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The Nobel Committee has announced Maria Corina Machado as this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner.
“She is receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela, and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy,” the committee stated in their announcement.
- The prestigious Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 has been announced at 09:00 GMT at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo, the highlight of the week of announcements from October 6 to 13.
- A total of 338 nominations have been submitted for the award, including 244 individuals and 94 organisations.
- United States President Donald Trump was among the nominees and has repeatedly insisted he deserves the prize, claiming credit for stopping multiple wars.
- But observers have said his chances of winning the 124-year-old prize were slim. Other contenders included Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms and the Committee to Protect Journalists.
- Each prize is worth 11 million Swedish kronor (about $1.2m), and winners will be given a diploma and gold medal on December 10 – the anniversary of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel’s death.
- Last year, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Japanese anti-nuclear group Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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