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OSLO — President Barack Obama and his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy are thought to be among a record 205 nominations for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.
The secretive awards committee, which released its final nominations count Friday, keeps the names of candidates secret for 50 years. But some of the thousands of people with nominating rights do announce their nominees.
The committee said 172 individuals and 33 organizations were on the list. The previous record was 199, in 2005.
