Growing chatter over Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize prospects

Now, President Donald Trump's supporters are pushing for him to be the next U.S. leader to win the Nobel Peace Prize - a move that's being met by smirks and eye rolls in Europe, where Trump remains deeply unpopular. But that's not stopping a growing list of champions from pushing the Nobel committee to consider Trump for the world's most coveted diplomatic prize.

Lift preconditions for peace talks, solons tell Duterte

Leftist lawmakers are asking President Rodrigo Duterte to do away with the preconditions he has set for the resumption of the stalled peace talks between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines . The Philippine Government and National Democratic Front opened the Fourth Round of Peace Talks ACT-Teachers Reps.

300 U.S. Marines land in Norway, irking Russia

PanARMENIAN.Net - Some 300 U.S. Marines landed in Norway on Monday, January 16 for a six-month deployment, the first time since World War Two that foreign troops have been allowed to be stationed there, in a deployment which has irked Norway's Arctic neighbour Russia , Reuters reports. Officials played down any link between the operation and NATO concerns over Russia, but the deployment coincides with the U.S. sending several thousand troops to Poland to beef up its Eastern European allies worried about Moscow's assertiveness.

NATO boss in autobiography: Obama backed my candidacy

NATO's secretary-general says his bid to become the alliance's chief was supported by U.S. President Barack Obama, who worked behind the scenes to make it happen. In an autobiography published Friday, former Norwegian prime minister Jens Stoltenberg wrote that Obama sent him an acknowledgement letter in late 2013 after Stoltenberg had resigned because his Labor Party lost parliamentary elections.