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08 October 2021, Norway, Oslo: The chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize Committee, Berit Reiss-Andersen announces the laureate of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Ressa and Dmitrij Muratov in the Nobel Institute. Photo: Heiko Junge/ntb/dpa

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Nobel Peace Prize goes to journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov

The Nomad Today/dpa 10/8/21

The Norwegian Nobel Committee highlights "their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression"

20 January 2021, US, Joint Base Andrews: US President Donald Trump gestures as he arrives with First Lady Melania Trump at a farewell ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base. Trump left Washington ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. Photo: -/EUROPA PRESS/dpa

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Trump nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by right-wing Estonian lawmaker

The Nomad Today/dpa 2/5/21

The winner is to be announced in October.

A medal with the portrait of Alfred Nobel can be seen in the Nobel Museum in this file photo from December 12, 2007. US poet Louise Gluck was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her unmistakable poetic voice," the Swedish Academy said on Thursday. Photo: Kay Nietfeld/dpa.

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Nobel laureates to be honoured at ceremonies adjusted for pandemic

The Nomad Today/dpa 12/10/20

No laureates have travelled to Stockholm either due to the pandemic, and just as in Oslo the banquet in their honour has been cancelled.

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Fight against hunger earns Peace Nobel for World Food Programme

The Nomad Today/dpa 10/9/20

"I hope, I really do, that this award, this prize, will awaken many in the world to realize that there are still people going to bed every night hungry and starving to death," says David…

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'Unmistakable poetic voice' earns Literature Nobel for Louise Gluck

The Nomad Today/dpa 10/8/20

She was born in 1943 in New York and works as a professor of English at Yale University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Oslo City Hall, where the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony usually takes place. Photo: Pixabay.

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Nobel Peace Prize ceremony moves to new venue due to pandemic

The Nomad Today/dpa 9/22/20

The prize-giving ceremonies are held in Stockholm and Oslo on 10 December.

26 August 2020, Ukraine, Kiev: Members of the Belarusian community in Ukraine and Ukrainian activists burn red and white smoke bombs and wave the flag of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic (the Belarusian opposition flag) during rally in solidarity with the anti-Lukashenko protests in Belarus Photo: Serg Glovny/dpa.

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Belarusian Nobel laureate rallies protesters as over 50 arrested

The Nomad Today/dpa 8/27/20

The latest demonstrations saw 50 arrests, the highest number on any day this week, as the number of people joining the unauthorized protests continued to rise.