Dec. 3 -9, 2025
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FILE - The tiara of Winifred Dallas-Yorke, Duchess of Portland and the jewelry set, crafted by Garrard, London, 1889, sapphires, diamonds and pearls set in gold and silver, created for Winifred Dallas-Yorke, Duchess of Portland are displayed at the exhibition "Dynastic Jewels" organized by The Al Thani Collection Foundation at the Hôtel de la Marine museum in Paris, France, Monday, Dec. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)
FILE - The last super moon of the year, the "Cold Supermoon," rises behind the Statue of Freedom atop the U.S. Capitol, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
FILE - Women protest femicide following a series of cases, in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo, File)
FILE - Participants attend the yearly Santa Claus Run in Michendorf near Berlin, Germany , Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)
FILE - The tiara of Winifred Dallas-Yorke, Duchess of Portland and the jewelry set, crafted by Garrard, London, 1889, sapphires, diamonds and pearls set in gold and silver, created for Winifred Dallas-Yorke, Duchess of Portland are displayed at the exhibition "Dynastic Jewels" organized by The Al Thani Collection Foundation at the Hôtel de la Marine museum in Paris, France, Monday, Dec. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)
FILE - Maximiliano Rivero holds up his pet Manola at a Palermo neighborhood park as people set a world record of most Golden Retrievers gathered in a park, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Dec. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)
FILE - A Kashmiri man fishes from a traditional boat as the sun rises over Dal Lake on a foggy, cold morning in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File)
FILE - Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer greets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on the doorstep of 10 Downing Street, London, Monday, Dec. 8, 2025, as Larry the cat, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office walks past. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
FILE - A Christmas crib scene is displayed at the International Exhibition "100 Nativity Scenes in the Vatican" at St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, Dec. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)
FILE - Boys walk down a street carrying Syrian flags in the war-damaged Damascus suburb of Daraya, Syria, Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, ahead of celebrations marking the first anniversary of the ousting of the Bashar Assad regime. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki, File)
FILE - Bakary Bah, who fled Mali in 2023 when more than a dozen people including his brother where killed in his village, sits for a portrait in a camp in Mbera, Mauritania, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Caitlin Kelly, File)
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FILE - The last super moon of the year, the "Cold Supermoon," rises behind the Statue of Freedom atop the U.S. Capitol, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
FILE - Women protest femicide following a series of cases, in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo, File)
FILE - Participants attend the yearly Santa Claus Run in Michendorf near Berlin, Germany , Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)
FILE - The tiara of Winifred Dallas-Yorke, Duchess of Portland and the jewelry set, crafted by Garrard, London, 1889, sapphires, diamonds and pearls set in gold and silver, created for Winifred Dallas-Yorke, Duchess of Portland are displayed at the exhibition "Dynastic Jewels" organized by The Al Thani Collection Foundation at the Hôtel de la Marine museum in Paris, France, Monday, Dec. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)
FILE - Maximiliano Rivero holds up his pet Manola at a Palermo neighborhood park as people set a world record of most Golden Retrievers gathered in a park, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Dec. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)
FILE - A Kashmiri man fishes from a traditional boat as the sun rises over Dal Lake on a foggy, cold morning in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File)
FILE - Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer greets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on the doorstep of 10 Downing Street, London, Monday, Dec. 8, 2025, as Larry the cat, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office walks past. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
FILE - A Christmas crib scene is displayed at the International Exhibition "100 Nativity Scenes in the Vatican" at St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, Dec. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)
FILE - Boys walk down a street carrying Syrian flags in the war-damaged Damascus suburb of Daraya, Syria, Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, ahead of celebrations marking the first anniversary of the ousting of the Bashar Assad regime. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki, File)
FILE - Bakary Bah, who fled Mali in 2023 when more than a dozen people including his brother where killed in his village, sits for a portrait in a camp in Mbera, Mauritania, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Caitlin Kelly, File)
OSLO, Norway (AP) — The head of the Norwegian Nobel Institute said Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado will not attend the awards ceremony in Oslo on Wednesday.
Institute director Kristian Berg Harpviken told public broadcaster NRK the Venezuelan opposition leader was not in the Norwegian capital on the day of the ceremony and her daughter will accept the prize on Machado’s behalf.
The institute did not immediately respond to emails or calls from The Associated Press seeking comment.
A day earlier, a news conference that Machado was expected to attend was canceled. She last appeared in public 11 months ago.
Machado went into hiding and has not been seen in public since Jan. 9, when she was briefly detained after joining supporters in a protest in Caracas, Venezuela’s capital.
The 58-year-old’s win for her struggle to achieve a democratic transition in her South American nation was announced on Oct. 10, and she was described as a woman “who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness.”
Machado won an opposition primary election and intended to challenge President Nicolás Maduro in last year’s presidential election, but the government barred her from running for office. Retired diplomat Edmundo González took her place.
The lead-up to the July 28, 2024 election saw widespread repression, including disqualifications, arrests and human rights violations. That increased after the country’s National Electoral Council, which is stacked with Maduro loyalists, declared the incumbent the winner.
González sought asylum in Spain last year after a Venezuelan court issued a warrant for his arrest.
U.N. human rights officials and many independent rights groups have expressed concerns about the situation in Venezuela, and called for Maduro to be held accountable for the crackdown on dissent that he intensified.
From left: Colombia's former vice president Marta Lucía Ramírez, Pedro Urruchurtu Noselli and Magalli Meda, who are collaborators with the Nobel Prize winner, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, are seen at the Grand Hotel in Oslo, Tuesday Dec. 9, 2025. (Cornelius Poppe/NTB Scanpix via AP)
FILE - Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado displays vote tally sheets during a protest against the reelection of President Nicolas Maduro one month after the disputed presidential vote which she says the opposition won by a landslide, in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, file)