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Trump Says He Should Have Won ‘8 Nobel Peace Prizes’ After Being Snubbed

The president took to social media on Friday and Saturday to criticize the choice of Navi Pillay and disparage the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

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Navi Pillay, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Forged Her Career Under Apartheid

Navi Pillay, who won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, fought racism in South Africa, shaping her international career as a judge and advocate for justice and human rights.

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Navi Pillay, in Nuremberg, Germany on Friday.
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Navi Pillay, South African Jurist, Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

The choice drew condemnation from Israel over Ms. Pillay’s role leading a U.N. commission that said the country had committed genocide against Palestinians.

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Navi Pillay in Nuremberg, Germany, on Friday.
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Israel Denounces the Decision to Award the Nobel Peace Prize to Navi Pillay

Ms. Pillay, a human rights lawyer, was drawn into the international spotlight last year as chair of a commission that found that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza.

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Palestinians waiting for food distribution in Gaza City last year.
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Navi Pillay is known for her work in conflict zones across the world.

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Navi Pillay received the news that she had been awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday while atttending an annual conference of human rights lawyers and judges in Nuremberg, Germany.
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Nobel Peace Prize Choice Amounts to Implicit Rebuke of Trump

The Trump administration has repeatedly attacked the international legal order and the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where the Peace Prize winner, Navi Pillay, served as a judge.

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The International Criminal Court in The Hague has come under particular attack by the Trump administration.
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In South Africa, Pillay forged a career fighting apartheid.

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Navi Pillay, right, with Edwin Cameron, left, and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, center, in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2013.
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Nobel Prize Winners Don’t Get a Heads-Up

Navi Pillay wasn’t the first Nobel laureate that the prize committees have struggled to reach. Many weren’t even awake when the news broke.

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The winners of the Nobel Prizes remain a secret, even to the winners themselves until shortly before the public announcement.
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How the Epstein Files forced the Nobel Peace Prize to reckon with impartiality.

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Thorbjorn Jagland, former chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, in Oslo in 2013. A tranche of emails released this year revealed ties between him and the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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Navi Pillay, a South African Human Rights Lawyer, Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

A U.N. commission led by Ms. Pillay that investigated the war in Gaza found last year that Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians.

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Navi Pillay was recognized “for her efforts to promote peace and international law,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced on Friday.
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How the Epstein Files Forced the Nobel Peace Prize to Reckon With Impartiality

The five-person committee that hands out the award introduced ethics rules this year after a former member was linked to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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Thorbjorn Jagland, former chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, in Oslo in 2013. A tranche of emails released this year revealed ties between him and the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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A Venezuelan opposition leader won the 2025 prize, setting off an unusual year.

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María Corina Machado, recipient of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, greeted supporters from a hotel balcony in Oslo, Norway, in 2025.
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Moment Karl Deisseroth tells his family he won the Nobel prize in medicine – video

Stanford University has shared a video of Karl Deisseroth telling his two daughters and one of his sons he has won a Nobel prize in medicine.

Deisseroth spent hours fielding congratulatory calls on Monday after learning he had won the prize for helping to open a field of brain science called optogenetics. But it wasn't long before the California scientist asked for a break for a more ordinary task: he needed to make school lunches for his children who were asleep in the family home in Stanford where he had been speaking to journalists and wellwishers in the middle of the night.

Deisseroth, 54, shares the prize with two researchers in Germany for their work in optogenetics, a field that combines light with genes to switch neurons on and off in living brains

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© Photograph: Stanford University via AP

© Photograph: Stanford University via AP

© Photograph: Stanford University via AP

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