Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Former ICC Judge

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at the winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, big gains for French student protesters, and Ethiopia’s war allegations against Eritrea. ‘Peace Requires Justice’ The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on Friday to Navi Pillay, a South African-born jurist who has been involved in some of the biggest human rights cases of the modern day during her decades-long career. Yet granting the world’s greatest peace-building accolade to Pillay has drawn heavy criticism from Israel and the United States, which denounced her role on a United Nations panel that concluded that Israel…