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Nicaraguan police are monitoring the brother of President Daniel Ortega

Nicaragua’s National Police appear to confirm that retired Gen. Humberto Ortega, brother of President Daniel Ortega, has been under guard since local media reports emerged two days earlier that police had surrounded his home.

The top UN court rejects Nicaragua’s request for Germany to halt aid to Israel

Germany rejects allegations that it’s facilitating acts of genocide in Gaza at UN court

Nicaragua urges top UN court to halt German military aid to Israel because of its assault in Gaza

Top UN court will hold hearings in a case accusing Germany of facilitating Israel’s Gaza conflict

The top UN court rejects Nicaragua’s request for Germany to halt aid to Israel

The top United Nations court has rejected a request by Nicaragua to order Germany to halt military and other aid to Israel and renew funding to the U.N. aid agency in Gaza. The International Court of Justice said Tuesday that legal conditions for making such an order weren’t met. (April 30)

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The top UN court rejects Nicaragua’s request for Germany to halt aid to Israel

Nicaragua urges top UN court to halt German military aid to Israel over Gaza assault, AP explains

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US missionary group pledges to appeal the convictions of 11 members in Nicaragua

The U.S.-based missionary group Mountain Gateway says it will file appeals against the convictions of 11 members of the group who were jailed in December by Nicaragua on money laundering charges.

Panama demands Nicaragua rein in former President Ricardo Martinelli

Panama has accused Nicaragua of meddling in its internal affairs by allowing former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli to continue taking swipes at the justice system and promoting his political allies from within the walls of the Nicaraguan embassy.

In Senegal’s capital, Nicaragua is a hot ticket among travel agents as migrants try to reach US

In Senegal’s capital, Nicaragua is a hot ticket among travel agents serving people who want to live in the United States.

UN experts accuse Nicaragua’s government of abuses ‘tantamount to crimes against humanity’

A panel of U.N.-backed human rights experts has accused Nicaragua’s government of committing “serious systematic human rights violations, tantamount to crimes against humanity.”

Panama’s judiciary orders arrest of ex-president holed up in Nicaragua’s embassy

Panamanian authorities have ordered the arrest of former President Ricardo Martinelli who has been holed up in the Nicaraguan Embassy since receiving political asylum from that country earlier this month.

Nicaragua shuts down scouting association and several other social and religious groups

Nicaragua’s government has shut down the country’s scouting organization and seven other nongovernmental organizations, state media La Gaceta reported Friday, capping a crackdown that has seen the government toss out religious orders, charities and civic groups.

Nicaragua’s crackdown on Catholic Church spreads fear among the faithful, there and in exile

Nineteen priests kicked out of the country, dozens of incidents of harassment and church desecrations, rural areas lacking worship and social services.

No charges for off-duty officers in fatal shooting of 2 men outside Nebraska bar

A prosecutor says he won’t charge two off-duty police officers who shot and killed two men while working weekend security at a bar in Nebraska’s largest city.

Panama ex-President Ricardo Martinelli receives political asylum from Nicaragua

Panama’s former President Ricardo Martinelli has received political asylum from Nicaragua days after the country’s Supreme Court denied his appeal over a money laundering conviction that carried a 10-year sentence.

Nicaragua says it released Bishop Rolando Álvarez and 18 priests from prison

The Vatican says Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Álvarez and 18 Catholic clergy members from the Latin American country have arrived in Rome and are guests of the Holy See.

Nicaragua opponent exiled in Costa Rica wounded in shooting

Costa Rican officials say that a member of the Nicaraguan opposition has been shot seven times and is in serious condition in Costa Rica.

276 Indians stuck in a French airport for days for a human trafficking probe arrive in India

A charter plane grounded in France for a human trafficking investigation has arrived in India carrying 276 Indians who had been blocked inside a rural French airport for days.

Grounded charter jet freed to leave France. Lawyer says most passengers expected to return to India

A charter plane sequestered in France while carrying 303 Indians to Nicaragua has been authorized to leave the airport where it has been grounded for a human trafficking investigation.

