Managua - An unknown attacker fired four shots at Nicaragua's Attorney General Hernan Estrada on Monday, but the official escaped with only light injuries, authorities said.
The attack occurred as Estrada was exercising at a gym near his home in the capital. He was injured in the neck.
Local media reported it was the first attack in decades on a high government official.
New York - A doctor from Egypt and a non-government organization from Nicaragua have won the 2009 United Nations Population Award for raising awareness on population issues, the UN Fund for Population said Tuesday.
Mahmoud Fathalla founded the Egyptian Fertility Care Society, one of the first family planning organizations in Egypt, in 1974, and has since been advising his government on issues related to population and health. He is a renowned doctor and professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at Assiut University in Egypt.
Managua - In Nicaragua, tourists can be found strolling through Parque Central in the colonial city of Granada, driving to the crater of the Masaya volcano or swimming in the surf of the Pacific Ocean.
Twenty years after the end of the civil war, tourism has become an every day feature in this Central American country.
Many tourists often return to Nicaragua in search of new adventures, not least of all the "Caribbean Feeling" the country provides on its quiet eastern coastline.
Managua, Nicaragua - Members of the Central American Integration System (SICA) , pledged Thursday at the intergovernmental organization's 34th summit to speed up regional integration in the view of the global economic downturn.
At the summit held in the Nicaraguan capital Managua, the country's president, Daniel Ortega, took over SICA's chairmanship for the next six months.
Moscow - Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega met with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev Thursday on his first visit to Moscow in over two decades as Russia angles to restore a Soviet-era alliance in Latin America, traditionally a region of US influence.
"Russia wants to build robust, full-fledged and long-term relations with all of Latin America and such important partners as Nicaragua, in particular," Medvedev said.
Managua - An unknown attacker fired four shots at Nicaragua's Attorney General Hernan Estrada on Monday, but the official escaped with only light injuries, authorities said.
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New York - A doctor from Egypt and a non-government organization from Nicaragua have won the 2009 United Nations Population Award for raising awareness on population issues, the UN Fund for Population said Tuesday.
Managua, Nicaragua - Members of the Central American Integration System (SICA) , pledged Thursday at the intergovernmental organization's 34th summit to speed up regional integration in the view of the global economic downturn.
Moscow - Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega met with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev Thursday on his first visit to Moscow in over two decades as Russia angles to restore a Soviet-era alliance in Latin America, traditionally a region of US influence.
