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Nobel Peace Prize-winner's newspaper closes amid Russia pressure

Russia's leading independent newspaper suspended operations after pressure from Russian authorities, a move that comes less than six months after its editor won the Nobel Peace Prize

European politicians nominate Ukraine's Zelenskyy for Nobel Peace Prize

Several current and former European politicians addressed the Norwegian Nobel Committee with a request to nominate Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022

'What are you willing to sacrifice for Truth?'

Excerpts of Nobel Lecture given by Nobel Peace Prize laureate 2021 Maria Ressa

Myanmar court prepares to deliver verdict in of trial ousted leader Suu Kyi

A Myanmar court prepared to deliver its verdict Tuesday in the trial of ousted leader Suu Kyi on charges of spreading information that could disturb public order, violating Covid covirestrictions

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala ties the knot with senior officer of PCB

Nobel Laureate and Pakistani activist for girls' education Malala Yousafzai has tied the knot with a top-ranked officer of the Pakistan Cricket Board in a small ceremony in the UK

Journalists who took on Putin and Duterte win 2021 Nobel Peace Prize

Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov were given the award 'for their courageous fight for freedom of expression in the Philippines and Russia', says Chairwoman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee

Activists, WHO in the frame as Nobel Peace guessing starts

The annual Nobel Peace Prize shines the brightest of lights on the person or group thought to have done most to promote peace. But guessing who it will be is just a stab in the dark.

Nobel Peace Prize winner says Olympics deserves the award

The Olympic movement deserves to win the Nobel Peace Prize, former award winner Muhammad Yunus said Monday.

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, UAE leader nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Under the rules of the Nobel Prize Committee, a nomination made by a recipient must be discussed, his office said.

WFP Nobel win reminder of duty to narrow gap between rich, poor: Dalai Lama

Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Saturday congratulated the executive director of the UN World Food Programme, a day after the organisation won this year's Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel change

There are question-marks about the way the prizes work

Nobel Peace Prize 2020 awarded to World Food Programme for fighting hunger

Long forgotten during the 1990s and early 2000s as famine and hunger largely disappeared from news headlines, the WFP jumped into the spotlight again in 2007-08 as the world faced a food crisis

UN chief Guterres lauds 2020 Nobel Peace Prize winner World Food Programme

Guterres said there was also hunger in the world for international cooperation and the World Food Programme feeds that need as well

Top headlines: BSE-listed firms' m-cap hits new high, RBI holds key rates

From BSE-listed firms' m-cap hitting record high to Goyal getting additional charge after Paswan's death, Business Standard brings you the top headlines of the day

UN's World Food Programme wins 2020 Nobel Peace prize for combating hunger

The announcement was made Friday in Oslo by Berit Reiss-Andersen, the chair of the Nobel Committee

First time in my life I've been without words: WFP head on Nobel prize win

The head of the UN World Food Programme, David Beasley, has told The Associated Press that he was left speechless by the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to his organisation

Trump's Middle East deal is good. But still, a long way to go towards peace

Past Nobel laureates who have been honored for advancing peace in the Middle East - Yasir Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Anwar el-Sadat, Menachem Begin - have not been saints

Nobel Prize: Who nominates, how selection works, here are the answers

Donald Trump's nomination has caused many to frown, given the criticism he continues to face for faltering on multiple fronts at home and abroad

Trump nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for brokering UAE-Israel peace deal

US President Donald Trump has been nominated for 2021 Nobel Peace Prize following his efforts to broker peace between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).The nomination was submitted by Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a member of the Norwegian Parliament. He nominated Trump citing his "key role in... creating new dynamics in other protracted conflicts, such as the Kashmir border dispute between India and Pakistan".In an exclusive interview to Fox News, Tybring-Gjedde praised Trump for his efforts towards resolving protracted conflicts worldwide."For his merit, I think he has done more trying to create peace between nations than most other Peace Prize nominees," Tybring-Gjedde, a four-term member of Parliament who also serves as chairman of the Norwegian delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, told Fox News in an exclusive interview.In his nomination letter to the Nobel committee, Tybring-Gjedde said that the Trump administration has played a key role in the establishment of ...

China to Norway: Do not give Nobel Peace Prize to Hong Kong agitators

Wang's visit comes in the backdrop of Norway preparing to take up a rotational seat on the United Nations Security Council, of which China is a permanent member