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EU chief von der Leyen faces no confidence vote
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen gives a speech during a plenary session at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. (AFP)
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EU chief von der Leyen faces no confidence vote
A major complaint is that von der Leyenâs center-right camp has increasingly teamed up with the far-right to further its agenda, most notably to roll back environmental rules
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STRATSBOURG: EU chief Ursula von der Leyen faces a confidence vote Thursday that has little chance of succeeding but has exposed frictions between her backers and complaints about her leadership style.
European lawmakers will vote on the rare challenge pushed by a far-right faction against the European Commission president at around midday (1000 GMT) in Strasbourg.
Addressing parliament this week, von der Leyen dismissed the no-confidence motion as a conspiracy theory-laden attempt to divide Europe, dismissing its supporters as âanti-vaxxersâ and Russian President Vladimir âPutin apologists.â
She urged lawmakers to renew confidence in her commission arguing it was critical for Europe to show unity in the face of an array of challenges, from US trade talks to Russiaâs war in Ukraine.
The no-confidence motion was initiated by Romanian far-right lawmaker Gheorghe Piperea.
He accuses von der Leyen of a lack of transparency over text messages she sent to the head of the Pfizer pharmaceutical giant when negotiating Covid vaccines.
The commissionâs failure to release the messages â the focus of multiple court cases â has given weight to critics who accuse its boss of centralized and opaque decision-making.
That is also a growing refrain from the commission chiefâs traditional allies on the left and center, who have used the vote to air their grievances.
A major complaint is that von der Leyenâs center-right camp has increasingly teamed up with the far-right to further its agenda â most notably to roll back environmental rules.
Centrist leader Valerie Hayer told parliament this week that von der Leyenâs commission was âtoo centralized and scleroticâ before warning that ânothing can be taken for granted.â
âPfizergateâ aside, Romaniaâs Piperea accuses the commission of interfering in his countryâs recent presidential election, in which pro-European Nicusor Dan narrowly beat EU critic and nationalist George Simion.
That vote came after Romaniaâs constitutional court scrapped an initial ballot over allegations of Russian interference and massive social media promotion of the far-right frontrunner, who was barred from standing again.
Pipereaâs challenge is unlikely to succeed.
It has support from some groups on the left and part of the far right â including the party of Hungaryâs nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
âTime to go,â Orban tweeted on Wednesday alongside a photo of von der Leyen.
But Pipereaâs own group, the ECR, is split. Its largest faction, the party of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, said it would back the EU chief.
The two largest groups in parliament, the center-right EPP and the center-left Socialists and Democrats, have also flatly rejected the challenge, which needs two-thirds of votes cast, representing a majority of all lawmakers to pass.
UK, France to enable âco-ordinatedâ nuclear deterrent
Western Europe's two nuclear powers agree to ârefreshâ their defense ties
Vow to jointly respond to any âextreme threat to Europeâ
Updated 10 July 2025
AFP
LONDON: The UK and France will declare that the two nationsâ nuclear deterrents, while independent, can be co-ordinated and that they will jointly respond to any âextreme threat to Europe,â both countries said Wednesday.
The declaration, to be signed Thursday, will state that the respective deterrents of both countries remain under national control âbut can be co-ordinated, and that there is no extreme threat to Europe that would not prompt a response by both nations,â the UKâs Ministry of Defense (MoD) and the French presidency said in an overnight statement.
French President Emmanuel Macron will sign the agreement Thursday as he wraps up his three-day state visit to the UK with a bilateral summit, where the allies will ârebootâ defense ties with a focus on joint missile development and nuclear co-operation.
Franceâs leader and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer will co-host the London summit, with the two sides also expected to discuss maintaining support for Ukraine and curbing undocumented cross-Channel immigration.
Ahead of the gathering, which follows two days of varied events spanning pomp and politics, trade and culture, France and Britain announced their âdefense relationshipâ will be ârefreshed.â
It will see London and Paris order more Storm Shadow cruise missiles â long-range, air-launched weapons jointly developed by the two countries and called SCALP by the French â while stepping up work on a replacement system.
The missiles have been shipped to Ukraine in significant numbers in recent years to help Kyiv in its war with Russia.
