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This year's Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded.
The chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Jurgen Vatnis Friednis, announced the news.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 to Maria Corina Machado.
She is receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.
Machado is a 58-year-old industrial engineer.
She is living and hiding in Venezuela.
She was blocked last year by Venezuelan courts from running for president against current leaders Nicolás Maduro.
Maduro claimed a landslide victory last year in his re-election campaign.
That was a vote that election observers rejected as neither free nor fair.
Today is supposed to mark the start of the first phase of a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas.
It is based on a plan proposed by President Trump.
It calls for Hamas to release all hostages living and dead,
and for Israel to free hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and detainees.
Israel is also supposed to pull troops back from zones in Gaza.