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U.N. envoy Martti Ahtisaari looks up during talks with Serbian President Boris Tadic in Belgrade, Serbia, in this Friday, Feb. 2, 2007 file photo. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has announced Friday Oct. 10, 2008 that Finland's ex-president Martti Ahtisaari has won the Nobel Peace
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 International Herald Tribune 
Martti Ahtisaari of Finland wins Nobel Peace Prize
| : The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded its 2008 peace prize on Friday to Martti Ahtisaari, the former Finnish president who has been associated over decades with peace efforts and quiet, cautious d... (photo: AP / Darko Bandic, FILE)
A pedestrian walks past a screen displaying markets news, with European stock exchange indexes being showed, Friday, Oct. 10, 2008 in a Paris street. European stock markets slumped in early trading Friday following massive sell-offs on Wall Street and Asia as lending rates between banks continue to rise despite this week's efforts by central banks to break the logjam in credit ma
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 The Boston Globe 
World stocks fall sharply again
| LONDON—European stock markets slumped further on Friday following massive losses on Wall Street and Asia on mounting fears that this week's efforts by central banks and governments to break th... (photo: AP / Thibault Camus)
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Vodka brand sues Absolute Radio
| The owner of Swedish vodka brand Absolut has launched legal proceedings against Absolute Radio, the rebranded Virgin Radio, for infringement of its trademark. | Drinks company V&S Vin&Sprit,... (photo: WN)
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Iceland's Prime Minister Geir H. Haarde, at podium, speaks at a press conference in Reykjavik, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008.  BBC News 
Britain v Iceland: fish now finance
| Here we go again. | Having fought three rather pointless - though at the times bitter - little wars over fishing limits in the 1970s, Britain and Iceland have now allowed a problem over British depo... (photo: AP / Arni Torfason)
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 Meeting with former Finnish President Martti AHTISAARI . ula1 The State
Former Finnish president wins Nobel Peace Prize
| OSLO, Norway -- | Finland's ex-president Martti Ahtisaari received the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to build a lasting peace from Africa and Asia to Euro... (photo: The Council of the European Union)
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 Jos Manuel Barroso, President of the EC, receives Martti Ahtisaari, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General for future status process for Kosovo . ula1 International Herald Tribune
Finland's Ahtisaari wins Nobel Peace Prize
| : The Nobel Committee awarded its 2008 peace prize on Friday to Martti Ahtisaari, the former Finnish president who has been associated over decades with peace efforts a... (photo: European Community, 2006 )
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**FILE** Outspoken Chinese AIDS activist Hu Jia gestures during an interview at a cafe in Beijing, in this March 31, 2006 file photo. Hu was charged with "subverting" China's government after security officers barged into his home and took him away, a watchdog group and lawyer said Saturday, Dec. 29, 2007. (js1) CNN
Chinese men lead Nobel Peace Prize favorites
| OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Human rights activists were seen as the favorites to win the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize -- including Chinese dissidents Gao Zhisheng and Hu Jia, Russia... (photo: AP / Ng Han Guan, File)
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 U.N. special envoy Martti Ahtisaari , right, listens to journalists when arriving at the Austria Center in Vienna, on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2007, for a final contentious round of talks on the future status of Kosovo. (sa0) Star Tribune
Finland's former President Ahtisaari wins Nobel Peace Prize for his global peace efforts
| OSLO, Norway - Finland's ex-president Martti Ahtisaari received the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to build a lasting peace in places as diverse as East Ti... (photo: AP Photo/Hans Punz)
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Britains Prime Minister Tony Blair, left, turns towards the media with his Deputy John Prescott, on the pier at Gravesend in Kent, England during a visit to promote urban regeneration, Thursday March 31, 2005. London Evening Standard
Prescott 'told councils to invest for high interest'
Tory councils are blaming John Prescott for encouraging them to invest in Icelandic banks with high rates of interest. | Official guidance sent out by the office of the t... (photo: AP / Alastair Grant)
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Prime Minister of Norway Addresses General Assembly The Times of India
Norwegian MP quits over calls to fortune-tellers
| 10 Oct 2008, 0523 hrs IST,AFP               Text: OSLO: A Norwegian politician said on Thursday she would not be seeking re-elec... (photo: UN / Marco Castro)
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U.N. envoy Martti Ahtisaari looks up during talks with Serbian President Boris Tadic in Belgrade, Serbia, in this Friday, Feb. 2, 2007 file photo. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has announced Friday Oct. 10, 2008 that Finland's ex-president Martti Ahtisaari has won the Nobel Peace
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Top candidate of the Alliance for the Future of Austria, BZOE, Joerg Haider and his counterpart of the Freedom Party, FPOE, Heinz Christian Strache, from left, shake hands prior to the start of a TV debate after the Austrian national elections, on Sunday, Sept. 28, 2008, at the parliament in Vienna.
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 Meeting with former Finnish President Martti AHTISAARI . ula1
Former Finnish president wins Nobel Peace Prize
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- Finland's Martti Ahtisaari wins Nobel Peace Prize
- Ex-Finnish president and global peacemaker Martti Ahtisaari
- Martti Ahtisaari of Finland wins Nobel Peace Prize
- Finland's Martti Ahtisaari wins Nobel Peace Prize
- Finland's Martti Ahtisaari wins Nobel Peace Prize
- Finland's Martti Ahtisaari wins Nobel Peace Prize
U.N. envoy Martti Ahtisaari looks up during talks with Serbian President Boris Tadic in Belgrade, Serbia, in this Friday, Feb. 2, 2007 file photo. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has announced Friday Oct. 10, 2008 that Finland's ex-president Martti Ahtisaari has won the Nobel Peace
Martti Ahtisaari of Finland wins Nobel Peace Prize
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- Finland's Martti Ahtisaari wins Nobel Peace Prize
- Martti Ahtisaari of Finland wins Nobel Peace Prize
- Finland's Martti Ahtisaari wins Nobel Peace Prize
- Finland's Martti Ahtisaari wins Nobel Peace Prize
- Finland's Martti Ahtisaari wins Nobel Peace Prize
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U.N. envoy Martti Ahtisaari looks up during talks with Serbian President Boris Tadic in Belgrade, Serbia, in this Friday, Feb. 2, 2007 file photo. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has announced Friday Oct. 10, 2008 that Finland's ex-president Martti Ahtisaari has won the Nobel Peace
Martti Ahtisaari of Finland wins Nobel Peace Prize
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- Ex-Finnish president and global peacemaker Martti Ahtisaari
- Martti Ahtisaari of Finland wins Nobel Peace Prize
- Finland's Martti Ahtisaari wins Nobel Peace Prize
- Finland's Martti Ahtisaari wins Nobel Peace Prize
- Finland's Martti Ahtisaari wins Nobel Peace Prize
- Charities beg for Icelandic savings to be protected
U.N. envoy Martti Ahtisaari looks up during talks with Serbian President Boris Tadic in Belgrade, Serbia, in this Friday, Feb. 2, 2007 file photo. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has announced Friday Oct. 10, 2008 that Finland's ex-president Martti Ahtisaari has won the Nobel Peace
Martti Ahtisaari of Finland wins Nobel Peace Prize
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Lapua diocese bishop Simo Peura gives a sermon during a memorial service, Sunday Sept. 28, 2008, in Kauhajoki, Finland, where a 22-year-old gunman shot and set fire to his victims at a vocational college on Tuesday. Finns on Sunday mourned the victims of a school massacre in which a lone gunman killed nine fellow students and a teacher before shooting himse
Finland mourns victims of school shooting
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