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☆ I went to Wendy's for the 1st time. I thought it was bizarre that it sold baked potatoes, and I'm still not sure what a Frosty is.
  + stars: | 2023-10-07 | by ( Grace Dean | Read More | Read Less | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: 1 min
Grace Dean is a Senior Business Reporter at Insider's London office. She covers retail, transport, tech, and other breaking business news. She particularly enjoys writing about the restaurant industry, fast-food giants, retail trends, and the labor market. Grace joined the team in August 2020 after studying German & Business at Newcastle University and spending a year as the Editor-in-Chief of its student newspaper the Courier. She spent a semester at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg in Germany and also speaks conversational Dutch.
Persons: Grace Dean, Grace, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Organizations: Business, Newcastle University, Courier, Sky News, BBC Locations: Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany
☆ For Imprisoned Nobel Laureates, the Prize Did Not Bring Freedom
  + stars: | 2023-10-06 | by ( Associated Press | Oct. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com   time to read: +4 min
STOCKHOLM (AP) — The head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee urged Iran to release imprisoned peace prize winner Narges Mohammadi and let her accept the award at the annual prize ceremony in December. Mohammadi, an Iranian human rights activist, is the fifth peace laureate to get the prize while in prison or under house arrest. Here’s a look at previous Nobel laureates who were in detention:CARL VON OSSIETZKYPolitical Cartoons View All 1202 ImagesThe 1935 Nobel Peace Prize to German journalist Carl Von Ossietzky so infuriated Adolf Hitler that the Nazi leader prohibited all Germans from receiving Nobel Prizes. He was the first Nobel peace laureate to die in captivity. His wife was placed under house arrest, and dozens of his supporters were prevented from leaving the country.
Persons: Narges Mohammadi, CARL VON OSSIETZKY, Carl Von Ossietzky, Adolf Hitler, Ossietzky, Aung San, Aung San Suu Kyi, Suu Kyi, LIU XIAOBO Liu Xiaobo, Barack Obama, ALES BIALIATSKI Belarussian, Ales Bialiatski, Alexander Lukashenko, Bialiatski Organizations: STOCKHOLM, Nazi, Norwegian Nobel, Human Rights Locations: Norwegian, Iran, Iranian, Norway, Myanmar, Aung San Suu, China, Beijing, Oslo, Russia, Ukraine
☆ Russia wants to turn Ukraine into 'dependent' like Belarus, wife of jailed Nobel laureate says
  + stars: | 2022-12-10 | by ( Gwladys Fouche | Thomson Reuters | Oversees News Coverage Norway For Reuters | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
SummarySummary Companies Ukraine, Russia, Belarus rights campaigners won awardPrize highlight importance of civil society for peaceByalyatski in jail, wife speaks for him at ceremonyOSLO, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Russia wants to turn Ukraine into a "dependent dictatorship" like Belarus, the wife of jailed Belarusian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Byalyatski said on Saturday upon receiving the prize on his behalf, speaking his words. "It highlights the dramatic situation and struggle for human rights in the country," she said, adding she was speaking her husband's words. Pinchuk has met her husband once since he was named a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, in prison, behind a glass wall, she told a news conference on Friday. "I know exactly what kind of Ukraine would suit Russia and Putin — a dependent dictatorship. Belarus and Russia are formally part of a "union state" and are closely allied economically and militarily.
☆ Nobel Prize Winner Maria Ressa Is Fighting for Press Freedom
  + stars: | 2022-11-25 | by ( Emily Bobrow | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
When the Philippine investigative journalist Maria Ressa won the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, the committee called her “a fearless defender of freedom of expression” who “exposed the abuse of power, use of violence and increasing authoritarianism” of Rodrigo Duterte , the president of the Philippines who left office this year. Ms. Ressa notes that before she and Russian journalist Dmitri Muratov shared the prize, the last journalist to win it was Carl von Ossietzky, a German who received the honor in 1935 while languishing in a Nazi concentration camp. “The Norwegian Nobel Committee signaled that the world was at a similar historical moment, another existential point for democracy,” Ms. Ressa writes in her new book, “How to Stand Up to a Dictator.” Since 2017, she has been battling charges brought against her by the Philippine government, including tax evasion and three cyber libel cases. “My freedom’s at stake, and my reputation,” says Ms. Ressa, 59, on a video call from Los Angeles, where she is visiting family and her lawyer, the human-rights advocate Amal Clooney .
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