The new partnerships herald a new âEntente Industrielleâ making âdefense an engine for growth,â said the MoD.
âAs close partners and NATO allies, the UK and France have a deep history of defense collaboration and todayâs agreements take our partnership to the next level,â Starmer said in the statement.
Starmer and Macron will also on Thursday dial into a meeting of the so-called âcoalition of the willingâ on Ukraine, a group of countries backing the embattled nation.
AI giant Nvidia becomes first company to reach $4 tn in value
Nvidia now has a market value greater than the GDP of France, Britain or India
The California chip companyâs latest surge is helping drive a recovery in the broader stock market
Updated 10 July 2025
AFP
NEW YORK: Nvidia became the first company to touch $4 trillion in market value on Wednesday, a new milestone in Wall Streetâs bet that artificial intelligence will transform the economy.
Shortly after the stock market opened, Nvidia vaulted as high as $164.42, giving it a valuation above $4 trillion. The stock subsequently edged lower, ending just under the record threshold.
âThe market has an incredible certainty that AI is the future,â said Steve Sosnick of Interactive Brokers. âNvidia is certainly the company most positioned to benefit from that gold rush.â
Nvidia, led by electrical engineer Jensen Huang, now has a market value greater than the GDP of France, Britain or India, a testament to investor confidence that AI will spur a new era of robotics and automation.
The California chip companyâs latest surge is helping drive a recovery in the broader stock market, as Nvidia itself outperforms major indices.
Part of this is due to relief that President Donald Trump has walked back his most draconian tariffs, which pummeled global markets in early April.
Even as Trump announced new tariff actions in recent days, US stocks have stayed at lofty levels, with the tech-centered Nasdaq ending at a fresh record on Wednesday.
âYouâve seen the markets walk us back from a worst-case scenario in terms of tariffs,â said Angelo Zino, technology analyst at CFRA Research.
While Nvidia still faces US export controls to China as well as broader tariff uncertainty, the companyâs deal to build AI infrastructure in şÚÁĎÉçÇř during a Trump state visit in May showed a potential upside in the US presidentâs trade policy.
âWeâve seen the administration using Nvidia chips as a bargaining chip,â Zino said.
Challenged by DeepSeek
Nvidiaâs surge to $4 trillion marks a new benchmark in a fairly consistent rise over the last two years as AI enthusiasm has built.
In 2025 so far, the companyâs shares have risen more than 21 percent, whereas the Nasdaq has gained 6.7 percent.
Taiwan-born Huang has wowed investors with a series of advances, including its core product: graphics processing units (GPUs), key to many of the generative AI programs behind autonomous driving, robotics and other cutting-edge domains.
The company has also unveiled its Blackwell next-generation technology allowing more super processing capacity. One of its advances is âreal-time digital twins,â significantly speeding production development time in manufacturing, aerospace and myriad other sectors.
However, Nvidiaâs winning streak was challenged early in 2025 when China-based DeepSeek shook up the world of generative AI with a low-cost, high-performance model that challenged the hegemony of OpenAI and other big-spending behemoths.
Nvidiaâs lost some $600 billion in market valuation in a single session during this period.
Huang has welcomed DeepSeekâs presence, while arguing against US export constraints.
At the forefront of âAI agentsâ
In the most recent quarter, Nvidia reported earnings of nearly $19 billion despite a $4.5 billion hit from US export controls limiting sales of cutting-edge technology to China.
The first-quarter earnings period also revealed that momentum for AI remained strong. Many of the biggest tech companies â Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta â are jostling to come out on top in the multi-billion-dollar AI race.
A recent UBS survey of technology executives showed Nvidia widening its lead over rivals.
Zino said Nvidiaâs latest surge reflected a fuller understanding of DeepSeek, which has ultimately stimulated investment in complex reasoning models but not threatened Nvidiaâs business.
Nvidia is at the forefront of âAI agents,â the current focus in generative AI in which machines are able to reason and infer more than in the past, he said.
âOverall the demand landscape has improved for 2026 for these more complex reasoning models,â Zino said.
But the speedy growth of AI will also be a source of disruption.
