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Albania boycotts Nobel prize awards ceremony as ‘genocide denier’ conferred
TIRANA: Albania will boycott this year’s Nobel prize award ceremony in protest against the literature award being given to author Peter Handke. Handke is a controversial figure as he had dismissed the 1992-1995 Bosnian genocide as ‘fake’ in the past.
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Trio wins economics Nobel for science-based poverty fight
STOCKHOLM: US based economists Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize yesterday for work fighting poverty that has helped millions of children by favouring practical steps over theory. French-American Duflo becomes only the second
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