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Supporters of ousted Honduras' President Manuel Zelaya protest outside the entrance to the international airport in Tegucigalpa, Sunday, July 5, 2009. After the Organization of American States, OAS, suspended Saturday night Honduras' participation in the organization because of last week coup, Zelaya took off for home Sunday in a Venezuelan jet in a high-stakes attempt to return to power, even as the interim government told its military to turn away the plane. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

Zelaya's plane circles Honduran runway, can't land

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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Ousted President Manuel Zelaya says he can't land at the main Honduras airport because soldiers are blocking the runway with several military vehicles.

  • FILE--  This is an undated handout image from  Global Radio News issued on Thursday June 25, 2009  of  Global Radio News freelance correspondent and The Washington Times reporter  Iason Athanasiadis-Fowden, known as Jason Fowden, who is holds Greek and British dual nationality .  Iran's state television is reporting that a Greek journalist that had been held for more than two weeks has been released.  State television Sunday  July 5, 2009 quoted a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, Hasan Qashqavi, as saying that Iason Athanasiadis-Fowden had been released in, what he described as the framework of Tehran-Athens ties.  Athanasiadis-Fowden was arrested on or around June 19. He has dual Greek and British citizenship and was believed to be the only foreigner being held by Iranian authorities in the post-election crackdown that has swept the country. (AP Photo/ Global Radio News, FILE )
    Iran: British-Greek reporter held for weeks freed Sun Jul 5, 1:58 PM ET

    TEHRAN, Iran - Iran said Sunday it has released a British-Greek journalist detained for two weeks during its postelection crackdown as opposition forces pressing their claims of fraud called for parliament to dismiss President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

  • Russian traditional wooden dolls, Matreshkas, depicting Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and U.S. President Barak Obama, are displayed by a street vendor in St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, July 3, 2009. Obama is to visit Russia on July 6-8. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
    Obama backs Medvedev's judicial reforms Sun Jul 5, 7:57 AM ET

    MOSCOW - President Barack Obama said strengthening human rights and the rule of law in Russia should be a part of the much-heralded "reset" in U.S.-Russian relations, according to an interview with an embattled Russian opposition newspaper.

  • FILE -- In this Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2006 file photo  miners dig for diamonds in Marange, eastern Zimbabwe.  Zimbabwe's official media says the coalition government has vowed to withdraw troops from the Marange diamond fields and pledged to meet international mining standards. The report Sunday July 5, 2009 follows allegations of human rights abuses and illegal exports of 'blood diamonds' from the gem-producing district in the east of the country.(AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi-File)
    Zimbabwe vows to pull troops out of diamond fields Sun Jul 5, 12:05 PM ET

    HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe has promised to withdraw its soldiers from diamond fields in the east, an official newspaper reported Sunday — a week after a rights group alleged the military was committing killings and abuses in the area.

  • In this photo taken Saturday, July 4, 2009, an Afghan police officer carries his gun on his shoulder, as a destroyed vehicle is seen in the background following a suicide attack in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital of Helmand province south of Kabul, Afghanistan. An Afghan civilian was killed and five others were wounded in the attack, Afghan police officials said. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaleq)
    3 British soldiers killed in southern Afghanistan Sun Jul 5, 6:02 PM ET

    KABUL - Insurgent attacks killed three British soldiers in the southern Afghanistan region where thousands of U.S. Marines pushed forward with the American military's biggest anti-Taliban offensive since the hard-line Islamist regime was toppled.

  • An Iraqi Army soldier stands guard in central Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, July 5, 2009. Iraqis are skeptical that much will change after last week's pullback of U.S. combat troops from Baghdad and other cities, a sentiment not shared by their government.(AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
    Iraqis skeptical about significance of US pullback Sun Jul 5, 9:31 AM ET

    BAGHDAD - Iraqis are skeptical that much will change after last week's pullback of U.S. combat troops from Baghdad and other cities, a sentiment not shared by their government.