Executives at Ford, JPMorgan Chase and Amazon are among those who have begun to say the âquiet part out loud,â according to a Wall Street Journal report recounting recent public acknowledgment of white-collar job loss due to AI.
Shares of Nvidia closed the day at $162.88, up 1.8 percent, finishing at just under $4 trillion in market value.
Trump promises West African leaders a pivot to trade as the region reels from sweeping aid cuts
Trump described the nations represented at the meeting as âall very vibrant places with very valuable land, great minerals, and great oil deposits, and wonderful peopleâ
West African countries are among the hardest hit by the dissolution of USAID
Updated 10 July 2025
AP
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump promised West African leaders a pivot from aid to trade during a White House meeting Wednesday as the region reels from the impact of sweeping US aid cuts.
Trump said he sees âgreat economic potential in Africaâ as the leaders of Liberia, Senegal, Gabon, Mauritania and Guinea-Bissau boasted of their countriesâ natural resources and heaped praise on the US president, including their thanks for his help in settling a long-running conflict between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Trump described the nations represented at the meeting as âall very vibrant places with very valuable land, great minerals, and great oil deposits, and wonderful peopleâ â a definite shift from his first term, when he used a vulgar term to describe African nations.
The meeting comes amid a shift in US global and domestic priorities under Trumpâs leadership. Earlier this month, US authorities dissolved theUS Agency for International Development and said it was no longer following what they called âa charity-based foreign aid modelâ and instead would focus on partnerships with nations that show âboth the ability and willingness to help themselves.â
The five nations whose leaders were meeting Trump represent a small fraction of US-Africa trade, but they possess untapped natural resources. Senegal and Mauritania are important transit and origin countries when it comes to migration and along with Guinea-Bissau are struggling to contain drug trafficking, both issues of concern for the Trump administration.
In their speeches, each African leader adopted a flattering tone to commend Trump for what they described as his peace efforts across the world and tried to outshine one another by listing the untapped natural resources their nations possess.
âWe have a great deal of resources,â said Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, president of Mauritania, listing rare earths, as well as manganese, uranium and possibly lithium. âWe have a lot of opportunities to offer in terms of investment.â
Last month, the US administration facilitated a peace deal between Rwanda and Congo to help end the decadeslong deadly fighting in eastern Congo, while enabling the US to gain access to critical minerals in the region. But analysts said it wonât end the fighting because the most prominent armed group said it does not apply to it.
During the meeting, Trump described trade as a diplomatic tool. Trade âseems to be a foundationâ for him to settle disputes between countries, he said.
âYou guys are going to fight, weâre not going to trade,â Trump said. âAnd we seem to be quite successful in doing that.â
He added, addressing the African leaders: âThere is a lot of anger on your continent.â
As he spoke, the US administration continued sending out notifications to developing countries about higher tariff rates effective from August 1. The five Western African nations were not among them.
The portion of the lunch meeting that was open to the press didnât touch much on the loss of aid, which critics say will result in millions of deaths.
âWe have closed the USAID group to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse,â Trump said Wednesday. âAnd weâre working tirelessly to forge new economic opportunities involving both the United States and many African nations.â
West African countries are among the hardest hit by the dissolution of USAID. The US support in Liberia amounted to 2.6 percent of the countryâs gross national income, the highest percentage anywhere in the world, according to the Center for Global Development.
Liberian President Joseph Nyuma Boakai in a statement âexpressed optimism about the outcomes of the summit, reaffirming Liberiaâs commitment to regional stability, democratic governance and inclusive economic growth.â
During the meeting, Trump reacted with visible surprise to Boakaiâs English-speaking skills, which he praised. English is the official language of Liberia, which was established in the early 1800s with the aim of relocating freed African slaves and free-born Black citizens from the United States.
Gabon, Liberia, Mauritania and Senegal are among 36 countries that might be included in the possible expansion of Trumpâs travel ban.
Experts said that the meeting highlighted the new transactional nature of the relationship between the US and Africa.
