Malala, Bill Clinton among Nobel contenders

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This picture taken on December 10, 2010 shows the front of the Nobel medal awarded to the Nobel Peace Prize laureate for 2010, jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiabo. AFP PHOTO / SCANPIX - Berit RoaldA record 259 nominees are in the running for the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize. The list of 209 individuals and 50 organizations is known to include Malala Yousafzai, the shot Pakistani schoolgirl-turned-icon of Taliban resistance, ex-Eastern bloc activists, as well as former US president Bill Clinton, Russian human rights organization Memorial and Myanmar’s reformist President Thein Sein. The 5-member Norwegian Nobel Committee will announce the winner in early October, and the prize will be awarded on December 10, the anniversary of the death in 1896 of the Nobel Prizes’ founder, philanthropist Alfred Nobel.



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