Nobel Peace Prize to be awarded Friday in Oslo

winner of this year's bel Peace Prize will be anunced Friday at 11 a.m. (0900 GMT) in Oslo, with short of causes or candidates on this year's list.

While rwegian bel Committee maintains absolute secrecy about whom it favors for arguably world’s most prestigious prize, that has never stopped speculation ahe of anuncement.

Guesses — and bets — this year have focused on Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, recovering from a nerve nt attack he blames on Russian President Vlimir Putin, and World Health Organization for its role in dressing coronavirus pandemic.

Even U.S. President Donald Trump seems to believe he deserves prize, though one of few predictions that pundits feel comfortable making is that he’ll be disappointed.

re are 318 candidates — 211 individuals and 107 organizations. minations can be me by a select group, including national lawmakers, hes of state and certain international institutions.

deline for minations was Feb. 1, which means that those on front lines of fighting COVID-19 — which was only declared a pandemic in March — appear unlikely contenders.

Along with ermous prestige, prize comes with a 10-milion krona ($1.1 million) cash award and a gold medal to be handed out at a ceremony in Oslo, rway, on Dec. 10, anniversary of prize founder Alfred bel’s death. This year’s ceremony will be scaled down due to pandemic.

On Monday, bel Committee awarded prize for physiology and medicine for discovering liver-ravaging hepatitis C virus . Tuesday’s prize for physics hored breakthroughs in understanding mysteries of cosmic black holes , and chemistry prize on Wednesday went to scientists behind a powerful gene-editing tool . literature prize was awarded to American poet Louise Glück on Thursday for her “candid and uncompromising” work.

Still to come next week is prize for outstanding work in field of ecomics.

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