âWe are likely to see a trend where African countries will seek to leverage resources such as critical minerals, or infrastructure such as ports, to attract US commercial entities in order to maintain favorable relations with the current US administration,â aid Beverly Ochieng, an analyst at Control Risks, a security consulting firm. âEach of the African leaders sought to leverage natural resources in exchange for US financial and security investments, and appeared to view the US intervention in the Democratic Republic of Congo as a model to further cooperation.â
US resumes sending some weapons to Ukraine after Pentagon pause
Weapons now moving into Ukraine include 155 mm munitions and precision-guided rockets known as GMLRS
Trump has become increasingly frustrated with Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying he wasnât happy with him
Updated 10 July 2025
AP
WASHINGTON: The Trump administration has resumed sending some weapons to Ukraine, a week after the Pentagon had directed that some deliveries be paused, US officials said Wednesday.
The weapons heading into Ukraine include 155 mm munitions and precision-guided rockets known as GMLRS, two officials told The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity to provide details that had not been announced publicly. Itâs unclear exactly when the weapons started moving.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed the pause on some shipments last week to allow the Pentagon to assess its weapons stockpiles, in a move that caught the White House by surprise.
Affected was Patriot missiles, the precision-guided GMLRS, Hellfire missiles, Howitzer rounds and more, taking not only Ukrainian officials and other allies by surprise but also US lawmakers and other parts of the Trump administration, including the State Department.
It was not clear if a pause on Patriot missiles would hold. The $4 million munition is in high demand and was key to defending a major US air base in Qatar last month as Iran launched a ballistic missile attack in response to the US targeting its nuclear facilities.
President Donald Trump announced Monday that the US would continue to deliver defensive weapons to Ukraine. He has sidestepped questions about who ordered the pause in exchanges with reporters this week.
âI would know if a decision is made. I will know,â Trump said Wednesday. âI will be the first to know. In fact, most likely Iâd give the order, but I havenât done that yet.â
Asked a day earlier who ordered the pause, he said, âI donât know. Why donât you tell me?â
Trump has privately expressed frustration with Pentagon officials for announcing the pause â a move that he felt wasnât properly coordinated with the White House, according to three people familiar with the matter.
The Pentagon has denied that Hegseth acted without consulting the president, saying, âSecretary Hegseth provided a framework for the President to evaluate military aid shipments and assess existing stockpiles. This effort was coordinated across government.â
It comes as Russia has fired escalating air attacks on Ukraine, with a barrage that the largest number of drones fired in a single night in the three-year-old war, Ukrainian officials said Wednesday.
Trump has become increasingly frustrated with Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying he wasnât happy with him.
âPutin is not, heâs not treating human beings right,â Trump said during a Cabinet meeting Tuesday, explaining the pauseâs reversal. âItâs killing too many people. So weâre sending some defensive weapons to Ukraine, and Iâve approved that.â
The 155 mm artillery rounds have become some of the most used munitions of the war. Each round is about 2 feet (60 centimeters) long, weighs about 100 pounds (45 kilograms) and is 155 mm, or 6.1 inches, in diameter. They are used in Howitzer systems, which are towed large guns identified by the range of the angle of fire that their barrels can be set to.
Howitzer fires can strike targets up to 15 to 20 miles (24 to 32 kilometers) away, depending on what type of round and firing system is used, which makes them highly valued by ground forces to take out enemy targets from a protected distance.
The US has provided more than 3 million 155 mm rounds to Ukraine since Russia invaded its neighbor in February 2022. It has sent more than $67 billion in overall weapons and military assistance to Ukraine in that period.
Nobel: The prize for peace that leaders go to war for
Israeli PMâs nomination of Trump has reopened debate over the Nobel Peace Prizeâs meaning and credibility
As Gaza burns and indictments loom, a wartime leader endorsing a recipient raises questions, says analyst
Updated 10 July 2025
Caspar Webb
LONDON: In what supporters have called a symbol of solidarity and detractors a humiliating act of fealty, Israelâs Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week revealed he had nominated Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize â an award long sought by the US president.
The decision by Netanyahu appears designed to help bolster ties between the two long-term allies and ease reported tensions over Israelâs 21-month-long war in Gaza and its bruising 12-day conflict with Iran last month.
