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People of Hong Kong nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 16 06:56 PM

A Norwegian politician has nominated the "people of Hong Kong" for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize, in a move which risks drawing China's ire. Read more »

Nobel snub fails to stop in Greta Thunberg's climate quest

Chris Stein, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Oct 12 10:00 AM

Hours after judges passed her up for the Nobel Peace Prize, Greta Thunberg stood before a cheering throng, insisting once again that something must be done about climate change -- and fast. Read more »

Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed wins 2019 Nobel Peace Prize

Reuters
Updated as of Oct 11 05:56 PM

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his peacemaking efforts with Eritrea. Read more »

Timeline: Will Greta Thunberg become the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner?

Sonia Elks, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Oct 10 09:05 AM

LONDON - Greta Thunberg is the bookmakers' firm favorite to win the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday and become the youngest ever laureate, but some experts believe her youth could count against her. Read more »

Nobel buzz for Greta and literature duo

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 03 03:44 PM

Experts are cautious, but bookies are tipping teenage climate campaigner Greta Thunberg for the Nobel Peace Prize next week, while two literature laureates will be crowned after last year's award was postponed over a sex harassment scandal. Read more »

Brazil's Amazon chief Raoni nominated for 2020 Nobel Peace Prize

Reuters
Posted at Sep 15 02:24 AM

A group of Brazilian anthropologists and environmentalists has put forward Chief Raoni Metuktire of the Kayapó tribe as a candidate for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for a lifetime of work protecting the Amazon rainforest. Read more »

Japan's PM nominated Trump for Nobel Peace Prize on US request - Asahi

Reuters
Updated as of Feb 17 01:53 PM

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe nominated US President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize last autumn after receiving a request from the US government to do so, the Asahi newspaper reported on Sunday. Read more »

Nobel Peace Prize winner hears news in surgery as wild cheers erupt

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 05 10:21 PM

Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege was operating on Friday when he learned he had won the Nobel Peace Prize, as crowds at his Panzi hospital erupted into ecstatic celebrations. Read more »

Congolese Mukwege, Iraq's Murad win 2018 Nobel Peace Prize

Nerijus Adomaitis and Terje Solsvik, Reuters
Posted at Oct 05 06:47 PM

Denis Mukwege, a gynecologist helping victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Nadia Murad, a Yazidi rights activist and survivor of sexual slavery by Islamic State, won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Read more »

Global leaders, or grassroots campaigners? Nobel Peace Prize wide open

Hazel Ward, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 05 11:38 AM

The annual Nobel prize-giving week reaches its peak as the five-member Norwegian committee ends the guessing game by announcing this year's winner. Read more »

Aung San Suu Kyi won't be stripped of Nobel Peace Prize

Reuters
Posted at Aug 30 02:03 AM

STAVANGER, Norway - The Nobel Peace Prize to Aung San Suu Kyi will not be withdrawn in the light of a United Nations report that said Myanmar's military carried out mass killings of Muslim Rohingya, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Wednesday. Read more »

'Guiding force for good': World mourns loss of Kofi Annan

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 18 09:53 PM

Here are some of the tributes Read more »

Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize, says South Korea's Moon

Hyonhee Shin, Reuters
Posted at Apr 30 06:37 PM

SEOUL - South Korean President Moon Jae-in said U.S. President Donald Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the standoff with North Korea over its nuclear weapons program, a South Korean official said on Monday. Read more »

Hong Kong pro-democracy activists 'honoured' by Nobel nomination

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 02 11:32 PM

There are growing concerns that certain liberties, including freedom of speech, are being eroded in the former British colony. Read more »

Duterte meets ex-Polish leader Walesa

Dharel Placido, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 24 08:34 AM

President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday met with former Polish president and Nobel peace prize awardee Lech Walesa. Read more »

The Day in Photos: 11 December 2017

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 11 08:15 PM

Here are the big stories today in photos. Read more »

Anti-nuke campaigners win Nobel Peace Prize

NTB Scanpix/TBerit Roald via Reuters
Posted at Dec 11 08:01 PM

Leader of the Nobel Committee Berit Reiss-Andersen, Hiroshima survivor Setsuko Thurlow and Executive Director of ICAN (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) Beatrice Fihn, are seen at the City Hall on the occasion of the award ceremony of the Nobel Peace Prize to ICAN, in Oslo, Norway on Sunday. Read more »

Nobel peace laureate group urges nuclear powers to adopt ban-the-bomb treaty

Gwladys Fouche, Reuters
Posted at Dec 11 12:16 AM

The leader of the group that won this year's Nobel Peace Prize on Sunday urged nuclear nations to adopt a United Nations treaty banning atomic weapons in order to prevent "the end of us". Read more »

ICAN: staunch campaigners for an end to nuclear weapons

Nina Larson, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Oct 06 05:40 PM

The Geneva-based ICAN has for the past decade been sounding the alarm over the massive dangers posed by nuclear weapons and campaigning for a global ban. Read more »

Anti-nuclear campaign ICAN wins Nobel Peace Prize

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 06 05:34 PM

ICAN won the Nobel Peace Prize for its decade-long campaign to rid the world of the atomic bomb as nuclear-fuelled crises swirl over North Korea and Iran. Read more »