4 h. ago You can’t give Nobel Peace Prize to someone else, committee tells winner Machado before Trump meeting

Warning comes after U.S. president says he would be ‘honored’ to accept prize if offered by Venezuelan opposition leader during meeting in Washington

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8 h. ago Nobel Institute rejects María Corina Machado’s offer to share peace prize with Trump

Organisers clarify award ‘cannot be revoked, shared or transferred’ after Venezuelan opposition leader’s commentsThe organisers of the Nobel peace prize have said it “cannot be revoked, shared or transferred” after Venezuela’s opposition leader, María Corina Machado, said she wanted to give her award to Donald Trump.When Machado was named Nobel laureate in October, it was seen as a snub by the White House, despite Machado rushing to dedicate the prize to the US president and his “decisive support of our cause”. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Woman stabbed one boyfriend, hit another with lamp and warned she'd 'splatter' her step mum

But Rachel Tinsley was freed from prison on the eve of her 40th birthday

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20 h. ago Myanmar junta holds second phase of election widely decried as a ‘sham exercise’

UN and many western countries as well as human rights groups say that in the absence of a meaningful opposition the election is neither free, fair nor credibleVoters in war-torn Myanmar queued up on Sunday to cast their ballots in the second stage of a military-run election, following low turnout in the initial round of polls that have been widely criticised as a tool to formalise junta rule.Myanmar has been ravaged by conflict since the military ousted a civilian government in a 2021 coup and detained its leader, Nobel peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, sparking a civil war that has engulfed large parts of the impoverished nation of 51 million people. Continue reading...

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20 h. ago Venezuela's Nobel Peace Prize winner is barred from giving her trophy to Trump despite arguing 'he deserves it'

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has declared it impossible for Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado to give the Nobel Peace Prize over to Donald Trump.

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52 h. ago Venezuela opposition leader to offer Trump her peace prize as a Fox host greases desperate lobbying campaign

Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado might have found the key to swaying the US to place her in Venezuelan leadership: handing over her Nobel Peace Prize to Donald Trump.

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63 h. ago Trump says he should receive a separate Nobel Peace Prize for the ‘eight and a quarter’ wars he claims to have solved

Trump revealed plans to meet with Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado next week

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2 d. ago Human rights activist first confirmed prisoner released in Venezuela

Venezuela’s top lawmaker said a significant number of prisoners will be freed in the coming hours

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3 d. ago Female prison officer who became pregnant with inmate's baby after starting a relationship with him while he was on overnight release is spared jail

Sarah Barnett, 33, who worked as a member of operational support staff at HMP Sudbury in Derbys, spent two nights with Scott Taylor after he was temporarily freed from the Category D prison.

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3 d. ago Russia frees French political scholar in a prisoner swap for a basketball player

France's president says a political scholar from the country who was serving a three-year sentence in Russia and facing new charges of espionage has been freed in a prisoner swap with France

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4 d. ago María Corina Machado to publish book on political vision for Venezuela amid upheaval

Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel peace prize winner will lay out vision for the country in book publishing in USVenezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado will publish a book in the US that lays out her vision for Venezuela’s political reconstruction as the country faces significant upheaval.The 120-page work titled The Freedom Manifesto is being released by Regnery Publishing, a conservative book publisher acquired by Skyhorse Publishing in 2023. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Trump slams 'foolish' Nobel Peace Prize snub as Russia 'would take all Ukraine' without him

In a social media rant, Donald Trump claims he has saved 'millions of lives' and 'single-handedly ended 8 wars' saying the US will always be there for NATO 'even if they won't be there for us'

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5 d. ago Why Trump snubbed Venezuela opposition leader Machado after she beat him to Nobel Peace Prize

A White House source said Machado would be president of Venezuela if she had turned down the Nobel Peace Prize in favor of Trump

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5 d. ago Opposition leader Machado says she hasn’t spoken to Trump since attack as she vows to return to Venezuela – live

María Corina Machado tells Fox News she would share her Nobel peace prize with US president after removal of Nicolás MaduroDeposed Maduro pleads not guilty after capture in shock US attack on VenezuelaUS foes and allies denounce Trump’s ‘crime of aggression’ in Venezuela at UN meetingThe United States has faced widespread condemnation for a “crime of aggression” in Venezuela at an emergency meeting of the United Nations security council.Brazil, China, Colombia, Cuba, Eritrea, Mexico, Russia, South Africa and Spain were among countries that have denounced the weekend US attack in Venezuela.I am deeply concerned about the possible intensification of instability in the country, the potential impact on the region, and the precedent it may set for how relations between and among states are conducted. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago 'Petty' Trump sours on Venezuela opposition leader over petty Nobel Peace Prize 'sin'

In a dramatic maneuver that was rehearsed for months, the Trump administration successfully captured Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro at his home.

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8 d. ago Female Nobel Peace Prize winner who's set to become Venezuela's new president after Maduro was captured by Trump

Opposition leaders Corina Machado and Edmundo González could be next in line to succeed in the South American country, according to a Caracas expert.

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8 d. ago Brits escape death sentence after smuggling £300k worth of cocaine in Angel Delight

Drug mules Lisa Stocker and Jon Collyer have been freed from their Bali prison hellhole, getting back to the UK within months despite risking the firing squad over their cocaine-smuggling scheme

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1 week ago Freed prisoners are committing a record number of serious offences, probation watchdog reveals

Freed prisoners are committing a record number of serious offences including murder and rape, the chief inspector of probation has warned.

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1 week ago Hot mic catches Trump moaning to Netanyahu about not getting credit for ending wars or the Nobel Peace Prize

Trump’s complaint came as Netanyahu announced he would award president with his country’s highest cultural honor, the Israel Award

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2 w. ago Venezuela says it released 99 people detained for protesting 2024 presidential election

Government said the move was due to its ‘unrestricted respect for human rights’ in the face of US aggressionVenezuela has said it has carried out its largest release of political prisoners this year, claiming to have freed 99 people detained for taking part in protests after the 2024 election, widely believed to have been stolen by the dictator Nicolás Maduro, as it comes under increasing military pressure from the US.Civil society organisations have treated the news with caution and stressed that the releases were insufficient, noting that at least 900 political prisoners remain in the country. Continue reading...

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