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The oldest Nobel Peace Prize laureate to date is Joseph Rotblat, who was 87 years old when he was awarded the prize in 1995.

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Jon Olav Fosse is a Norwegian author and dramatist. In 2023, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable".

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To date, the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in physics is Lawrence Bragg, who was 25 years old when he was awarded the Nobel Prize together with his father in 1915.

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Alexey Ivanovich Ekimov  is a Russian solid state physicist and Nobel laureate in Chemistry (2023) who discovered the semiconductor nanocrystals known as quantum dots, while working at the Vavilov State Optical Institute.

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China becomes first to name new Afghan ambassador under Taliban.

Zhao Xing was the first ambassador from any country to take up the post since August 2021, when the Taliban took over as U.S.-led foreign forces withdrew after 20 years.

Predecessor: Wang Yu

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No one has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature more than once.

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German footballer Robert Bauer has publicly revealed his conversion to Islam. The 27-year-old defender, who currently plies his trade with Saudi Arabian club Al-Tai FC, shared this decision with the world through his official Instagram account.

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The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is an intergovernmental military alliance in Eurasia consisting of six post-Soviet states: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan.

Formed: 2002

Secretary General: Imangali Tasmagambetov

Chairman: Alexander Lukashenko

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Storm Daniel, also known as Cyclone Daniel, was the deadliest and costliest Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone ever recorded as well as the deadliest cyclone worldwide since Cyclone Nargis in 2008. It was also the deadliest weather event of 2023 to date. Libya was hit the hardest, with torrential rains causing two dams near the city of Derna to fail

Fatalities  11,326

Damage    $2.16 billion

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• Claudia Goldin is an American economic historian and labor economist.
• In 1990, Goldin became the first tenured woman at Harvard's economics department.
• In 2023, she was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for having advanced our understanding of women's labor market outcomes".