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Monday, February 1, 2016

Greek grandmother, fisherman among Nobel Peace nominees

Four months later, she is among three people nominated for the Nobel prize to symbolically represent the "behaviour and attitude of Greece, organisations and volunteers towards the huge refugee crisis". Fisherman Stratis Valiamos, who has rescued scores of refugees from drowning, and Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon, who spent Christmas helping refugees in Greece, were also nominated by Greek academics and the Hellenic Olympic Committee. The Norwegian Nobel Institute does not publish names of nominees, but Nobel watchers have said former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden and peace negotiators in Colombia have also been nominated.


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