  • In this May 11, 2009 photo,  Pierre Raul Nazair, a patient with HIV/AIDS, reads the bible at the St. Nicolas hospital in St. Marc, Haiti, Monday. Haitian infection rates dropped from 6.2 percent to 3.1 percent among expectant mothers in the last 15 years. Researchers recently switched to a new methodology that tests all adults, which puts Haiti's official rate at 2.2 percent, according to UNAIDS. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
    From Haiti, a surprise: good news about AIDS 2 hours, 37 minutes ago

    BLANCHARD, Haiti - When Micheline Leon was diagnosed with HIV, her parents told her they would fit her for a coffin.

  • About five hundred men and women from the Comoros Islands living in France, march in memory of the victims of Tuesday's Yemenia Airways plane crash near the Comoros Islands, in Paris, Sunday July 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
    Submarine detects signal from Yemenia black boxes Sun Jul 5, 2:28 PM ET

    PARIS - A submarine scouring the Indian Ocean on Sunday detected the signal beacons of the two black boxes from a Yemenia Airways flight that crashed off the Comoros Islands, the French aviation agency said.

  • Russian pagans from ancient cult greet solstice Sun Jul 5, 1:17 PM ET

    MALOYAROSLAVETS, Russia - Tambourine throbbing in hand, Velislav chants to gods whose cult has almost been obliterated by a millennium of Christianity in Russia.

  • Islamic fighters shoot towards Somali government forces during clashes, Friday, July 3, 2009 in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Over the past two months, Somali President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed's government has come under heavy attacks from Islamic insurgents pounding government positions with mortars and targeting senior officials in suicide attacks.  (AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)
    Somali fighting kills at least 12 in Mogadishu Sun Jul 5, 8:54 AM ET

    MOGADISHU, Somalia - Heavy shelling between Somali rebels and government forces near the presidential palace killed at least 12 people on Sunday, witnesses said, and the prime minister looked for help from more African Union peacekeepers.

  • Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, child actor of the Oscar-winning movie 'Slumdog Millionaire,' poses for media outside his new house in a residential complex in Mumbai, India, Saturday, July 4, 2009.  The makers of the hit movie bought the new home for Azhar, who lost his homes in May when authorities demolished parts of the slum area he lived in. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
    'Slumdog' kid star to move into new home next week Sun Jul 5, 9:16 AM ET

    MUMBAI, India - One of the impoverished child stars from "Slumdog Millionaire" will move from his shanty home in one of Mumbai's more wretched slums into a new apartment next week, his mother said Sunday.

  • Elderly Bulgarian woman leaves a polling booth at a polling station during the parliamentary elections in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, Sunday, July, 5, 2009. Bulgarians went to the polls Sunday in a parliamentary election expected to oust Bulgaria's Socialist-led coalition and elevate the center-right party of Sofia's popular mayor to power. Latest opinion polls have suggested Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev will pay the price for the failure of his corruption-tainted government to handle an economy hit hard by the global downturn. (AP Photo/Petar Petrov)
    Opposition party appears to win Bulgaria's vote Sun Jul 5, 5:08 PM ET

    SOFIA, Bulgaria - A right-wing opposition party appeared to win Bulgaria's parliamentary election by a wide margin on Sunday, and Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev conceded defeat.

  • Pakistani tribesmen carry their relative, who was injured in the fighting between Pakistani security forces and Taliban militants, after he received initial treatment at a local hospital in Miran Shah, the main town of Pakistan's tribal area North Waziristan along Afghan border, Sunday, July 5, 2009. Pakistani fighter jets bombed suspected Taliban positions in a tribal region that could end up the focus of a future military offensive, killing as many as six people Sunday, intelligence officials said. (AP Photo/Hasbunallah Khan)
    Pakistan: Jets target N. Waziristan, up to 6 die Sun Jul 5, 12:39 PM ET

    MIR ALI, Pakistan - Pakistani fighter jets targeted suspected Taliban hide-outs in a tribal region near Afghanistan on Sunday, killing as many as six people and raising the odds of a future military offensive there, intelligence officials said.

