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Colombian President Santos Wins Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel peace prize will be presented to Santos in Oslo on 10 December.
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  • Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a surprise after Colombians voted "No" to an agreement he signed with Marxist rebels to end 52 years of war.
  • Santos has promised to revive a peace plan even though Colombians, in a referendum on Sunday, narrowly rejected the accord. Many voters reckoned it was too lenient on the FARC guerrillas.
  • The Nobel Peace Prize, worth 8 million Swedish crowns ($9,30,000), will be presented to Santos in Oslo on 10 December.

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