This year's award went to La Prensa, Nicaragua's oldest paper that is forced to publish from abroad as President Daniel ...

PARIS — UNESCO on Sunday announced the withdrawal of Nicaragua from the United Nations’ cultural and educational body because of the awarding of its prize celebrating press freedom to a ...

Nicaragua angrily announced its withdrawal from the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in a letter that UNESCO's director general, Audrey Azoulay, said she received Sunday morning.

As Director-General of UNESCO, I received this morning a letter from the Government of Nicaragua announcing its withdrawal from the Organization in response to the awarding yesterday of the ...

UNESCO has announced Nicaragua is withdrawing from the UN cultural and educational body because the organisation awarded a prize celebrating press freedom to Nicaraguan newspaper, La Prensa.

Nicaragua has left UNESCO. This happened because UNESCO gave a press freedom prize to La Prensa, a Nicaraguan newspaper. Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO's director general, expressed regret. She mentioned ...

FILE - The main building of the UNESCO headquarters is seen through the Globe in Paris, France, Friday, Oct. 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, file) (Michel Euler ...