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Although he doesn’t show up at the Copenhagen climate talks until next week, U.S. President Barack Obama won’t be far from global warming issues when he lands in Oslo Thursday to collect his contentious Nobel Peace Prize. [1]
Greenpeace activists said they had laid out the message “Obama: our climate, your decision” in enormous cloth letters covering an area 500 feet by 170 feet in an empty field next to Oslo’s Gardermoen airport. [2]
A couple walk along the pier in Oslo, Norway in front of a sign of Nobel Peace laureate Barack Obama Wednesday Dec. 9, 2009. [3]
A hotel worker peers out the door past police at the hotel in Oslo, Norway where Nobel Peace laureate Barack Obama will be staying Wednesday Dec. 9, 2009. [4]
US President Barack Obama will receive the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday. [5]
There is a bit of irony in that just 10 days after announcing the deployment of 30,000 more American troops to Afghanistan, President Obama will accept the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Thursday in Oslo, Norway. [6]
“This is our message and we want to send it most importantly to the president himself,” Greenpeace spokeswoman Bente Myhre Haast said, adding that she hopes it will be visible from Obama’s flight path. [2]
President Obama speaks at the White House on October 9 after receiving the Nobel Peace Prrize. [7]
A manlooks at an installation with pictures of peace prize laureates in the Nobel Field at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009. [5]
At the ceremony, Obama will accept a $1.4 million prize check, a gold medal and a diploma. [7]
OSLO — Although he doesn’t show up at the Copenhagen climate talks until next week, U.S. President Barack Obama won’t be far from global warming issues when he lands in Oslo Thursday to collect his contentious Nobel Peace Prize. [2]
U.S. President Barack Obama will stay at the hotel while he is in Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize 2009. [4]
On the sidewalks near Oslo’s lavish Grand Hotel, where Obama will stay, activists sprayed similar slogans on the pavement - from “you won it, now earn it” to “change the politics, save the climate.” [1]
Demonstrators plan to gather in sight of Obama’s hotel room balcony, where he is expected to wave to a torch-lit procession in his honor, and chant slogans playing on Obama’s own campaign slogans, foremost among them: “Change: Stop the War in Afghanistan.” [2]
Last week, city maintenance crews welded shut over 400 manholes in downtown Oslo, and police said they will remove all downtown trash cans on Wednesday afternoon to eliminate potential hiding places for bombs. [8]
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