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Nobel Peace Prize

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Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado revived Venezuela's opposition

Popular opposition figure Machado was barred from running in Venezuela’s 2024 election and threw her support behind the now-exiled Edmundo Gonzalez.
International

Nobel Peace Prize rallies Venezuela's opposition, deepens Maduro's isolation

FILE PHOTO: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado gestures at a protest ahead of the Friday inauguration of President Nicolas Maduro for his third term, in Caracas, Venezuela January 9, 2025. REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/File Photo
International

Venezuela’s Machado gets Nobel Peace Prize 2025, drawing White House criticism of ‘politics over peace’

For some foreign leaders, mentioning the prestigious award has become a sign of diplomatic goodwill towards an American president who envisions himself as a peacemaker.
Lifestyle

Peace offering? Donald Trump’s Nobel obsession

An emotional Toshiyuki Mimaki, who survived the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, said the win of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize would give a major boost to its efforts to demonstrate that the abolition of nuclear weapons was possible.
International

Japan group of atomic bomb survivors gets Nobel Peace Prize

(FILES) Former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari attends a luncheon of political journalists, in Helsinki on February 16, 2016. Ahtisaari, who was a mediator who brokered peace around the globe, winning worldwide recognition and a Nobel Peace Prize, died on October 16, 2023 at the age of 86 after struggling with Alzheimers disease. (Photo by Roni Rekomaa / Lehtikuva / AFP) / Finland OUT
International

Nobel Peace laureate and former Finnish president Ahtisaari dies at 86

Narges Mohammadi is one of Iran’s leading human rights activists, who has campaigned for women’s rights and the abolition of the death penalty. She is currently serving multiple sentences in Tehran’s Evin Prison amounting to about 12 years imprisonment.
Lifestyle

Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi wins 2023 Nobel Peace Prize

The prize money has been adjusted up and down in recent years, and the award-givers said it was increasing the amount this year to reflect the Foundation’s stronger financial position.
International

Nobel Prize award raised by nearly 1 million kronor for 2023

The nominations comprise 212 individuals and 93 organisations, the Oslo-based institute said on its website.
Lifestyle

305 nominations for Nobel Peace Prize

From left: The 2022 Nobel Economics Prize laureates Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig on a display at a press conference to unveil the as winners at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on Monday (Oct 10).
Lifestyle

Bernanke, Diamond, Dybvig share Nobel prize in economics

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