Posts Tagged ‘committee-said’

AP – The death toll from Tropical Storm Mirinae rose to 57 in Vietnam on Wednesday as authorities stepped up rescue and relief operations in the affected central regions.

Reuters – American economists Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson won the 2009 Nobel prize for economics for their work in economic governance, the prize committee said on Monday.

Reuters – Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller won the Nobel literature prize on Thursday, saying Nicolae Ceausescu’s brutal dictatorship compelled her to write of how a powerful few can dominate and destroy a nation.

AFP – A massive suicide car bomb struck outside the Indian embassy in Kabul on Thursday, killing 17 people and injuring 63 more, most of them civilians, in an attack claimed by Taliban militants.

Reuters – Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller, who charted the brutality and oppressiveness of Nicolae Ceausescu’s dictatorship, was lost for words when she learnt she had won the 2009 Nobel literature prize.

Reuters – Iran should immediately release detainees who did not play a major part in street unrest after its disputed election in June, a member of a parliamentary investigative committee said on Tuesday.