The activist, who is serving a 10-year sentence in Tehran, was honored “for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran.”

The Nobel Peace Prize was on Friday awarded to jailed Belarusian human rights activist Ales Bialiatski and two human rights NGOs: Russia’s Memorial and Ukraine’s Center for Civil Liberties.

COLOMBIAN President Juan Manuel Santos won the Nobel Peace Prize overnight for his efforts to end a five-decades-long civil war that has killed more than 200,000 people in the South American country.

Shimon Peres, who served twice as Israel's prime minister and once as president, has died at the age of 93.