New York: US President Donald Trump may not have received the Nobel Peace Prize this year, but the winner, an ally from Venezuela, dedicated the award to him on Friday.

Maria Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader, said on X, “I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause”!

Trump campaigned for the Nobel Peace Prize with claims of ending conflicts around the world, even a contested one about the India-Pakistan conflict, and received nominations from several countries.

But the factor that worked against him was that the nominations to Norway’s Parliament closed on January 31, long before he waded into diplomacy.

And what is probably his consequential success so far – the initial peace deal on Gaza – cam

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