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Ousted President Manuel Zelaya said Friday that a U.S.-brokered pact will restore him to power in about a week, ending Honduras ' isolation four months after soldiers flew the leftist leader into exile in his pajamas.The agreement is a U.S. foreign policy victory but casts doubt on Latin America's ability to work out its own problems without Washington's help. In the four months since the coup, talks repeatedly broke down as the government of President Barack Obama tried to let Latin American governments take the lead.In the end, the top U.S. envoy for the Americas flew in Wednesday and won a deal the following night — just a month before presidential elections the U.S. and other countries warned would not be recognized if held under the government that took power in the June 28 coup.The power-sharing agreement calls for Congress to decide whether to reinstate Zelaya and allow him to serve the remaining three months of his term.And while it imposed no deadline, Zelaya told The Associat...
Hopes for a quick resolution to the post-coup leadership crisis in Honduras have dimmed, with the two rivals fighting over the presidency refusing to meet. They emer...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez denounced a U.S.-backed effort to ease Honduras' coup crisis on Friday even as mediators tried — so far unsuccessfully — to find a c...
Honduras' deposed president set up base near his country's border to prepare a return home, urging soldiers to ignore an arrest order against him and shrugging off w...
Ousted President Manuel Zelaya took a symbolic step into his homeland Friday, vowing to reclaim his post a month after soldiers flew him into exile.But he stayed les...
WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is considering action against Honduras in the wake of its military takeover, a move that could lead to suspen...
Honduras ' interim leader said Tuesday he doesn't fear sanctions after an international delegation failed to win a pledge to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya a...
The State Department on Tuesday called for calm in Honduras after ousted President Manuel Zelaya made a surprise return to the country the day before. Without direct...
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called de factor Honduran leader Roberto Micheletto to warn him about the consequences for his country if it does not permit o...
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced Tuesday that Costa Rica's president will mediate the political crisis in Honduras , after holding what she described as ...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Troops from Uruguay are regularly among U.N. peacekeeping forces deployed around the world, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clint...
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has pulled out of a meeting of Nobel Peace Prize winners that starts Friday in Japan due to poor health.Gorbachev, who was ...
TOKYO (AP) — Five Nobel peace laureates are calling on President Barack Obama to visit Hiroshima later this year to re-energize his call for a world without nuclear ...
Exiled Honduran President Manuel Zelaya sought to increase pressure on his country's interim government, promising to camp out across the border in Nicaragua with hi...
Costa Rican President Oscar Arias says both sides in the talks to resolve the coup in Honduras have agreed to resume talks Sunday, but they remain far apart.Arias sa...
Aides to ousted President Manuel Zelaya pushed Monday for international sanctions against Honduran officials who took power in a coup and foreign nations stepped up ...
WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's weeklong, five-nation tour of Latin America is certain to focus on the earthquake in Chile while she also t...
Honduras' de facto ruler does not plan to confront Brazil, but says the country's ousted president can stay at the embassy for "5 to 10 years," Reuters reported Tues...
President Alvaro Uribe has contracted H1N1 flu and officials are contacting other South American governments whose leaders attended a summit last week with the Colom...
Honduras' coup-installed government plans to block the arrival of a commission of foreign ministers heading to the country this weekend to help resolve the country's...