OSLO: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, has left Oslo, a member of her entourage said on Wednesday without providing details of her whereabouts.
“She is no longer in the city of Oslo,” Pedro Urruchurtu Noselli wrote on X.
Machado, who has lived in hiding in Venezuela since August 2024, arrived in Oslo last week.
She was due to attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in the Norwegian capital on Wednesday, but was delayed and did not make it in time.
According to a spokesperson, the 58-year-old opposition leader fractured a vertebra during her secret journey out of hiding in Venezuela to Norway.
She “is doing well and during these days she is attending medical appointments with a specialist as part of her prompt and full recovery,” Noselli said.
Machado has accused President Nicolas Maduro of stealing Venezuela’s July 2024 election, from which she was banned — a claim backed by much of the international community.
She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this year for promoting democratic rights and “for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”
Venezuela’s Nobel Peace Prize winner Machado has left Oslo
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Venezuela’s Nobel Peace Prize winner Machado has left Oslo
- “She is no longer in the city of Oslo,” Pedro Urruchurtu Noselli wrote on X
- Machado, who has lived in hiding in Venezuela since August 2024, arrived in Oslo last week
Jordanian king and British MPs in London discuss Middle Eastern developments
- King Abdullah is scheduled to meet UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and is due to chair a new round of the Aqaba Process initiative
- He warned that Israel’s illegal actions in the occupied West Bank undermine efforts to restore calm
LONDON: King Abdullah II of Jordan met in London on Monday with former British officials and members of Parliament to discuss the latest developments in the region.
King Abdullah warned that Israel’s illegal actions in the occupied West Bank, which aim to consolidate settlements and impose sovereignty over Palestinian land, undermine efforts to restore calm and threaten to escalate the conflict, according to the Petra news agency.
Discussions also addressed the UK’s role in supporting efforts to restore stability within the region, alongside developments in Jerusalem, Gaza, Syria, and Iran.
Crown Prince Hussein accompanies the Jordanian king, who is scheduled to meet UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and is due to chair a new round of the Aqaba Process initiative, launched in 2015, Petra added.
