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#CNN #News When Nobel Peace Prize recipient Nadia Murad shared her horrific story of torture and rape while in ISIS captivity, President Donald Trump appeared to be unfamiliar with her story. CNN's Brianna Keilar reports.

I’d like to talk about heroes – and mine are people who defend human rights. Human rights are individual rights; they are not the rights of a group. This sounds obvious, yet it seems to get increasingly drowned out in the way we react to crises or events, and not least in the way politics is framed. Grossman’s Life and Fate took me three weeks to read – and three to recover | Linda Grant Read more But what also feels worryingly distant is the very notion that human rights hinge first and foremost on the protection of the individual, not of the group. But this is where a terrible, fateful error is born: the belief that these groupings in the name of a race, a God, a party or a state are the very purpose of life and not simply a means to an end. What tends to get lost in all of this is the sacredness of the individual as opposed to the community or group they belong to – or are ascribed to. “In my experience,” he recently said, “the victims of human rights violations know full well that human rights are universal. Only those who violate human rights look for excuses in traditions, cultures, circumstances.” And he added: “human rights defenders defend the rights of each individual. Others defend the rights of a specific community. After all, that’s what the opening articles of the 1948 universal declaration keep telling us.

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Donald J. Trump has ordered a replica of the Nobel Peace Prize and is displaying it prominently on his desk in the Oval Office, the White House confirmed on Wednesday. The replica of the Nobel medallion is mounted on what the White House described as a “tasteful black-velvet background” with an engraved plaque reading, “Donald J. Trump, 2018 Winner.” At the daily White House briefing, the press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said that Trump “took the initiative” to award himself the Peace Prize rather than “waiting around” for the Nobel committee, in Oslo, to bestow it on him. “What with his successes in Syria, Iran, North Korea, and whatnot, the President already knows he’s a lock for the Nobel,” she said. “It’s just a formality at this point." The fake Nobel was first spotted by Henry Klugian, a student who was on a White House tour with his seventh-grade class from Bethesda, Maryland. “I thought it was kind of weird that he’d have something like that made up for himself, but whatever,” he said.

It has been a big week for Donald Trump who went to Andrews Air Force Base this morning to greet three American Detainees who were being held by Kim Jong Un. There has been a lot of talk about Donald…

South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Monday that President Trump deserves to win a Nobel Peace Prize for his role in talks to denuclearize the Korean peninsula and end the decades-long war between the North and South. FOX News Channel…

The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which selects winners of the peace prize, has said that someone using a stolen identity has nominated Donald Trump for the award. The Norwegian news agency NTB quoted committee secretary Olav Njolstad as saying it appears the same person was responsible for forging nominations in 2017, as well. Njolstad who could not immediately be reached for comment, declined to identify the person, adding that Norwegian police have been informed. “Every year, we get lots of invalid nominations, but these are nominations that are not valid because those who nominate are not qualified to do so,” Njolstad told NTB. “As far as I know, this is the first example of someone nominating someone by stealing another person’s identity.” Nobel peace prize: US lawmakers nominate Hong Kong protesters Read more Norway’s Nobel Committee keeps candidate names secret for 50 years. However, those who can nominate candidates – parliament members, university professors, directors of peace research and international affairs institutes, and former recipients – can go public with candidate’s names. In January, Henrik Urdal, manager of the Peace Research Institute Oslo, told the Associated Press that Trump had been nominated for the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize but said the nomination “still lacks a strong academic justification”. The leader of the independent Norwegian peace institute said it was “an American player with the right to nominate a candidate” who told him the person had tapped Trump. Urdal declined to name the person.