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Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teen who has become the global face of the youth climate change movement, didn’t win the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize.

Sixteen-year-old Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg has been tagged by bookmakers as an early favorite for next week’s Nobel Peace Prize.

“They gave one to Obama immediately upon his ascent to the presidency, and he had no idea why he got it,” Trump told reporters. “And you know what? That was the only thing I agreed with him on.”

“I never said I didn’t,” Abe said in response to a question from Parliament lawmakers in Japan.

Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Yazidi activist Nadia Murad, who survived horrific sexual abuse at the hands of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), received the Nobel Peace Prize Monday.

A Yazidi victim of the Islamic State and a Congolese doctor won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict.

In the wake of his Singapore summit, President Trump is #Gaining in public opinion.   For instance, a June 14 poll from Monmouth University offers Trump plenty of good news.

Through the twists and turns on the road to the improbable U.S.-North Korea summit, Tony Giannini, 70, never wavered in his faith that it would happen.

President Trump just became the Nobel Peace Prize committee’s worst nightmare. As he didn’t neglect to remind us in his hilarious post North Korea summit press conference, President Trump just saved maybe 30 million people from nuclear annihilation.

With the coming North/South Korea entente you might have thought that, finally, President Donald J. Trump had achieved something even progressives would applaud.

Students at the University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) said that President Trump should not receive a Nobel Peace Prize, but could not explain why former President Barack Obama received the same honor in 2009.

Eighteen House Republicans signed a letter sent to the Norwegian Nobel Committee Wednesday formally nominating President Trump for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize.

I agree with South Korean President Moon Jae-in: if anyone deserves the Nobel prize for bringing about peace between North and South Korea it’s Donald Trump.

During a Monday morning appearance on CNN’s basement-rated New Day, far-left pundit Ana Navarro said comedienne Michelle Wolf “should be the one getting the Nobel Peace Prize.”

South Korea’s executive Blue House confirmed on Monday that President Moon Jae-in said U.S. President Donald Trump “should win the Nobel Peace Prize” for his efforts in Korea.

Rep. Luke Messer (R-IN) is praising President Donald Trump for his tough stance toward the Communist regime in North Korea, including a strategy that led dictator Kim Jong Un to ask to meet with the United States about curtailing its nuclear weapons program.

Iranian Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi urged the United States and international community to support nationwide protests in Iran with political sanctions and not economic measures that could hit the general population.

The narco-terrorist group FARC has announced that it has nominated its leader Rodrigo Londoño (alias “Timochenko”) to run for president of Colombia in 2018.

An international committee based in Italy is preparing to nominate open borders Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) which ferry migrants to Europe for the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize.

Israel begins marking one year since the death of former president Shimon Peres this week with memorial events, while the respected statesman’s memoir is also being released.

Unidentified assailants shot dead seven members of Syria’s White Helmets rescue service early Saturday during a raid on their base in a jihadist-held northwestern town, the group said.

Ten Nobel Peace Prize winners have appealed to Saudi Arabia’s king and crown prince to show mercy and halt the executions of 14 young people sentenced to death for participating in protests in 2012.

2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo died in Chinese custody at age 61 on Thursday, reportedly of multiple organ failure due to liver cancer. His treatment is a devastating indictment of China’s human rights abuses and should bring increased international attention to how the authoritarian regime in Beijing silences dissenters.

A museum dedicated to Yasser Arafat, including the room where the Palestinian leader spent much of his final years, will open on Wednesday ahead of the anniversary of his death.

Thousands of Israelis are gathering at the Tel Aviv square where Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated to mark the 21st anniversary of the former prime minister’s death and remember his call for peace.

Israel unveiled Friday a headstone at the grave of ex-president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres who died last month, at a ceremony attended by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, protesting the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize going to neighboring head of state Juan Manuel Santos, has announced the launch of the “Hugo Chávez Award for Peace and Sovereignty of the Peoples.”

Ingrid Betancourt, a former Colombian presidential candidate who spent six years as a hostage of the FARC, said Friday that she believed FARC leaders deserved to share the Nobel Peace Prize with this year’s winner, President Juan Manuel Santos.

On the eve of the announcement of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, various experts and committee members predicted a Peace Prize for Colombia’s president, Juan Manuel Santos, was “out of the question” thanks to the Colombian people rejecting an amnesty deal for the FARC.

Both Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and FARC terror group chief “Timochenko” have been dropped from the shortlist of Nobel Peace Prize candidates after the nation rejected a peace deal that would have allowed the FARC to evolve into a political party.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party published a cartoon of late president Shimon Peres heading for hell a day before his funeral, which was attended by Abbas.

TEL AVIV – President Barack Obama has ordered all U.S. flags at the White House and all federal property across the country and abroad to be flown at half-mast memory of late statesman Shimon Peres.

TEL AVIV – A day and a half after the death of Israeli statesman Shimon Peres and not a single Arab leader has said they would join countless world leaders – including President Barack Obama – to attend his funeral.

TEL AVIV – Gaza-based terror group Hamas urged Palestinians to hold a “Day of Rage” on Friday, during the time that former statesman Shimon Peres will be buried in Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV – President Barack Obama and other world leaders will arrive in Israel for the funeral of former prime minister Shimon Peres on Friday, a spokesman for Israel’s foreign ministry said Wednesday.

TEL AVIV – President Barack Obama joined statesmen from all over the world in eulogizing former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who passed away at the age of 93 on Tuesday night, calling him “the essence of Israel itself.”