  • A boy helps his mother  to cast her vote on a polling station in Hermosillo, northern Mexico, Sunday, July 5, 2009. Mexicans went to the polls Sunday in elections for hundreds of mayors, six governorships and all seats in the lower house of Congress, in a vote that could decide the future of President Felipe Calderon's anti-crime and economic policies. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)
    Drug war, economy weigh on Mexico midterm election 1 hour, 53 minutes ago

    MEXICO CITY - Drug violence, an economic downturn and recent cases of political malfeasance weighed heavily in Sunday's midterm congressional elections that could decide the future of President Felipe Calderon's anti-crime and economic policies.

  • Filipinos stand beside debris caused by a bomb explosion just outside a Catholic church in Cotabato city, southern Philippines on Sunday July 5, 2009. Suspected Muslim guerrillas detonated a bomb outside the Immaculate Conception cathedral as churchgoers walked out after attending Mass. (AP Photo)
    Bomb blast near south Philippine cathedral kills 5 Sun Jul 5, 7:21 AM ET

    MANILA, Philippines - Suspected Muslim guerrillas detonated a bomb near a Roman Catholic cathedral in the southern Philippines on Sunday, killing at least five people and wounding 46.

  • Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, left, speaks during his interview with Italian journalists at at the Barvikha presidential residence outside Moscow, on Friday, July 3, 2009. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)
    Obama seeks new start in sagging US-Russia ties 2 hours, 24 minutes ago

    MOSCOW - Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev end a seven-year hiatus in U.S.-Russian summitry on Monday, with each declaring his determination to further cut nuclear arsenals and repair a badly damaged relationship.

  • Newly elected Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, right, leads Sunday prayers with Istanbul Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, left, in a show of unity at the patriarchal church of Aya Yorgi (St. George)in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, July 5, 2009. The churches in Istanbul and Moscow have been jostling for influence for years, but recently have pledged to overcome differences and achieve greater unity. Orthodox churches are largely autonomous, but the Istanbul-based Patriarchate is considered first among equals.(AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)
    Greek, Russian Orthodox leaders show unity Sun Jul 5, 9:35 AM ET

    ISTANBUL, Turkey - The spiritual leaders of the Orthodox Christian churches in Istanbul and Russia led Sunday prayers together in a show of unity after years of jostling for influence.

  • A South Korean man looks at a map of North Korean capital of Pyongyang beside a picture of a North Korean rocket, which was fired in April, on display in Paju near the border village of the Panmunjom, South Korea, Sunday, July 5, 2009. Ballistic missiles that North Korea launched this weekend are believed capable of striking key government and military facilities throughout South Korea, an official said Sunday, amid growing concerns over Pyongyang's strike capabilities. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
    SKorea says NKorean missiles can hit key targets Sun Jul 5, 3:27 PM ET

    SEOUL, South Korea - The ballistic missiles that North Korea test-fired this weekend were likely capable of striking key government and military facilities in South Korea, a defense official said Sunday, amid growing concerns over Pyongyang's firepower.

  • In this July 4, 2009 image released by Taronga Zoo a newly born baby elephant is pictured with his mother. The male calf - so far without a name - was born in Sydney's Taronga Zoo on Saturday and was healthy and generating many curious responses from among its herd, zoo officials said. (AP Photo/Taronga Zoo)
    First Asian elephant born in Australian zoo Sun Jul 5, 7:22 AM ET

    SYDNEY - A 265-pound (120-kilogram), big-eared and long-nosed bundle of joy was welcomed in Australia as an important step in helping to save the endangered Asian elephant.

  • U.S. Marines from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, 1st Battalion 5th Marines patrol through a village in the Nawa district in Afghanistan's Helmand province Saturday, July 4, 2009. Taliban militants attacked a U.S. coalition base in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday with an explosives-laden truck that blew up outside the gates, sparking a two-hour gunbattle and killing two American troops, officials said. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
    Marines march in grueling Afghan sun for July 4 Sat Jul 4, 11:24 PM ET

    NAWA, Afghanistan - Taliban militants were nowhere in sight as the columns of U.S. Marines walked a third straight day across southern Afghanistan. But the desert heat proved an enemy in its own right, with several troops falling victim Saturday to temperatures topping 100 degrees Fahrenheit.