Nobel Prizes
Workers take their break near the Olympics Village for Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games and Paralympic Winter Games, during a media tour in Zhangjiakou in northwestern China's Hebei province on Wednesday, July 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Nobel Peace Prize winner says Olympics deserves the award

Jul. 19, 2021 08:27 AM EDT

FILE - In this Saturday, May 22, 2021 file photo, Berhanu Nega, leader of the Ethiopian Citizens for Social Justice (EZEMA) opposition party, attends an election rally at Agena town in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. The country is due to vote in a general election on Monday, June, 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene, File)
Ethiopia finally set to vote as PM vows 1st fair election

Jun. 18, 2021 02:37 AM EDT

Nobel doctor calls sexual violence in conflict a `pandemic'

By Edith M. Lederer Apr. 14, 2021 08:38 PM EDT
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr. Denis Mukwege warned Wednesday that the scourge of sexual violence and rape in all conflicts is now “a...

Residents of a local neighborhood applaud as an anti-coup student protester returns home after being released from jail, Friday, March 26, 2021, in Yangon, Myanmar. (AP Photo)
Myanmar protest deaths reach 320 as US, UK, impose sanctions

Mar. 26, 2021 03:59 AM EDT

329 candidates for 2021 Nobel Peace Prize

Mar. 01, 2021 11:27 AM EST
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Norwegian Nobel Committee said Monday that there are 329 candidates — 234 individuals and 95 organizations — that were nominated...

FILE - In this Nov. 1, 2020 file photo, former candidate for Georgia Governor Stacey Abrams speaks during a rally for then Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., in Duluth, Ga. Belarusian opposition figures, Hong Kong-pro-democracy activists, the global Black Lives Matter movement, a jailed Russian opposition leader and two former White House senior advisers are among this year's nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)
EXPLAINER: How Nobel Peace Prize nominations come about

By Jan M. Olsen Feb. 02, 2021 05:13 AM EST

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., walks to the chamber at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021, as the House of Representatives pursues an article of impeachment against President Donald Trump for his role in inciting an angry mob to storm the Capitol last week. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
The Latest: Pelosi wants fines for bypassing House security

Jan. 13, 2021 03:55 PM EST

FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2018, file photo, Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami signs his autograph on his novel "Killing Commendatore" during a press conference in Tokyo. Murakami said politicians need to reduce public uncertainty and fear over the coronavirus by speaking sincerely about the pandemic. Murakami, in a two-hour live New Year's Eve show on Dec. 31, 2020, urged political leaders to “talk honestly from the gut” to the people to encourage them to help slow rising infections which are on the verge of getting out of control. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
Murakami urges politicians to speak sincerely about virus

By Mari Yamaguchi Jan. 01, 2021 05:35 AM EST

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks to empty seats in the University Hall, during the digital broadcast of the Nobel Peace Prize Forum in Oslo, Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. (Heiko Junge/NTB via AP)
UN boss: pandemic has exposed gloomy picture of world

Dec. 11, 2020 10:58 AM EST

Nobel Committee chair Berit Reiss-Andersen makes a statement at the Nobel Institute as part of the digital award ceremony for this year's Peace Prize winner, the World Food Program (WFP), in Oslo, Norway, Thursday Dec. 10, 2020. Reiss-Andersen makes a statement in Oslo as part of the Nobel Peace Prize digital award ceremony and an acceptance speech will be made by WFP Executive Director David Beasley in Rome, Italy. (Heiko Junge / NTB via AP)
U.N. food agency receives Nobel prize in online event

By Frances D'emilio And Jan M. Olsen Dec. 10, 2020 05:01 AM EST

FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2012, file photo, Bob Dylan performs in Los Angeles. Universal Music Publishing Group is buying legendary singer Bob Dylan’s entire catalog of songs. The company said Monday, Dec. 7, 2020, that the deal covers 600 song copyrights including “Blowin’ In The Wind,” “The Times They Are a-Changin’,” and “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door,” “Tangled Up In Blue." (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)
The Dylan catalog, a 60-year rock 'n' roll odyssey, is sold