Netanyahu presented the nomination letter to Trump at the White House on Monday, and was met with a look of surprise from the US president.
âItâs nominating you for the Peace Prize, which is well deserved, and you should get it,â Netanyahu said.
âWow, coming from you, in particular, this is very meaningful. Thank you very much, Bibi,â Trump responded.
FASTFACTS:
⢠The Nobel Peace Prize was founded by Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite.
⢠Regret over his invention partly drove Nobel to create the prize to promote peace.
⢠Carl von Ossietzky, Aung San Suu Kyi, and Liu Xiaobo, were imprisoned when awarded.
⢠The youngest Nobel Peace laureate is Malala Yousafzai, who received it in 2014 at age 17.
For Dania Koleilat Khatib, a specialist in US-Arab relations, Netanyahuâs decision to nominate the president rests on his desire to âdo anything to court Trump.â
She told Arab News that Netanyahu arrived in Washington with a set of demands covering almost every regional file of interest to Israel: Syria, Turkiye, Gaza, the West Bank and Iran.
Netanyahu is also seeking US guarantees relating to arms supplies, especially after Iranâs ballistic missile barrages last month placed substantial pressure on Israeli air defense systems, Khatib said.
âHe wants to show Trump that he is the best ally he can have; he also knows that Trump is really looking after getting the Nobel Peace Prize,â she added.
President Donald Trump looks at a document during a meeting with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on July 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP)
Trump has made no secret of his yearning for the prestigious prize, yet the nomination itself is only the first part of an extensive, secret process that winds up in the stately committee room of Osloâs Nobel Institute.
The distinction and tradition of the Nobel name, however, is arguably a far cry from the reputation of Trumpâs nominator.
Netanyahu, alongside former defense minister Yoav Gallant, is the subject of an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court over allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity relating to the conduct of Israelâs military in Gaza.
Protesters demonstrate on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC., during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to the United States on July 24, 2024, amid Israel's war bombardment of civilian homes in Gaza on July 24, 2024. (AFP/File)
That fact would no doubt weigh on the minds of the five Norwegian Nobel Committee members who deliberate over the prize.
For Khatib, the ICC arrest warrant alone means that Netanyahuâs gesture is âworthless.â
She told Arab News: âI am not sure whether the nomination will be discarded but it is ironic that someone wanted by the ICC for alleged war crimes and potentially genocide nominates someone for the Nobel Peace Prize.â
GUIDELINES ON NOBEL NOMINATIONS
⢠Only nominees put forward by qualified nominators are considered.
⢠Self-nominations are not accepted.
⢠The prize may be awarded to individuals or organizations.
Upholding the reputation of the prize is a tall order, in part due to the strictness of its rules. The committeeâs choice for the annual award effectively ties the Nobel name to the future reputation of any recipient. The Nobel Foundationâs Statutes also forbid the revocation of any award.
Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese icon of democracy, fell from grace over her treatment of the Rohingya Muslim minority in the decades since she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991.
Former US President Barack Obama was controversially awarded the prize just nine months into his first term, to the dismay of figures including Trump, who called on the institution to retract the award.
The decision to award Obama for âextraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoplesâ soon appeared foolish after it emerged the president had told aides, referring to his use of drone strikes: âTurns out Iâm really good at killing people.â
US President Barack Obama delivers a speech after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize at the Oslo City Hall in Oslo, Norway, on December 10, 2009. (AFP)
The Nobel Committeeâs then secretary, Geir Lundestad, later expressed regret over the decision. âEven many of Obamaâs supporters believed that the prize was a mistake,â he said. âIn that sense the committee didnât achieve what it had hoped for.â
Khatib told Arab News that the most basic requirement of the prize is that the recipient contributes to peace.
âI personally donât know why Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize,â she told Arab News. âWhat was the achievement for which he was awarded the prize?â
The Obama controversy may well have sparked Trumpâs desire to win the prize. He has referred to the 2009 award numerous times since, and has regularly expressed frustration over an accomplishment that he feels has eluded him.
