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Nobel Peace Prize: International campaign to abolish nuclear weapons awarded
She is one of the most important Iranian voices currently speaking from outside the country, and now Shirin Ebadi has given her first interview since the start of the uprising in Iran to FRANCE 24. She was Iran's first female judge before losing her right to practice in 1979 amid the creation of the Islamic Republic. She dedicated her life to defending the most vulnerable in Iran and tried to demonstrate the contradictions of the Islamic laws in effect. Awarded the Nobel Prize in 2003, she was forced to flee Iran in 2009.
Resumed talks to save the Iran nuclear deal are the Islamic republic's "last chance" to take a "serious" position, UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss says at a G7 foreign ministers meeting. SOUNDBITE
Nuclear disarmament campaign group ICAN wins the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to consign the atomic bomb to history, firing off a warning that Donald Trump's presidency showed the true extent of the risk posed by weapons of mass destruction.
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