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Nicaragua seizes Jesuit university
AFP, Published on 17/08/2023
» MANAGUA - A Jesuit university in Nicaragua said Wednesday it is suspending classes and all other activities after the leftist government announced the seizure of all its assets, accusing the school of terrorism.
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Lula hosts South American leaders' summit in Brazil
AFP, Published on 30/05/2023
» BRASíLIA - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is hosting his fellow South American leaders Tuesday for a "retreat" aimed at strengthening ties in a region where left-wing governments are newly back in style.
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Mahrez treble fires Man City into FA Cup final
AFP, Published on 23/04/2023
» LONDON - Riyad Mahrez fired Manchester City into the FA Cup final as the Algerian's hat-trick sealed a 3-0 win against Sheffield United at Wembley on Saturday.
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Pope marks 10 years with podcast and a diplomatic row
AFP, Published on 13/03/2023
» VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis marked 10 years as head of the Catholic Church on Monday with a podcast, a private mass and a series of interviews, one of which triggered a diplomatic spat with Nicaragua.
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Journalists, guerrillas, a former first lady: 10 of Nicaragua's freed dissidents
AFP, Published on 10/02/2023
» MANAGUA - Nicaragua's government on Thursday freed 222 people among hundreds of critics and opposition figures in jail for allegedly threatening the country's sovereignty among other charges widely denounced as bogus.
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Nicaragua frees 222 dissidents in sudden shift, expels them to US
AFP, Published on 10/02/2023
» WASHINGTON - Over 200 detained members of Nicaragua's opposition were freed Thursday and expelled to the United States, in a surprise move by the Central American country's increasingly authoritarian president, Daniel Ortega.
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Nicaraguan migrants flee to US
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 15/01/2023
» Twice a week at a petrol station on the western edge of Nicaragua's capital, local residents gather, carrying the telltale signs of people on the move: loaded backpacks, clothes and toiletries stuffed in plastic bags, and heavy jackets in preparation for a chilly journey far from the stifling heat.
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UN rights chief denounces crackdown in Nicaragua
AFP, Published on 16/12/2022
» GENEVA - Nicaragua is systematically working to stifle dissent, the UN's rights chief warned Thursday, pointing to swelling numbers of arbitrary detentions, thousands of NGOs shut down and "muzzling of the media".
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Pope 'concerned' after Nicaraguan bishop detained
AFP, Published on 22/08/2022
» VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis said Sunday he was "concerned" by rising tensions between the state and the Catholic church in Nicaragua, two days after bishop and regime critic Rolando Alvarez was detained.
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Cuban missile crisis redux in Nicaragua?
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 06/07/2022
» It was a piece of news so obscure and implausible that I missed it when it first surfaced last month. The news was that the Russians are going to put hypersonic nuclear missiles into Nicaragua and terrify the Americans into backing down over Ukraine. Or kill them all if they don't.
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