Nobel Peace Prize 2025: 'I am in shock', says Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado after win

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said that President  Trump deserved the peace prize. 

The White House on Friday criticised the awarding of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. "Once again, the Nobel Committee has proved they place politics over peace," a White House spokesperson said.

'I am in shock', said Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado after the Nobel Peace Prize win.

President Donald Trump was passed over for the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday despite jockeying from his fellow Republicans, various world leaders and — most vocally — himself. Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was awarded the prize.

Machado becomes the 20th woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, of the 112 individuals who have been honored.

Announcing Marina Corina Machado as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 2025, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said the Venezuelan opposition leader was chosen 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.

As the leader of the democracy movement in Venezuela, Maria Corina Machado is one of the most extraordinary examples of civilian courage in Latin America in recent times.

Nobel Peace Prize 2025: Trump misses out, María Corina Machado is the winner.

Hours before 2025 Nobel Prize winner is announced, Donald Trump on Thursday (local time) launched a scathing attack on Barack Obama and said that the former US President received the coveted award despite "doing nothing" for the country. Click here to read more.

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced shortly.

With just a few minuted left for the clock to strike 2.30 pm - when the Nobel Peace Prize 2025 winner will be announced. You can check the live tracker here - https://www.nobelprize.org/

Russia on Friday voiced its support for US President Donald Trump’s nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize, which is scheduled to be announced today by the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov reportedly made the statement just hours before the announcement.

With the official announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize 2025 winner just one hour away, the Nobel Committee has shared an important for those who want to watch it LIVE on social media. Viewers can tune into the Nobel Prize X account's live stream here to know the winner.

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Wangari Maathai was the first female professor in Kenya and the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. She founded the Green Belt Movement, which led to the planting of millions of trees.

The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 will be announced today at around 2.30 pm (IST)

Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, known for his philosophical and darkly humorous novels that often unfold in a single, continuous sentence, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday for his “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”

Several of his works, including his debut novel Satantango and The Melancholy of Resistance, have been adapted into films by Hungarian director Béla Tarr.

Announcing the award, Steve Sem-Sandberg of the Nobel Committee praised Krasznahorkai for his “artistic gaze, entirely free of illusion, that perceives the fragility of the social order while maintaining an unwavering belief in the power of art.”

In a post on X, Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel supported Donald Trump to be given the Nobel Peace Prize 2025. Notably, Trump has been able to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza with the first phase of the truce now being in effect.

Mahatma Gandhi was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1937, 1938, 1939, 1947, and early January 1948 (just before his assassination). However, he was never awarded the prize.

The Nobel Peace Prize is presented annually in Oslo, in the presence of the King of Norway, on 10 December after the announcement on October 10.

With just a few hours left for the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize 2025, the Nobel Prize committee shared an update on X with a post.

"Today we'll be announcing the recipient(s) of this year's Nobel Peace Prize. There's only a few hours to go," it wrote.

The Nobel Committee does not disclose the names of nominees, either to the media or to the candidates themselves. At times, names surface in the media due to speculation or because individuals publicly claim to have nominated certain candidates.

In line with the statutes of the Nobel Foundation, the official list of Nobel Peace Prize nominees is made public 50 years after the award is presented.

Mother Teresa (1979) and Kailash Satyarthi (2014) are the only two recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize from India.

Some of the prominent recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize are Louis Renault (1907), Alfred Fried (1911), Sir Austen Chamberlain (1925), Dag Hammarskjold (1961), Linus Pauling (1962), Martin Luther King Jr (1964), Norman Ernest Borlaug (1970), Willy Brandt (1971), Henry Kissinger (1973), Andrei Sakharov (1975), Anwar Sadat (1978), Menachem Begin (1978), Mother Teresa (1979), Desmond Tutu (1984), Dalai Lama (1989), Mikhail Gorbachev (1990), Aung San Suu Kyi (1991), Nelson Mandela (1993), Yasser Arafat (1994), Yitzhak Rabin (1994), Shimon Peres (1994), Kim Dae-Jung (2000), Kofi Annan (2001), Shirin Ebadi (2003), Wangari Muta Maathai (2004), Mohamed ElBaradei (2005), Muhammad Yunus (2006), Al Gore (2007) and Narges Mohammadi (2023).

Every Nobel Peace Prize laureate is awarded a medal, a diploma, and a cash prize, the amount of which has changed over the years.

As of 2024, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to 111 individuals and 28 organisations. Nineteen women have won the Nobel Peace Prize, more than any other Nobel Prize.

Bertha von Suttner of Austria-Hungary was the first woman to receive a Nobel Peace Prize in 1905 "for her audacity to oppose the horrors of war."

The first recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize was Henry Dunant of Switzerland. He, along with  France's Frederic Passy, received it in 1901. Dunant was awarded "for his humanitarian efforts to help wounded soldiers and create international understanding", while Passy received it "for his lifelong work for international peace conferences, diplomacy and arbitration."

Four former US presidents have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize:

1. Theodore Roosevelt: Awarded in 1906 for mediating the end of the Russo-Japanese War.
2. Woodrow Wilson: Awarded in 1919 for his efforts in founding the League of Nations after World War I.
3. Jimmy Carter: Given in 2002 for his decades-long work in diplomacy, conflict resolution, and human rights through the Carter Center.
4. Barack Obama: Awarded in 2009 for his efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.

The members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee for 2025 are:

• Jorgen Watne Frydnes: Chair of the committee since 2021. He is a human rights advocate and has worked with organizations such as Doctors Without Borders and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee.
• Asle Toje: Vice Chair since 2024. He is a conservative political scientist and former research director at the Norwegian Nobel Institute.
• Anne Enger: Member since 2018. She is a former politician and former leader of the Centre Party.
• Kristin Clemet: Member since 2021. She is a former Minister for Education and Research in Norway.
• Gry Larsen: Member since 2024. She is a former politician and former State Secretary in the Ministry of Climate and Environment.

The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday in Oslo, Norway, shortly after the start of Nobel Week. The award is presented by the Norwegian Nobel Committee. This year, the committee received a total of 338 nominations, including 244 individuals and 94 organizations.

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday, October 10, at 11:00 am CEST (2:30 pm IST). Read more

The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, for its enduring efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons.

The organisation has been instrumental in advocating for nuclear disarmament, drawing from the firsthand accounts of Hibakusha, the survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Their testimony has played a pivotal role in establishing a global taboo against the use of nuclear weapons

Hours before the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner was announced, Donald Trump launched a sharp attack on former President Barack Obama, claiming that Obama received the prestigious award despite “doing nothing” for the country. Trump made the remarks while speaking to reporters at the White House in Washington.

Obama, who served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2008, just months after taking office, in recognition of “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”

After months of campaigning for himself to get the Nobel Peace Prize 2025 for "ending wars", US President has now shied away from speaking about the prospects about winning the prize, just hours before the official announcement on Friday. Although, he again claimed to have brokered the ceasefire between India and Pakistan in May this year.

Speaking to reporters at the White House Finland’s President Alexander Stubb, Trump dismissed expectations about his chances of winning the Nobel Peace Prize but emphasised his record of peace agreements. He said he has "solved" seven wars so far and that the ceasefire in Gaza would make it eight. Read more

There are 338 candidates nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025, of which 244 are individuals and 94 are organisations. This is a significant increase from last year.

In 2024, there were 286 nominees. The highest number of nominees was in 2016, with 376 candidates. The nomination deadline for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 was on 31 January. Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee may add further names to the list during their first meeting, which this year was held on 28 February.