By David Bauder Dec. 07, 2020 12:55 PM EST

In this Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020, photo provided by Nobel Prize Outreach, Louise Glück stands beside the medal awarded to her for the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature outside her home in Cambridge, Mass. The pomp and ceremony of the Nobel prize ceremonies were altered this year amid measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Instead, the laureates' achievements are being rewarded at low-key ceremonies where they live or work. (Daniel Ebersole/ Nobel Prize Outreach via AP)
Nobel ceremonies go low-key this year because of coronavirus

Dec. 07, 2020 06:29 AM EST

FILE - In this Nov. 26, 2018, file photo, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad talks during a joint statement along with Nobel Peace Laureat Denis Mukwege and European Union Foreign Policy chief Federica Mogherini, at European Council's Europa building in Brussels. Murad says the coronavirus pandemic has increased trafficking of women and gender-based violence, leaving the health and safety of women “on the line.” The 27-year-old activist, who was forced into sexual slavery by Islamic State fighters in Iraq, says curfews, lockdowns and travel restrictions imposed by governments to slow the spread of the virus “have had unintended consequences on women worldwide.” (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)
Nobel laureate says pandemic raising violence, trafficking

By Edith M. Lederer Dec. 01, 2020 01:51 AM EST

FILE - World Food Program (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley speaks to the media about the organization's Nobel Peace Prize win, at the airport in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, late Friday, Oct. 9, 2020. Beasley says the Nobel Peace Prize has given the U.N. agency a spotlight and megaphone to warn world leaders that next year is going to be worse than this year, and without billions of dollars “we are going to have famines of biblical proportions in 2021.” (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)
2020 Nobel Peace ceremony won't be held in person in Oslo

Nov. 18, 2020 06:38 AM EST

FILE - World Food Program (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley speaks to the media about the organization's Nobel Peace Prize win, at the airport in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, late Friday, Oct. 9, 2020. Beasley says the Nobel Peace Prize has given the U.N. agency a spotlight and megaphone to warn world leaders that next year is going to be worse than this year, and without billions of dollars “we are going to have famines of biblical proportions in 2021.” (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)
Nobel UN food agency warns 2021 will be worse than 2020

By Edith M. Lederer Nov. 14, 2020 03:34 PM EST

FILE - In this Friday, Sept. 26, 2014 file photo, Norwegian Minister of Health Bent Hoeie is seen during the Global Health Security Agenda Summit, on the White House complex in Washington. The Norwegian government has granted an exemption from its two-week quarantine requirement for arriving visitors so representatives from the winner of the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize - the World Food Program - can attend the Dec. 10 award ceremony in Oslo. “The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize is an important event of great national and international interest,” Norwegian Health Minister Bent Hoeie said Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020. “We want to make it easy for the prize winner to be physically present this year as well.” (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, file)
Norway gives quarantine exemption to 2020 Nobel winners

Nov. 10, 2020 12:19 PM EST

FILE - In this Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020, file photo, Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, center, arrives for the opening session of the 33rd African Union (AU) Summit at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ethiopia's prime minister on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020 ordered the military to confront the Tigray regional government after he said it attacked a military base overnight, citing months of "provocation and incitement" and declaring that "the last red line has been crossed." (AP Photo, File)
Timeline: Ethiopia's Nobel Peace Prize to brink of civil war

By Rodney Muhumuza Nov. 10, 2020 09:18 AM EST

Voters wearing protective face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus line up to cast their ballots at a polling station near Shwedagon pagoda Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020, in Yangon, Myanmar. Voting was underway in Myanmar's elections on Sunday, with the party of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi heavily favored to retain power it had wrestled from the powerful military five years ago. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)
Suu Kyi party set to win Myanmar vote with weak opposition

By Aung Naing Soe And Pyae Sone Win Nov. 07, 2020 07:00 PM EST

Nobel winner urges billionaires to save millions from famine

By Edith M. Lederer Oct. 16, 2020 05:18 PM EDT
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the World Food Program, this year’s winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, again urged billionaires to donate just a few billion to...

Winners of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2020 at a press conference in Stockholm, Monday Oct. 12, 2020. Americans Paul R. Milgrom, left, and Robert B. Wilson have won the Nobel Prize in economics for "improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats." (Anders Wiklund/TT via AP)
2 Stanford economists win Nobel prize for improving auctions

By David Keyton, Frank Jordans And Paul Wiseman Oct. 12, 2020 05:51 AM EDT