The Nobel Foundation on Saturday withdrew its invitation for representatives of Russia, Belarus and Iran to attend this year’s Nobel Prize award ceremonies after the decision announced a day earlier “provoked strong reactions.” Several Swedish lawmakers said Friday they would boycott this year’s Nobel Prize award ceremonies in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, after the private foundation that administers the prestigious awards changed its position from a year earlier and invited representatives of the three countries to attend, saying it “promotes opportunities to convey the important messag

That’s one $3 million Russian TOS-1 thermobaric launcher plus missiles with an anti-drone cage that apparently did nothing taken out by a relatively cheap drone. This was near Svatove. Ukraine uses anti-drone cages to protect against Russian Lancet drones. Things are not going well for the bad guys. It’s only fitting that a Russian anti-drone unit is taken out by a drone. The video shows Russian soldiers being hit from a distance. This is is a suburb of Horlivka, which is south of Bakhmut. This is just east of Staromaiorske...

The foundation behind the Nobel Peace Prize rescinded their invitations to the December ceremony for ambassadors from Russia, Belarus, and Iran after facing backlash over their initial decision to include the countries. The Nobel Foundation announced Saturday that it would rescind the invitations after Swedish officials, including Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, condemned the move. Other representatives of Sweden’s major political parties announced they would boycott the event if the countries attended.

The foundation behind the prestigious Nobel Prizes said Saturday it will rescind ceremony invitations for the Russian, Belarusian and Iranian ambassadors in a reversal of a previous decision. The Nobel Foundation decided to invite the trio of ambassadors to the Stockholm awards ceremony in December in an announcement Thursday, but faced significant backlash. “We recognise the strong reactions in Sweden,” the foundation said in a statement on Saturday. “We, therefore, choose to repeat last year’s exception to regular practice – that is, to not invite the ambassadors of Russia, Belarus...

The ambassadors of Russia, Belarus and Iran won’t be invited to this year’s Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm after all, following a backlash. “We recognize the strong reactions in Sweden,” the organization based in the Swedish capital said in a statement on Saturday. “The board of the Nobel Foundation, therefore, choose to repeat last year’s exception to regular practice — that is, to not invite the ambassadors of Russia, Belarus and Iran.” Oleg Nikolenko, a spokesman for Ukraine’s foreign ministry, called the decision “the victory of humanism” in a...

The decision to invite representatives from Russia and Iran to awards ceremony was criticised over Ukraine war and human rights violations. The Nobel Foundation has reversed its invitations for representatives of Russia, Belarus and Iran to attend this year’s Nobel Prize awards ceremony in Stockholm after the decision announced a day earlier “provoked strong reactions”.

STOCKHOLM (AP) – The Nobel Foundation on Saturday withdrew its invitation for representatives of Russia, Belarus and Iran to attend this year’s Nobel Prize award ceremonies after the decision announced a day earlier “provoked strong reactions.” Several Swedish lawmakers said Friday they would boycott this year’s Nobel Prize award ceremonies in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, after the private foundation that administers the prestigious awards changed its position from a year earlier and invited representatives of the three countries to attend, saying it “promotes opportunities to convey the

The Nobel Foundation said on Saturday that it would not allow the ambassadors of Russia, Belarus and Iran to attend this year’s Nobel Prize awards ceremony in Sweden, reversing its prior decision amid backlash. On Thursday, the foundation declared that it would extend invitations to the three countries as an act of inclusion, noting that even those who don’t share the values of the prize should have the opportunity to attend. Last year, the foundation rejected the ambassadors of Belarus and Russia because of the Kremlin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine....