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Has Donald Trump really been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize? Apparently not.
In fact, the Norwegian Nobel Institute – which selects winners for the prestigious award – has filed a police report after they say someone using a stolen identity made a fraudulent nomination for the US president.
“Every year, we get lots of invalid nominations, but these are nominations that are not valid because those who nominate are not qualified to do so,” Nobel committee secretary Olav Njolstad told NTB.
“As far as I know, this is the first example of someone nominating someone by stealing another person’s identity.”
Each year, nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize must be submitted by January 31. Among those entitled to propose names are members of parliament and government, former laureates and some university professors.

While the list of candidates is kept secret for at least 50 years, those who nominate are allowed to disclose their choice.
In January, Henrik Urdal, manager of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (Prio), said that Trump had been nominated for the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize but that the nomination “still lacks a strong academic justification.”
The leader of the independent Norwegian peace institute said it was “an American player with the right to nominate a candidate” who told him the person had tapped Trump. Urdal declined to name the person.
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The Nobel Institute said it had received 329 valid nominations for the 2018 Peace Prize. The five members of the Nobel committee that selects the winner are also allowed to submit names during their first meeting of the year, which was held on Monday.
Congolese surgeon Denis Mukwege and Yazidi activist Nadia Murad, who both campaign against sexual violence, topped Prio’s early shortlist.

“Although their experiences and practices differ greatly, there can be no doubt about the potency of their global advocacy work against sexual violence in conflict,” director Henrik Urdal said on the Prio website.    
Among the nominations made public so far is the so-called Umbrella Movement which called for democratic reform in Hong Kong in 2014, nominated by a bipartisan group of US congressmen.
Peace Prize winners issue warning about North Korea crisis
Others include former French president Jacques Chirac, as well as the UNHCR, Pope Francis, the European Court of Human Rights, former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden and Syria’s “White Helmets” rescue volunteers.
Also on the list are Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, the UN Committee Against Torture, Kurdish peshmerga fighters, and the pro-Palestinian BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) Movement.

Last year’s Peace Prize went to nuclear disarmament group ICAN for its decade-long campaign to rid the world of the atomic bomb. 
It was a key player in the adoption of a historic nuclear weapons ban treaty, signed by 122 countries in July. However, the accord was largely symbolic as none of the nine known world nuclear powers signed up to it.
The name of the 2018 winner will be announced in early October.


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Ignoble behaviour! Donald Trump’s nomination for Nobel Peace Prize was faked by an identity thief

US President Donald Trump (pictured on Thursday) does not, in fact, have a Nobel Peace Prize nomination, despite recent claims. Photo: AP

epa06498561 Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (R) and Executive Director of Georgetown University's Institute for Women, Peace and Security Melanne Verveer (L) present a human rights award to UN Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking, Nadia Murad (C), during a ceremony at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, USA, 05 February 2018. Clinton delivered remarks as part of the annual Hillary Clinton awards ceremony hosted by Georgetown University's Institute for Women, Peace and Security. EPA-EFE/MICHAEL REYNOLDS

epa06569990 Pope Francis during second part of his weekly general audience in St Peter Basilica at the Vatican, 28 February 2018. EPA-EFE/FABIO FRUSTACI

(FILES) In this file photo taken on January 16, 2018 bailed Hong Kong democracy activists Joshua Wong (L), Nathan Law (C) and Alex Chow face the media outside the Court of Final Appeal before their first appeal hearing against jail sentences in Hong Kong. A bipartisan group of US congressmen announced on February 1, 2018 they had nominated Hong Kong pro-democracy activists Joshua Wong, Nathan Law, Alex Chow and the entire Umbrella Movement for the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize. In a letter to the Nobel Committee, the four senators and eight members of the House said the nomination was "in recognition of their peaceful efforts to bring political reform and self-determination to Hong Kong." / AFP PHOTO / Anthony WALLACE

It’s no joke: the North Korean nuclear crisis could get Trump the Nobel Peace Prize 

Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un are known for their mercurial natures – which may help the nuclear crisis. Photo: AFP

FILE - in this Aug. 29, 2017 file photo distributed on Aug. 30, 2017, by the North Korean government shows what was said to be the test launch of a Hwasong-12 intermediate range missile in Pyongyang, North Korea. North and South Korea sat down to talk Tuesday after a year that had seen only mounting tension, as North Korea conducted tests of ever-more capable missiles and its largest nuclear detonation ever, and the U.S. and its allies responded with harsh rhetoric and sanctions. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

FILE - This undated file photo distributed by the North Korean government shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, at an undisclosed location in North Korea. The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, an organization pushing for a global treaty to ban the cataclysmic bombs. The award of the $1.1-million prize The Geneva-based ICAN won the $1.1 million prize comes amid heightened tensions over both North Korea's aggressive development of nuclear weapons and President Donald Trump's persistent criticism of the deal to curb Iran's nuclear program. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

ADDS SOURCE - A South Korean government official checks the direct communications hotline to talk with the North Korean side at the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reopened a key cross-border communication channel with South Korea on Wednesday, another sign easing animosity between the rivals even as Kim traded combative threats of nuclear war with President Donald Trump. (South Korea Unification Ministry/Yonhap via AP)

People watch a TV news program showing the Twitter post of U.S. President Donald Trump while reporting North Korea's nuclear issue, at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018. Trump boasted that he has a bigger and more powerful "nuclear button" than North Korean leader Kim Jong Un does - but the president doesn't actually have a physical button. The letters on the screen read: "More powerful nuclear button." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Trump’s ticket to Nobel glory. Photo: AFP

American Dennis Alan impersonates U.S. President Donald Trump with 'Howard,' an Australian-Chinese man who gave his first name while impersonating North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in South Korea. SCMP Pictures (UNDATED HANDOUT)

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