Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado has left Oslo, her coordinator of international relations, Pedro Urruchurtu Noselli, wrote in a post on X. “As confirmed by the prime minister of Norway, she is no longer in the city of Oslo,” Noselli’s post said. “She is doing well and during these … Read more
Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado went to Norway despite a travel ban imposed by Venezuelan authorities. Published On 17 Dec 202517 Dec 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has left Oslo after travelling to Norway in secret last week to collect her Nobel Peace Prize, … Read more
Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro is furious after the Nobel Peace Prize went to opposition leader Maria Corina Machado. She dedicated her award to United States President Donald Trump, who is reportedly pushing for regime change in Venezuela. What does the award mean for Maduro’s hold on power and Venezuela’s struggle for democracy? Published On 16 … Read more
STOCKHOLM — Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for “having explained innovation-driven economic growth.” Mokyr is from Northwestern University, Aghion from the College de France and the London School of Economics, and Howitt from Brown University. The Nobel committee said Mokyr “demonstrated that if innovations are … Read more
Donald Trump cold-called Norway’s finance minister last month to ask about a nomination for the Nobel peace prize, Norwegian press reported on Thursday. The Norwegian outlet Dagens Næringsliv, citing unnamed sources, reported: “Out of the blue, while finance minister Jens Stoltenberg was walking down the street in Oslo, Donald Trump called … He wanted the … Read more
Nihon Hidankyo, the Japanese atomic bomb survivors’ group, has accepted the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize “for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons”. Now in their 80s and 90s, members of the group who survived American bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki accepted the award at a ceremony in Oslo’s City Hall … Read more
Pair awarded ‘for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks’, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences says. John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton have won the Nobel Prize in physics 2024 for their pioneering work in the field of machine learning. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Tuesday the scientists … Read more