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Thailand: Newspaper “awards” Roberto Baggio with Nobel Peace Prize

Written byMong Palatino
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Posted 11 November 2010 15 years ago

The Nation, a major broadsheet in Thailand, made the mistake of naming football legend Roberto Baggio as one of the winners of this year's Nobel Peace Prize’. It has since then corrected the inaccurate news item but netizens have already documented the mistake.

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