About 300 Indian travelers are stuck in a French airport in a human trafficking probe

Authorities in France say about 300 Indian citizens heading to Central America are sequestered in a French airport for a third day because of an investigation into suspected human trafficking.

2 Guinean children are abandoned in Colombian airport as African migrants take new route to US

Colombian authorities say two children from the West African nation of Guinea were abandoned in Bogota’s airport and taken into government custody this week after spending several days on their own in the international departures terminal.

Police charge director of Miss Nicaragua pageant with running ‘beauty queen coup’ plot

Nicaraguan police say they want to arrest the director of the Miss Nicaragua pageant, accusing her of intentionally rigging contests so that anti-government beauty queens would win the pageants as part of a plot to overthrow the government.

A new study says about half of Nicaragua’s population wants to emigrate

A new study says that about half of Nicaragua’s population of 6.2 million want to leave their homeland because of a mix of economic decline and repression from President Daniel Ortega’s government.

Nicaragua’s Miss Universe title win exposes deep political divide in the Central American country

Nicaragua’s increasingly isolated and repressive government thought it had scored a rare public relations victory last week when Miss Nicaragua Sheynnis Palacios won the Miss Universe competition.

US calls Nicaragua’s decision to leave Organization of American States a ‘step away from democracy’

The U.S. State Department is calling Nicaragua’s formal withdrawal from the Organization of American States “another step away from Democracy.”

Nicaragua’s exiled clergy and faithful in Miami keep up struggle for human rights at Mass

For the auxiliary bishop of Managua, fellow priests and many in the pews who have had to flee or were exiled from Nicaragua recently, the Sunday afternoon Mass at a Miami parish is not only a way to find solace in community.

The Organization of American States warns Nicaragua it will keep watching even as the country exits

The Organization of American States says it will continue closely monitoring Nicaragua’s democracy and human rights record even after the country’s imminent exit from the regional body later this month.

Haiti bans charter flights to Nicaragua in blow to migrants fleeing poverty and violence

Haiti’s government has banned all charter flights to Nicaragua that migrants fleeing poverty and violence had been increasingly using in their quest to reach the United States.

Nicaragua is ‘weaponizing’ US-bound migrants as Haitians pour in on charter flights, observers say

Flight data shows that more than 260 charter flights believed to be carrying migrants from Haiti have touched down in Nicaragua in recent months.

Central America scrambles as the international community fails to find solution to record migration

Panama and Costa Rica have set up a bus system to speed the flow of migrants from the Darien Gap to Costa Rica’s border with Nicaragua.

Nicaragua releases 12 Catholic priests and sends them to Rome, following agreement with the Vatican

Nicaragua has released 12 Roman Catholic priests jailed on a variety of charges and sent them to Italy following an agreement reached with the Vatican.

UN says Nicaragua’s human rights violations and persecution of dissidents are on the rise

Nicaragua has increased human rights violations and persecution of the opposition as it ratchets up its efforts to stifle dissent, a United Nations group of experts monitoring the country says.

Alumni grieve for Jesuit-run university seized by Nicaraguan government that transformed their lives

The government of President Daniel Ortega described the Jesuit-run University of Central America in Nicaragua as a “center of terrorism” and seized its property, buildings and bank accounts on August 16.

Biden policy allowing migrants from 4 countries into the US is praised, criticized at Texas trial

A key portion of President Joe Biden’s immigration policy that grants parole to thousands of people from Central America and the Caribbean is being debated in a Texas federal courtroom.

Nicaraguan government bans Jesuit order and says all its property will be confiscated

Nicaragua’s government has declared the Jesuit religious order illegal, and ordered the confiscation of all its property.

US cancels visas of 100 more Nicaraguan officials for their role in ‘undermining democracy’

The U.S. State Department has imposed visa restrictions on 100 more Nicaraguan officials for their role in supporting the regime of President Daniel Ortega.