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STOCKHOLM (AFP) - The Nobel prize season opens Monday with the announcement of the Medicine Prize and but the field is still wide open for the prestigious Peace Prize. The award committees remain tight-lipped about the nominees ahead of the announcements, and, as usual, speculation has reached fever pitch about possible laureates. The Nobel Peace Prize committee said last week it had still not made its choice among the record 205 candidates this year. The winner is to be revealed in Oslo on October 9. The committee will meet twice before Friday. "There are a lot of good candidates," the influential committee secretary, Geir Lundestad, told AFP. The absence of a clear favourite has made the guessing game more complex than usual, but experts seem to be in agreement that the committee will probably select a "traditional" winner.... [read full story]
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