Venezuela’s opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize.
The announcement comes after US President Donald Trump had campaigned to win the award.
Speaking in New York at the UN General Assembly last month, he said that “everyone says that I should get the Nobel Peace Prize”.
The announcement on Wednesday night that Israel and Hamas had agreed to the first phase of Mr Trump’s 20-point peace plan increased speculation over a potential win for the US president, but Nina Graeger, director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo, told Sky News the development likely came too late for the Nobel Committee to take it into account.
“However, if Donald Trump’s 20-point plan will lead to a lasting and sustainable peace in Gaza, the committee would almost certainly have to take that into serious consideration in next year’s deliberations,” she added.
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