Pope holds talks with Machado

POPE Leo XIV met with Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado in a private audience at the Vatican yesterday.

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The meeting, which had not been previously included in the list of Leo's planned appointments, was later listed by the Vatican in its daily bulletin, without adding details.

Ms Machado is touring Europe and the United States after she reemerged in December last year, following 11 months in hiding, to accept her Nobel Peace Prize in Norway.