Nobel Nominations Near Record

Society | February 24, 2006, Friday // 00:00

Rock stars Bono and Bob Geldof are among 191 nominees for this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

That is the second longest list in the history of the Awards. The highest number of nominations, 199, were put up last year.

Unconfirmed reports point former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as some of the other nominees.

The winner of the USD 1.3 million prize is announced each year in mid-October.

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