Bush, Blair nominees for Nobel Prize

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair, US President George Bush and the European Union were among nominees for the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize as the nomination deadline ran out yesterday.

The five-member Norwegian awards committee, which keeps the names of candidates secret, accepts nominations postmarked by February 1.

It expects to have a rough count of the number of nominations by February 13, and a final one after the committee’s first meeting of the year on March 2, when members can forward their own candidates.