This photo taken on December 10, 2009, shows protesters from the group The World Can't Wait during a 'coffin march' against US President Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize after his announcement of a troop surge in Afghanistan. (Getty Images via AFP)
Netanyahuâs nomination of Trump, however, is only the most recent that the US leader has received. He was nominated separately by a group of House Republicans in the US and two Norwegian lawmakers for his work to defuse nuclear tensions with North Korea in 2018.
In 2021, Trump was also nominated by one of the two Norwegian lawmakers and a Swedish official for his peace efforts in the Middle East, including the Abraham Accords, which established formal relations between Israel and several Arab states.
Shinzo Abe, the late former prime minister of Japan, also nominated Trump in 2019.
Earlier this year, Pakistan said that it had nominated Trump for the prize in recognition of his work to end the countryâs brief conflict with India. New Delhi later denied that Washington played a role in mediation.
WHO CAN NOMINATE
⢠Members of national assemblies and governments.
⢠Members of international courts.
⢠University rectors, professors, and directors of peace research or foreign policy institutes.
⢠Past laureates and board members of laureate organizations.
* Current and former Norwegian Nobel Committee members and former advisers.
Trump is also working toward a diplomatic solution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, which has so far defied his negotiators.
A day after Mondayâs White House meeting, Netanyahuâs office released a copy of the nomination letter â dated July 1 â seen by Trump.
âPresident Trump has demonstrated steadfast and exceptional dedication to promoting peace, security and stability around the world,â it said.
âIn the Middle East, his efforts have brought about dramatic change and created new opportunities to expand the circle of peace and normalization.â
President Donald Trump was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize when Bahrain and the UAE signed the so-called Abraham Accords with Israel at the White House in Washington, DC, on September 15, 2020. (AFP/file)
The prime ministerâs letter singled out the Abraham Accords as Trumpâs âforemost achievementâ in the region.
âThese breakthroughs reshaped the Middle East and marked a historic advance toward peace, security and regional stability,â it said.
The description of the region as having experienced a historic advance toward peace will raise eyebrows in many parts of the Middle East.
IN NUMBERS:
⢠142 Individuals and organizations have received the prize since 1901.
⢠19 Women have been awarded.
⢠28 Organizations received the award.
⢠19 Years the prize was not awarded.
(Source: NobelPrize.org)
Yet the strange circumstances of an alleged war criminal acting as a peace prize nominator has parallels with the Nobel nameâs own peculiar past.
The prizes were established through the will of Alfred Nobel, a Swedish chemist, inventor and industrialist who amassed a fortune after inventing and patenting dynamite. The explosive was rapidly adopted for industrial use but was also soon prized for its utility as a tool of warfare.
The first awards bearing the Nobel name were handed out just after the turn of the century in 1901, five years after the Swedish visionary had died.
Alfred Nobel built an explosives empire and left much of his fortune to fund the Nobel Prizes. (Getty Images)
They cover medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and peace. An economics prize was later established by the Swedish Central Bank in 1968, but it is not considered a Nobel prize in the same manner.
Nobelâs wishes were for the peace prize to go to âthe person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.â
The strict codification of Nobelâs will resulted in the Nobel Statutes, a set of rules followed by the Nobel Foundation, which oversees the secretive process behind the five prizes. Judges are forbidden from discussing their deliberations for half a century after they take place.
The peace committee is the sole Nobel prize body in Norway, and its five members are appointed by the countryâs parliament.
Nominations for the revered prize can only be submitted by specific people and organizations, including heads of state, national politicians, academic professors and company directors, among others. It is forbidden for people to nominate themselves.
Prominent Arab politicians have been awarded the peace prize.
Yasser Arafat was given the award in 1994 for his efforts toward reaching a peaceful settlement to the Israel-Palestine conflict. In 1978, Egyptâs Anwar Sadat was recognized for signing the Camp David Accords, which were witnessed by Jimmy Carter, the US president at the time, who was later awarded the prize in 2002 for his work to promote human rights after leaving office.
For Trump, however, hopes for his long-desired prize will have to wait until next year; nominations must be submitted before February for the prize to be awarded in the same year.
At the time of publishing, the Nobel Committee had not commented on Netanyahuâs nomination, whether they had any reservations, or whether they would accept it.