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Trump to meet Venezuela's opposition leader Machado on Thursday, says White House official

January 13, 2026 12:23 am

Machado's visit to the White House comes as the US president declined to back her following the US military strikes in Venezuela and the subsequent capture of Caracas' deposed leader Nicolas Maduro.

‘Cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred’: Nobel Committee on María Corina Machado offering to give her prize to Donald Trump

January 10, 2026 9:12 pm

As a matter of principle, the Norwegian Nobel Committee will not comment upon what the Peace Prize Laureates may say and do after they have been awarded the prize.

Why Hay Festival Cartagena faces an author boycott over Nobel winner María Corina Machado

January 01, 2026 4:22 pm

Three writers pulled out of the Hay Festival in Colombia after it invited Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, igniting a debate over whether literary platforms can remain neutral.

Iran arrests Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, supporters say

December 13, 2025 12:20 am

Mohammadi had been serving 13 years and nine months on charges of collusion against state security and propaganda against Iran’s government.

Venezuelan opposition leader Machado greets supporters in Norway after Nobel ceremony

December 11, 2025 7:23 am

Machado had been in hiding since Jan. 9, when she was briefly detained after joining supporters in a protest in Caracas, Venezuela’s capital.

Why Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado won't attend ceremony to receive award

December 10, 2025 5:04 pm

Maria Corina Machado, who last appeared in public 11 months ago, was not in the Norwegian capital on the day of the ceremony, Nobel Institute director Kristian Berg Harpviken said

‘Brilliance’ is not unbiased. Nor is the Nobel Prize

October 14, 2025 12:24 pm

Omar Yaghi’s Nobel Prize in science and Maria Corina Machado’s in peace are really a measure of how visibility and recognition are shaped by global politics

Trump deserved the Nobel Peace Prize as much as anyone. Here’s why

October 14, 2025 11:41 am

The prize is both a PR exercise and a way to champion ‘Western values’. The US President has upended both, as well as the global order that made such hypocrisies possible

Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee to join University of Zurich after MIT rejects Trump funding terms

October 12, 2025 12:29 am

Their move comes as MIT becomes the first major US university to reject new federal funding conditions introduced by the Trump administration.

Was Nobel Peace Prize winner Machado inspired by Mahatma Gandhi? Posts from 2010 resurface online

October 11, 2025 11:11 am

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on October 10th to the Venezuelan Opposition leader for "the most extraordinary examples of civilian courage."

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Malala, Satyarthi receive their Nobel Peace Prizes in Oslo

December 10, 2014 7:57 pm

Malala became by far the youngest laureate, widely praised for her global campaigning since she was shot in the head in 2012.

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Meet the activists fighting sexual violence who received the Nobel Peace Prize

June 22, 2020 6:14 pm

Nadia Murad, a survivor of sexual violence by the Islamic State, and Dr Denis Mukwege, a gynecological surgeon, were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their campaigns against the use of rape as a weapon of war.

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