World News - Assad, China warned over human rights as Nobel Peace Prize is awarded: "Updated at 7:40 a.m. ET: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee, of Liberia, and Tawakul Karman, of Yemen are formally given the Nobel Peace Prize.
Published at 7:20 a.m. ET: Awarding this year's Nobel Peace Prize, the head of the selection panel forecast that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would succumb to a "wind of history" blowing through the Arab world and be forced to accept democratic change.
Presenting the prize in Oslo to three women who include a Yemeni activist whose Arab spring protests helped undermine her country's veteran leader, Thorbjoern Jagland, the head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said: "No dictator can in the long run find shelter from this wind of history."
"It was this wind which led people to crawl up onto th"
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