Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur, October 10, 2026. Malaysian media are devoting their coverage of the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize less to the laureate's background than to the confrontation that followed its announcement on Friday, October 9, between Washington and Oslo.

Malay Mail, quoting an AFP dispatch from Oslo, reports the reaction of Navi Pillay, 85, a South African jurist. Upon learning of the prize in Nuremberg, she initially thought it was a joke: "As a lawyer and judge, I still want to verify," she said. She also joked in front of the crowd that applauded her: "If you applaud a little more, I might share this prize with Trump." The newspaper specifies that the prize includes a gold medal, a diploma, and $1.2 million, and that the ceremony will take place in Oslo on December 10.

The same article emphasizes the report of the UN inquiry commission on Gaza. Navi Pillay sees it as "the last thing" she did: the document qualifies as genocide what is happening in the territory. She is surprised that people praise her "courage": "why would it take courage to tell the truth?" Malay Mail recalls that this commission does not speak on behalf of the UN.

The Sun MY and The Vibes focus on Donald Trump. During a meeting in Syracuse (New York), the American president deemed the decision "shameful and embarrassing," saw it as "an indelible stain" on Norway, said he had "never heard of" the laureate, and claimed that the United States, "represented by me," should have received the prize. He added that the Nobel Prize was "discredited forever" by "a handful of radical ideologues" and said: "We will not forget, Norway."

The Sun MY notes that, according to experts interviewed in Oslo before the announcement, the war against Iran, the designs on Greenland, the hard line on migrants, and the attacks on multilateralism ruled out Trump for the prize. The Vibes notes that Trump listed conflicts he claims to have helped resolve, between North and South Korea or China and Taiwan, without providing evidence.

The three articles describe a prize that draws attention to Gaza and international justice. None of them report, in the provided pool, the American sanctions against the International Criminal Court or the Israeli or European reactions.