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Colombian President Santos Wins Nobel Peace Prize

by Reuters

   OSLO --

   Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize
   on Friday in a surprise after Colombians voted "No" to an agreement he
   signed with Marxist rebels to end 52 years of war.

   Santos has promised to revive a peace plan even though Colombians, in a
   referendum on Sunday, narrowly rejected the accord. Many voters
   reckoned it was too lenient on the FARC guerrillas.

   The Nobel Peace Prize, worth 8 million Swedish crowns ($930,000), will
   be presented in Oslo on Dec. 10.