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Nobel Institute says Venezuelan leader Machado can’t give Peace Prize to Trump

January 11, 2026 admin

File picture of Prize laureate and Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado | Photo Credit: Reuters The organisation that oversees the Nobel Peace Prize is throwing cold water on talk of Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado giving her recent award to President Donald Trump. Once the Nobel Peace Prize is announced, it can’t be…

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Watch: Julian Assange Challenges Nobel Peace Prize Award to Maria Corina Machado

December 19, 2025 admin

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has filed a criminal complaint in Sweden against the Nobel Foundation, opposing the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado. Assange claims the award amounts to a gross misappropriation of funds under Swedish law and alleges the prize money could facilitate war crimes. He has sought to…

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Daughter of Venezuela’s Machado picks up Nobel peace prize in her absence

December 10, 2025 admin

Venezuela’s opposition leader Maria Corina Machado on Wednesday (December 10, 2025) urged her compatriots to fight for freedom against “State terrorism”, as she said she was coming out of hiding to travel to Norway after being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in her absence. Ms. Machado, who won the Nobel for challenging President Nicolas Maduro’s…

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Nobel Institute suspects leak before Machado’s win, ‘highly likely an espionage’

October 12, 2025 admin

Venezuelan Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado. File | Photo Credit: Reuters A potential leak that preceded the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was “highly likely” the result of espionage, the Nobel Institute told Norwegian media on Saturday (October 11, 2025). The odds of Ms. Machado winning the…

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Trump’s quest for Nobel Peace Prize falls short despite high-profile nominations

October 10, 2025 admin

President Donald Trump was passed over for the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday (October 10, 2025) despite jockeying from his fellow Republicans, various world leaders and — most vocally — himself. Opposition activist María Corina Machado of Venezuela was awarded the prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said it was honouring her “for her tireless…

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Remembering primatologist Jane Goodall, who should have got the Nobel Peace Prize

October 9, 2025 admin

Much has been written about the universally loved Jane Goodall, primatologist and animal rights campaigner, on whom awards and honours far too numerous to list have been showered. She passed away on October 1 aged 91. One recognition, however, she did not but should have received is the Nobel Peace Prize. For all her life, Goodall worked for…

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Malala Yousafzai As She Visits Her Native Pakistan

January 11, 2025 admin

Islamabad, Pakistan: Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai said she was “overwhelmed” to be back in her native Pakistan Saturday, as she arrived for a global summit on girls’ education in the Islamic world. The education activist was shot by the Pakistan Taliban militants in 2012 when she was a schoolgirl, and has returned to…

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Japan Atomic Bomb Survivors’ Group Receives Nobel Peace Prize, Calls for Nuclear Ban

December 10, 2024 admin

Oslo: Japan’s atomic bomb survivors’ group Nihon Hidankyo accepted its Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday, pleading for the abolition of nuclear weapons that are resurging as a threat 80 years after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. One of the three Nihon Hidankyo co-chairs, 92-year-old Nagasaki survivor Terumi Tanaka, demanded “action from governments to achieve” a…

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Nihon Hidankyo | No more ‘hibakusha’

October 12, 2024 admin

Atomic bomb survivors and members of Nihon Hidankyo, a country-wide organisation of atomic and hydrogen bomb sufferers, including Assistant Secretary General Toshiko Hamanaka, Co-chairperson Terumi Tanaka, Assistant Secretary General Masako Wada, Assistant Secretary General Jiro Hamasumi attend a press conference on the following day of Nihon Hidankyo winning the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, in Tokyo,…

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Japanese Atomic Bomb Survivors’ Group Nihon Hidankyo Wins Nobel Peace Prize

October 11, 2024 admin

Oslo / Tokyo: Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, in a warning to countries that have nuclear weapons not to use them. Many survivors of the only two nuclear bombs ever to be used in conflict, who are known…

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