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Black Lives Matter is nominated for a Nobel peace prize
Black Lives Matter has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel peace prize -- a pitch that lauds the movement's fight against racial injustice but takes little note of the decidedly...
UN food agency warns 2021 will be worse than 2020
UNITED NATIONS — The head of the World Food Program says the Nobel Peace Prize has given the UN agency a spotlight and megaphone to warn world leaders that next...
Trump has met the criteria for the Nobel Peace Prize — but he still won't win it
If Alfred Nobel had any say in the matter, President Donald Trump would be a top contender for the peace prize that bears the long-dead Swedish industrialist’s name. “Trump is...
The World Food Programme wins Nobel Peace Prize
The United Nations’ World Food Programme won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its efforts to combat hunger and food insecurity around the world. The prize, which was...
Donald Trump receives third nomination for 2020 Nobel Peace Prize
President Trump has scored a hat trick of nominations for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize, this time for the president's foreign policy philosophy, dubbed the "Trump Doctrine," according to a...
Vladimir Putin nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Putin was not nominated by the Kremlin.
The Democrats' partisan damage: Goodwin
First, it was the United Arab Emirates and Israel making peace. Then it was Serbia and Kosovo agreeing to set aside political disputes to sign an economic deal. And now...
Trump gets another Nobel Peace Prize nomination
In a Friday morning tweet, Magnus Jacobsson, a member of the Swedish Parliament, announced he was nominating the Trump administration and the two European nations.
Trump nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
President Trump has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for helping broker a peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, according to a report. Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a...
Trump wins the Nobel Prize for Israel-UAE peace deal (not)
OSLO, December 10, 2020 -- Fresh off a surprise ballot-box victory in November that stunned pundits and pollsters back home, and by turns baffled and enraged his Democratic opponents, a...
National security chief says Trump should be 'front runner' for Nobel Peace Prize
National security adviser Robert O'Brien said Thursday that President Trump should be the front-runner for the Nobel Peace Prize because of his work in the Middle East.
Greta Thunberg nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has been nominated for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize by two Swedish lawmakers, a report said on Monday. Jens Holm and Hakan Svenneling, members of...
Trump claims he was robbed of Nobel Peace Prize
President Trump says he was robbed — of the Nobel Peace Prize. While speaking at a rally in Toledo, Ohio, this week the billionaire said he deserved the prize, recently...
![“It is true, [Barack] Obama did not do much before winning” a Nobel Peace Prize, says author Geir Lundestad, who was on the committee who awarded it to him.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/10/nobel.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=306&h=204&crop=1)
Why Obama got a Nobel Peace Prize for nothing — and Trump never will for anything
President Barack Obama’s first act as a Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2009 — nine months after he took the oath of office — was to try to wriggle out...
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed awarded 2019 Nobel Peace Prize
OSLO, Norway — The 2019 Nobel Peace has been awarded to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. Ahmed was cited for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular...
Teen activist nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Norwegian lawmakers have nominated Swedish 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg, who has become a prominent voice in campaigns against climate change, for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Russian Nobel winner Zhores Alferov dies at 88
MOSCOW — Zhores Alferov, a Russian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate, has died. He was 88. His death was announced Saturday by the State Duma, the lower house of the...
Nobel winners want action against war zone sex assaults
OSLO, Norway — One of the winners of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize says the attention the prize has drawn to sexual violence against women in war zones must be...
Activists win Nobel Peace Prize for efforts to end sexual violence in war
OSLO, Norway — The Nobel Peace Prize on Friday was awarded to a Congolese doctor and a Yazidi former captive of the Islamic State group for their work to highlight...
Kofi Annan, Former UN Secretary-General, dies at 80
Kofi Annan, a charismatic international diplomat and the first black African to become United Nations secretary-general, died Saturday at age 80. The Nobel Peace Prize winner’s death in Geneva came...