Philippines journalist Ressa and Russian journalist Muratov win 2021 Nobel Peace Prize
Two journalists whose work has angered the authorities in Russia and the Philippines were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, honouring the right to...
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Nobel Peace Prize: Is this Greta Thunberg’s year?
By Nora Buli and Gwladys Fouche The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced just three weeks before world leaders gather for a climate summit that...
How does the Nobel Peace Prize work?
The laureate of the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize, one of the world’s top accolades, will be announced on Friday in Oslo. Here is a look at how...
Should Cyprus nominate the ECHR for the Nobel Peace Prize?
I refer to the report by Nick Theodoulou which was published on your newspaper’s website on December 18. I wonder whether the decision to nominate...
Cyprus nominates ECHR for Nobel Peace Prize
Cyprus will nominate the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg for next year’s Nobel Peace Prize it was announced on Wednesday. “The Council...
Bicommunal support for Nobel nomination for TC journalist
Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot parties have said they fully back the nomination of journalist Sevgul Uludag for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. In a...
Sevgul Uludag’s name put forward to Nobel committee for her work on missing persons
Turkish Cypriot author and journalist, Sevgul Uludag, has been put forward to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee for her work with the issue of missing...
Yazidi survivor hopes Nobel Prize puts spotlight back on her people
By Umberto Bacchi An Iraqi Yazidi woman held as a sex slave by Islamic State militants said she hoped winning the Nobel Peace Prize would...
Congolese Mukwege, Iraq’s Murad win 2018 Nobel Peace Prize
Denis Mukwege, a doctor who helps victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Nadia Murad, a Yazidi rights activist and survivor...
‘Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the standoff with N. Korea’
By Haejin Choi and Hyonhee Shin North Korea said on Sunday its intention to denuclearise, unveiled at a historic inter-Korean summit, was not the...
Nobel peace laureate group urges nuclear powers to ban-the-bomb
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...
Anti-nuclear campaign Ican wins 2017 Nobel Peace Prize
The Norwegian Nobel Committee, warning of a rising risk of nuclear war, awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday to a little-known international campaign...
Chinese Nobel rights activist Liu’s cancer ‘beyond surgery’
Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist Liu Xiaobo’s liver cancer can not be treated with surgery, chemotherapy or radiotherapy, Liu‘s wife said, as questions increased among his...
Chinese Nobel rights activist Liu released on medical parole
Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winning rights activist Liu Xiaobo has been released from prison on medical parole and is being treated in hospital for late-stage...
Colombia’s Santos wins Nobel Peace Prize in boost for troubled talks (Update 3)
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to end a 52-year-old war with Marxist guerrillas, a surprise...
Greek islanders tipped for Peace Nobel stoic about nomination
For months Greek fisherman Stratis Valamios would steer his boat out to sea, only instead of fish, he pulled out people. Day after day, rubber...
Colombia’s peace deal in limbo after shock referendum (Updated)
Colombia’s government and Marxist Farc guerrillas scrambled on Monday to revive a plan to end their 52-year war after voters rejected the hard-negotiated deal as too...
Colombia tipped for Nobel Peace Prize after deal to end war
A Colombian peace accord ending a half-century of war is widely tipped for the Nobel Peace Prize next week, returning the award to its roots...
Israel’s elder statesman, Shimon Peres, dies at 93
Former Israeli president and elder statesman Shimon Peres, a joint winner of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize and an influential figure in Israeli politics for...
Peres won Nobel prize but his Mideast peace dream remained elusive
By Jeffrey Heller Shimon Peres, who died on Wednesday at the age of 93, never realised his vision of a new Middle East built upon...
