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Argentina captain Lionel Messi won a record-extending eighth Ballon d'Or 2023 for the best player in the world.

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The 3rd Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation was held between 17 and 18 October 2023 in Beijing, China. 

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Clive Lloyd of West Indies and Ricky Ponting of Australia are the only captains to win the trophy twice. Lloyd clinched the cup in 1975 and 1979 while the legendary Australian batsman won in 2003 and 2007. 

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 was awarded to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov "for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots"

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There is one posthumous Nobel Peace Prize, to Dag Hammarskjöld in 1961.

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Pakistan applied to join BRICS grouping.

• Know everything about BRICS: 
• BRICS founded: June 2009
  
• BRICS Member countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates
  
• BRICS total members: 10 
• South Africa joined BRICS: 2010
• BRICS headquarters: Shanghai, China
• BRICS first conference hosted by: Russia (2009) 

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The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 is awarded to the Norwegian author Jon Fosse, “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”

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1.  Emiliano Martínez is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Aston Villa and the Argentina national team.
2. The Yashin Trophy is an association football award presented annually by France Football to the best performing goalkeeper.

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1. German pacifist and journalist Carl von Ossietzky
2. Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi
3. Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo
4. Belarus human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski
5. Iranian human rights advocate and freedom fighter Narges Mohammadi

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• Pierre Agostini is a French experimental physicist known for his pioneering work in attosecond science.
• He was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics alongside Ferenc Krausz and Anne L'Huillier.