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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado had called him to say she was accepting the award in his honour, following earlier remarks from the White House accusing the Nobel Committee of choosing “politics over peace.”
The White House had criticised the committee’s decision to award the prize to the Venezuelan opposition leader rather than to Trump, who had campaigned strongly for the accolade and frequently highlighted his role in brokering international ceasefire agreements.
“President Trump will continue to make peace deals, end conflicts, and save lives. He has the heart of a humanitarian, and there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains through sheer willpower,” White House spokesman Steven Cheung wrote on X.
“The Nobel Committee has shown once again that it values politics over peace,” he added.
Speaking later on Friday, Trump refrained from directly criticising the decision but claimed credit for resolving several conflicts, suggesting Machado might have handed him the award if he had asked.
“The person who actually received the Nobel Prize called me today and said, ‘I’m accepting this in your honour because you truly deserved it,’” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “It was a lovely gesture. I didn’t say, ‘Then give it to me,’ although I think she might have done so. She was very kind.”
The Norwegian Nobel Committee said the prize was awarded to Machado as one of the “courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist” authoritarian rule.
Trump had publicly sought the prize and, earlier this week, announced a ceasefire and hostage agreement aimed at ending the conflict in Gaza.
He has claimed credit for ending eight wars since taking office and insists he merits the peace prize, though he had recently acknowledged that he was unlikely to receive it.
“Will I get the Nobel Prize? Absolutely not. They’ll give it to someone who’s done nothing at all,” Trump reportedly told senior U.S. military officials last month, adding that it would be a “major insult” to the United States if he were overlooked.
Nominations for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize closed on 31 January. Trump returned to the White House for his second term on 20 January.
On Friday, he conceded that the committee’s decision effectively recognised achievements from 2024, when he was campaigning for re-election, but argued that his record on peace should have earned him the prize regardless.
“I was running for office in ’24,” he said. “But many people say we did so much that they should have given it to us anyway.”
Reliable sources have confirmed to AnewZ that the United States has asked Azerbaijan to join a Stabilisation Force in Gaza, as part of a proposed international mission to secure the territory.
Tanzanian police fired tear gas and live rounds on Thursday to disperse protesters in Dar es Salaam and other cities, a day after a disputed election marked by violence and claims of political repression, witnesses said.
Centrist liberal party D66, led by 38-year-old Rob Jetten, has made sweeping gains in the Dutch election, emerging neck and neck with Geert Wilders’ far-right Freedom Party (PVV) in early results — a stunning reversal just two years after D66 ranked sixth.
U.S. President Donald Trump agreed with President Xi Jinping to trim tariffs on China in exchange for Beijing cracking down on the illicit fentanyl trade, Trump said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Wednesday that the most difficult situation on the front line remains the eastern city of Pokrovsk, where fighting continues to be most intense due to a strong concentration of Russian forces.
The United States will not send senior officials to the COP30 climate summit in Brazil, according to a White House statement to Reuters, easing fears that Washington might try to derail the talks.
Moldova's parliament voted on Friday to appoint pro-EU economist Alexandru Munteanu as the country's new prime minister.
Afghanistan and Pakistan have extended their ceasefire, following several days of negotiations in Istanbul from October 25 to 30, 2025, mediated by Türkiye and Qatar.
Turkish court sentenced 11 people to life in prison on Friday over a fire that killed 78 people at a ski resort in northwest Türkiye's Bolu mountains in January, state media reported.
Dutch centrist party D66 won the most votes in Wednesday's general election, news agency ANP said on Friday, putting its 38-year-old leader Rob Jetten on course to become the youngest-ever prime minister in the Netherlands.
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