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Ukraine cuts ties with Nicaragua over occupied territories recognition
Ukraine has severed diplomatic relations with Nicaragua after the Central American nation formally recognised Russian sovereignty over occupied Ukrainian territories, in Kyiv's harshest rebuke yet to the dwindling group of nations backing Moscow's...

Did Trump Notice Where His Presidential Library Will Be Built?
Presidential libraries often attempt to elevate accomplishments and whitewash failures. Donald Trump and his family think that Florida officials have given them a prime location to do just that with his library. But by choosing this setting, they...

Nicaragua: Eight Chinese Companies with Mining Concessions
View of heavy machinery working in an open-pit mine in Nicaragua. | Photo: Taken from the Santa Fe Group. The total area of the concessions exceeds the surface area of some departments such as Managua, Chinandega and Estelí, according to an...
Mask Off US Empire: War Secretary Tells Military To Commit War Crimes
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gathered generals and told them to commit war crimes and ignore international law. Trump ordered the military to use US cities as “training grounds” to fight the “enemy within”. US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth...

Venezuela conducts special exercise with its Armed Forces and militias in response to US military threat
The Venezuelan Armed Forces and militias are conducting a special exercise across the country this Saturday as part of the country’s preparations for the US military threat. “Today, Saturday, October 4th, the day of Special Military Exercises. A...

‘Political will’ needed to restore external power to Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, UN watchdog says
The head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog said on Friday he was discussing proposals with Russia and Ukraine to restore off-site power to the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, calling it a “question of political will”. Europe’s largest...

Pope Leo XIV receives detailed report on attacks against the Catholic Church in Nicaragua
ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 4, 2025 / 09:00 am Pope Leo XIV this week received the report “Nicaragua: A Persecuted Church” by researcher Martha Patricia Molina, which details the prohibition of more than 16,500 processions and acts of piety as well as...

UN experts demand Nicaragua clarify fate of over 120 forcibly disappeared since 2018
United Nations human rights experts called on Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s government on Friday to clarify the fate and whereabouts of more than 120 individuals who appear to have been forcibly disappeared after the violent suppression of...

UN urges Nicaragua to account for over 120 people forcibly disappeared
GENEVA: United Nations experts have urged Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s government to clarify the fate and whereabouts of more than 120 people forcibly disappeared since 2018. The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances...

Ortega’s border business: $6,000 to be able to return to Nicaragua
José David hadn’t left Nicaragua for more than two years. In April, he decided to take advantage of Easter vacations to travel to Miami to visit his aunts and uncles and cousins. Delighted to be reunited as a family, they went to a theme park in...

Trump Administration Scores Major Supreme Court Legal Victory, Ending de Facto Amnesty Program
WASHINGTON – On Friday, the Supreme Court of the United States granted an emergency request by the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for over 300,000 Venezuelan aliens in the United States. In the 6-3 ruling, the Supreme...

President Nayib Bukele Highlights Brotherhood Among Central American Nations
President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador shared a video on his official X account showcasing the ceremony commemorating Central American Independence Day, celebrated each year on September 15 in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa...

International News: El Salvador sentences former officials for Gang negotiations
Views: 230 Views: 228 Posted: Thursday, October 2, 2025. 2:12 pm CST. By Zoila Palma: A Salvadoran court has sentenced 3 former officials from the country’s main opposition parties, ARENA and FMLN, for negotiating electoral support from the MS-13...

Faculty Profile: Professor Mary Ellen O’Connell, Globally Influential Scholar of International Law and Peace
Professor Mary Ellen O’Connell teaching at the Seoul Academy of International Law in July 2025 Professor Mary Ellen O’Connell holds the Robert & Marion Short Chair in Law at Notre Dame Law School and is also Professor of International Peace...

Pope Leo XIV receives documented report on religious persecution in Nicaragua
(ZENIT News / Vatican City, 10.03.2025).- The plight of Nicaragua’s embattled Catholic Church has reached the desk of Pope Leo XIV, thanks to the determined advocacy of Muriel Sáenz, a Nicaraguan migrant rights defender now based in the United...

Mask off US empire: War secretary tells military to commit war crimes, as Trump threatens ‘enemy within’
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gathered top generals and encouraged the military to commit war crimes and ignore international law. “You kill people and break things for a living”, Hegseth proudly told the military commanders, calling for...

Report: Nicaragua Signs Massive $57 Million ‘Wind Farm’ Deal with Communist China
The communist Ortega regime in Nicaragua signed its fourth contract with the China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), a major actor in China’s Belt and Road Initiative debt trap program and a state company sanctioned by the United States,...
UN urges Nicaragua to account for over 120 people forcibly disappeared since 2018
(Reuters) -United Nations experts on Friday urged Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s government to “clarify the fate and whereabouts” of more than 120 people who they said appeared to have been forcibly disappeared since authorities violently...

Ukraine Breaks Off Diplomatic Relations with Nicaragua Over Support for Russian Occupation
Ukraine has officially cut diplomatic relations with the Republic of Nicaragua over the country’s recognition of Russia’s “sovereignty” over the temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories. This was announced by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of...
UN Experts Say Continuing Repression Of Population Through Enforced Disappearances Must Stop: Nicaragua
OHCHR GENEVA – UN experts* today urged Nicaraguan authorities to clarify the fate and whereabouts of more than 120 people who have been forcibly disappeared in the country, including those detained in connection with the 2018 human rights crisis....