Jagland stories: 2 news summaries

Most of Nobel Panel Objected to Obama Pick

Chairman Thorbjoern Jagland talked fellow voters into selection

Oct 15, 09 2:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama's Nobel Prize was a tough sell for the chairman of the committee that awarded the honor, with three of the five members initially opposing his selection, anonymous sources tell a Norwegian newspaper. They were persuaded mainly by chairman Thorbjoern Jagland, who strongly backed Obama from the beginning. The... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Barack Obama • Norway • Nobel Prize • Nobel Peace Prize • President Obama • Thornbjoern Jagland • Aagot Valle

 Nobel Jury: 
 Obama Is 
 the Right 
 Choice 

One says of critics: 'Where do these people come from?'

Oct 13, 09 12:58 PM CDT
(AP) - The Nobel panel that gave the peace prize to President Obama is strongly defending its choice amid widespread criticism. "We simply disagree that he has done nothing," said chairman Thorbjoern Jagland. Another of the five panelists said of critics: "Where do these people come from?" The four... More »

MORE ABOUT:
missile shield • Norway • Nobel Prize • Nobel Peace Prize • Mideast peace • President Obama • Nobel laureates • committee • Thornbjoern Jagland

2 Stories


from our news partners