Clinton in Nobel peace nominees list

OSLO: A total of 231 nominees are up for the Nobel Peace Prize this year, the Nobel Institute said on Monday, with Bill Clinton, Helmut Kohl, the EU and US soldier and Bradley Manning on the list. "As always, there are the usual nominees and some newcomers, some famous and some unknowns, hailing from the four corners of the world," the head of the Nobel Institute, Geir Lundestad, said. With 188 individuals and 43 organizations, the number comes close to last year's record of 241.
Among the people known to have been nominated this year are former United States president Bill Clinton, ex-German chancellor Helmut Kohl who led his country's reunification process , and Ukraine's ex-premier and now jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko .
Also on the list is jailed American soldier Manning, charged with 22 counts for turning over a massive cache of classified US documents to WikiLeaks. Despite its current crisis the European Union is also among the candidates .