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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Andrew Roth in Washington and Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent

White House slams Trump’s perceived Nobel peace prize snub as ‘politics over peace’

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Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House on Thursday. Photograph: Samuel Corum/UPI/Shutterstock

The White House has denounced the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s decision to award the Nobel peace prize to someone other than Donald Trump.

Following Friday’s announcement that the Venezuelan opposition politician María Corina Machado had been awarded the prize, senior aides to the US president attacked the Norwegian committee as politicised while Norway braced itself for a potential diplomatic response from the White House.

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