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Venezuela Shuts Norway Embassy After Nobel for 'Witch'

Move follows Peace Prize for opposition leader Machado

(Newser) - Venezuela has shut down its embassy in Norway just days after opposition leader María Corina Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize . The Venezuelan government did not mention Machado's award in its official statement, instead framing the closure as part of a broader restructuring of its foreign service....

Peace Prize Winner on Call: 'I Certainly Do Not Deserve This'

Nobel award recognized Maria Corina Machado's fight for democracy in Venezuela

(Newser) - Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado learned early Friday that she'd been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in an emotional phone call, captured on video , from Kristian Berg Harpviken of the Norwegian Nobel Institute. "Oh my God," Machado told Harpviken, per CBS News . "I am...

Putin: Nobel Committee's 'Credibility' Has Been Lost

He praises Trump's 'efforts to resolve complex crises'

(Newser) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday gave a nod to President Trump's efforts to broker peace—even though the Nobel Peace Prize went to somebody else. Speaking at a summit in Tajikistan, Putin praised Trump for his ceasefire efforts in Gaza and Ukraine, the Washington Post reports. "...

Friedman: Trump May Deserve Two Nobels if This Works

But the New York Times columnist fears the president underestimates the harder work ahead

(Newser) - Thomas Friedman is usually firing criticism at President Trump, but the New York Times columnist praises the president and his team for pulling off the "geopolitical bank shot" that resulted in the Israeli-Hamas peace deal. It's "an intriguing new model" of a two-state solution, "one that...

White House Slams Nobels Over Peace Prize Pick

Committee puts 'politics over peace,' says a spokesperson

(Newser) - President Trump did not become a Nobel laureate on Friday morning, and the White House is none too happy about it.
  • "The Nobel Committee proved they place politics over peace," wrote spokesperson Steven Cheung.
  • "President Trump will continue making peace deals, ending wars, and saving lives. He
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Nobel Peace Prize Winner Has Been in Hiding All Year

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado praised as 'key unifying figure'

(Newser) - This year's Nobel Peace Prize winner , Venezuelan opposition activist Maria Corina Machado is a "key, unifying figure in a political opposition that was once deeply divided—an opposition that found common ground in the demand for free elections and representative government," Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of...

Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Venezuelan Opposition Leader

Maria Corina Machado awarded prize for 'tireless work promoting democratic rights'

(Newser) - The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 is Maria Corina Machado, a woman who has been described as Venezuela's " symbol of resistance " to Nicolas Maduro's regime. The Nobel Committee said Friday morning that it had decided to award the prize to the opposition leader...

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Trump's Push for a Nobel Comes to a Head on Friday

Israelis, Palestinians praise him, though panel's selection came before peace deal

(Newser) - The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday, and the big question is whether it will go to President Trump. The president and the White House have made no secret of his desire to win it, with repeated references to his role in ending conflicts...

RFK Jr.: Trump Deserves Nobel for COVID Shots

Health secretary has been a critic of the vaccines

(Newser) - Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy fielded a tricky question on Thursday from Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy, a medical doctor: Does President Trump deserve a Nobel Peace Prize for Operation Warp Speed, the US campaign to roll out vaccines during the pandemic? "Absolutely," responded Kennedy, reports the Washington Post ...

Trump Jokes: These Talks Might Get Me Into Heaven

'I'm hearing I'm not doing well'

(Newser) - President Trump has made no secret that he thinks his peacemaking efforts are worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize. But in an interview with Fox News on Tuesday, Trump joked that his talks with Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky might yield him a higher reward, reports the Hill :
  • "If
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Hillary: I'll Nominate Trump for a Nobel if He Pulls This Off

President has been clear that he wants to be considered for peace prize

(Newser) - With the Alaska summit upon us , President Trump is getting a rare bit of encouragement from one of his biggest political foes—Hillary Clinton. While on the Raging Moderates podcast of Fox News co-host Jessica Tarlov, Clinton said she would consider nominating Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize should he...

Netanyahu Nominating Trump for Nobel Peace Prize

And more from the leaders' latest meeting in DC

(Newser) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told President Trump that he was nominating the US leader for a Nobel Peace Prize as the two took a victory lap on Monday after their recent joint strikes on Iran 's nuclear facilities, with both hailing the 12-day war as an unmitigated success,...

Pakistan, India Differ on a Trump Peace Prize

President receives new nomination a day after saying he wouldn't win

(Newser) - A day after President Trump, who's been up for the honor multiple times, discounted his chances of winning a Nobel Peace Prize, Pakistan's government announced it's nominated him again. Trump deserves the award "in recognition of his decisive diplomatic intervention and pivotal leadership during the recent...

GOP Lawmaker Nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize

Issa says president represents 'the national resolve of peace through strength'

(Newser) - "No one deserves it more," Republican US Rep. Darrell Issa said in a post on X Monday, announcing that he is nominating President Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize. Issa, who represents California's 48th District, tells Fox News that Trump's election last year "tangibly kickstarted...

Lech Walesa: Trump-Zelensky Meeting Filled Me With 'Horror'

Polish democracy hero has hard words for president's treatment of Zelensky

(Newser) - Poland's democracy hero Lech Walesa and dozens of other former Polish political prisoners have written a letter to President Trump, telling him that his treatment of Ukraine's president at the Oval Office last week filled them "with horror and distaste." Walesa, a Nobel Peace Prize winner...

Atomic Bomb Survivors Win Nobel Peace Prize

Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo advocates against use of nuclear weapons

(Newser) - This year's Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for its activism against nuclear weapons. Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said the award was made as the "taboo...

Latest Nobel Peace Laureate Goes on Hunger Strike

Latest laureate Narges Mohammadi is in Iranian prison, protesting access to health care, mandatory hijabs

(Newser) - Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi began a hunger strike Monday over being blocked along with other inmates from getting medical care and to protest the country's mandatory headscarves for women, said a campaign advocating for the activist. The decision by Mohammadi, 51, increases pressure on Iran's theocracy...

Peace Prize Winner Fought Oppression of Women in Iran

Narges Mohammadi is currently jailed by the regime

(Newser) - Imprisoned activist Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for fighting the oppression of women in Iran. "She fights for women against systematic discrimination and oppression," Berit Reiss-Andersen, the chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee who announced the prize in Oslo. Authorities arrested Mohammadi in November...

Nobel Team Rescinds Invite to 3 Nations

Invites to Russia, Belarus, Iran withdrawn after Swedish lawmakers said they'd boycott awards

(Newser) - The Nobel Foundation on Saturday retracted its invitation for representatives of Russia, Belarus, and Iran to attend this year's Nobel Prize award ceremonies after the controversial decision "provoked strong reactions." Several Swedish lawmakers said Friday they would boycott this year's Nobel Prize award ceremonies in the...

Nobel Peace Prize Winner Gets 'Simply Appalling' Sentence

Belarus activist Ales Bialiatski sentenced to 10 years in prison

(Newser) - Ales Bialiatski was in prison when he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last year and he was sentenced to another 10 years on Friday. The 60-year-old, one of three activists in Eastern Europe who shared the prize in 2022, was convicted of financing "activities that grossly violate public...

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