A deal to end Colombia’s civil war was rejected but the Nobel committee urged the president to keep going guillermo legaria/afp/Getty ImagesPresident Santos of Colombia pledged to use his newly won Nobel peace prize to reinvigorate the stalled attempts to end the country’s 52-year civil war. The Norwegian Nobel committee ignored the fact that voters had rejected Mr Santos’s peace deal with Farc rebels in a referendum last weekend, saying it was awarding him the prize to give him “the strength to succeed”. Mr Santos said: “The message is that we have to persevere and reach the end of this war. We are very, very close, we just need to push a bit further.”The committee released a recording of the…

Source: The Times October 07, 2016 23:18 UTC