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The recipient of this year's Nobel Peace Prize is a fast-dwindling group of atomic bomb survivors who are facing down the shrinking time they have left to convey the firsthand horror they witnessed 79 years ago. Nihon Hidankyo, the Japanese organization of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was awarded for its decadeslong activism against nuclear weapons. The survivors, known as hibakusha, see the prize and the international attention as their last chance to get their message out to younger generations. We must seriously think about the succession of our messages. We must thoroughly hand over from our generation to the future generations, Toshiyuki Mimaki, senior member of the Hiroshima branch of Hidankyo, told reporters Friday night. With the honor of the Nobel Peace Prize, we now have a responsibility to get our messages handed down not only in Japan but also across the world. The honour rewards members' grassroots efforts to keep telling their stori
Nihon Hidankyo is a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, known as Hibakusha.
The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded Thursday to South Korean author Han Kang for what the Nobel committee called her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life. Kang, 53, won the International Booker Prize in 2016 for The Vegetarian, an unsettling novel in which a woman's decision to stop eating meat has devastating consequences. Mats Malm, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy's Nobel Committee announced the prize in Stockholm.
Former Google researcher Geoffrey Hinton, meanwhile, won the Nobel prize for physics on Tuesday, alongside US scientist John Hopfield, for earlier discoveries in machine learning
The prize was also the second this week to involve artificial intelligence, highlighting the technology's growing significance in scientific research
Honoured for neural nets, Hopfield and Hinton's Nobel raises questions on awarding contributions outside traditional physics
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Hopfield's research is carried out at Princeton University and Hinton works at the University of Toronto
The prize was awarded for their discovery of microRNA and its role in regulating genes after transcription
The prize week coincides with the Oct 7 anniversary of the Hamas-led attacks on Israel, which began a year of bloodshed and war across the West Asia
People in Bangladesh have welcomed the new interim government led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, hoping it would restore order, end repression and hold a fair election to facilitate a democratic transition of power. Yunus, 84, on Thursday took oath as the head of an interim government, replacing Sheikh Hasina who abruptly resigned and fled to India leaving the country in turmoil following deadly protests against her government over a controversial quota system in jobs. He was sworn in as the chief advisor - a position equivalent to prime minister. Women's rights activist Farida Akhtar, right-wing party Hefazat-e-Islam's deputy chief AFM Khalid Hossain, Grameen Telecom trustee Nurjahan Begum, freedom fighter Sharmeen Murshid, chairman of Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board Supradip Chakma, Prof Bidhan Ranjan Roy and former foreign secretary Touhid Hossain are among the advisory council members. Dhaka University Professor Emeritus Serajul Islam Choudhury said that one of the
Amid crisis, Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin announced that Muhammad Yunus was appointed as the leader of Bangladesh's interim government