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Military ordered to turn back Zelaya's jet

Supporters of ousted Honduras' President Manuel Zelaya stand next to the fence protecting the airfield as soldiers guard the international airport on the other side in Tegucigalpa, Saturday, July 4, 2009. Zelaya announced Saturday that he would return to Honduras to try to retake office following last week's military-backed coup, despite the interim government's insistence that he faces arrest and trial. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Honduras braced for confrontation Sunday as ousted President Manuel Zelaya insisted on coming home to reclaim his post, urging his supporters to mass at the airport for a showdown with the interim government in power since the army sent him into exile a week ago.

Middle East News

  • 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 AP - 39 minutes ago

    TEHRAN, Iran - Iran has released a British-Greek journalist held for more than two weeks since demonstrations erupted following disputed presidential elections, Iran's state television reported Sunday.

  • 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 AP - 2 hours, 33 minutes ago

    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.

  • AP - 2 hours, 51 minutes ago

    TEHRAN, Iran - Iran TV announces the release of Greek journalist after two weeks of detention.

Europe News

  • AP - 1 minute ago

    SOFIA, Bulgaria - Exit poll says Bulgaria's right-wing opposition GERB party has won the parliamentary election.

  • Foreign Minister David Miliband, seen here in June 2009, says Iran will release an eighth employee of the British embassy in Tehran. Iran arrested a total of nine local embassy staff on June 28.(AFP/File/John Thys)
    Iran to free eighth British embassy worker: Miliband AFP - 5 minutes ago

    LONDON (AFP) - Iran is to release an eighth Iranian employee of the British embassy in Tehran later on Sunday, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said, bringing to one the number still in custody.

  • Britain's ambassador to the UN John Sawers talks to the press after a Security Council meeting at the United Nations in New York in April. Photographs and personal details about Sawers, the next head of the MI6 foreign intelligence service, were removed Sunday from social networking website Facebook after a newspaper published them.(AFP/File/Emmanuel Dunand)
    Incoming MI6 chief in Facebook security slip AFP - 8 minutes ago

    LONDON (AFP) - Photographs and personal details about the next head of the MI6 foreign intelligence service, John Sawers, were removed Sunday from social networking website Facebook after a newspaper published them.

Latin America

  • Supporters of ousted Honduras' President Manuel Zelaya stand next to the fence protecting the airfield as soldiers guard the international airport on the other side in Tegucigalpa, Saturday, July 4, 2009. Zelaya announced Saturday that he would return to Honduras to try to retake office following last week's military-backed coup, despite the interim government's insistence that he faces arrest and trial. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
    Military ordered to turn back Zelaya's jet AP - 5 minutes ago

    TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Honduras braced for confrontation Sunday as ousted President Manuel Zelaya insisted on coming home to reclaim his post, urging his supporters to mass at the airport for a showdown with the interim government in power since the army sent him into exile a week ago.

  • People pass an advertisement for the Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI, in Mexico City, Saturday, July 4, 2009. Mexico's President Felipe Calderon and his drug war will get their biggest test of support yet when Mexico holds midterm elections Sunday amid growing frustration over rampant cartel violence and a shrinking economy. The banner reads in Spanish: 'This July 5 vote PRI'. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
    Drug war, economy weigh on Mexico midterm election AP - 13 minutes ago

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

  • The Organization of American States meets in emergency session, in at the OAS in Washington, to consider suspending Honduras' membership because of the coup that ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya, Saturday, July 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
    OAS suspends Honduras after coup AP - Sun Jul 5, 1:56 AM ET

    WASHINGTON - The OAS on Saturday night suspended Honduras participation in the organization because of last week's military coup.

Africa News

  • 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 AP - 28 minutes ago

    HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe has pledged to remove its troops 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.

  • A member of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) poses with a heavy machine-gun in the Niger Delta in 2008. MEND rebels announced on Sunday they had launched a fresh attack on an oil facility run by the Anglo-Dutch group Shell in the restive Niger Delta.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)
    Nigerian rebels claim new attack on Shell facility AFP - 1 hour, 43 minutes ago

    LAGOS (AFP) - Nigerian rebels announced on Sunday they had launched a fresh attack on an oil facility run by the Anglo-Dutch group Shell in the restive Niger Delta.

  • The candidate for the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde, Malam Bacai Sanha pictured outside a polling station in Bissau on June 28. The second round of presidential elections in Guinea-Bissau has been brought forward to July 26 to enable farmers in the west African nation to continue harvesting unhindered, a statement said on Sunday.(AFP/File/Seyllou)
    Guinea-Bissau presidential vote brought forward AFP - 2 hours, 56 minutes ago

    BISSAU (AFP) - The second round of presidential elections in Guinea-Bissau has been brought forward to July 26 to enable farmers in the west African nation to continue harvesting unhindered, a statement said on Sunday.

Asia News

  • Chinese police patrol Urumqi Airport in August 2008. Violence has broken out in Urumqi -- the capital of China's mainly Muslim northwest region of Xinjiang -- where an unknown number of people attacked passers-by and torched vehicles.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)
    Violence erupts in China's restive Xinjiang: media AFP - 24 minutes ago

    BEIJING (AFP) - Violence broke out Sunday in the capital of China's mainly Muslim northwest region of Xinjiang where an unknown number of people attacked passers-by and torched vehicles, state media reported.

  • Fans wait under the scoreboard as rain delays the start of the fourth one-day international between West Indies and India at the Beausejour cricket ground in Gros-Islet, St Lucia. India won the toss and decided to take the field.(AFP/Timothy A. Clary)
    India bat first in final West Indies ODI AFP - 1 hour, 9 minutes ago

    GROS-ISLET, St Lucia (AFP) - India won the toss and decided to take the field on Sunday in the fourth and final one-day international against West Indies at the Beausejour Cricket Ground.

  • 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 AP - 1 hour, 17 minutes ago

    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.

Canada

  • Canadian police probe sixth gas pipeline bombing Reuters - Sat Jul 4, 8:57 PM ET

    VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - An explosion damaged a natural gas pipeline in northeast British Columbia on Saturday, the sixth attack on an energy facility in that area of the Canadian province in recent months.

  • Canada, U.S. unemployment expected to rise Reuters - Fri Jul 3, 12:46 PM ET

    OTTAWA (Reuters) - The jobless rate in Canada and the United States will continue to rise, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Friday.

  • Job security key issue in Air Canada labor talks Reuters - Fri Jul 3, 2:41 PM ET

    OTTAWA (Reuters) - Air Canada's biggest union may push for additional job security in labor talks with the debt-heavy airline and a federally appointed mediator on Friday, but it doesn't expect a quick resolution.

Australia/Antarctica News

  • 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 AP - 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.

  • File photo shows joggers passing Woolloomooloo Bay near the Garden Island Naval Base in Sydney Harbour. The Australian navy is investigating allegations that male sailors ran a betting ring offering rewards for having sex with female colleagues, Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard said.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)
    Australian navy investigating sex bet allegations AFP - Sun Jul 5, 2:56 AM ET

    MELBOURNE (AFP) - The Australian navy is investigating allegations that male sailors ran a betting ring offering rewards for having sex with female colleagues, Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard said.

  • This Sydney Taronga Zoo handout image shows a CCTV frame of a new-born elephant calf (bottom centre) with its mother 'Thong Dee' at the zoo in the early hours of the morning. The male calf is the first to be born in Australia and was delivered after a three hour labour.(AFP/HO/Taronga Zoo)
    Australia welcomes its first new-born elephant AFP - Sat Jul 4, 2:17 AM ET

    SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia has welcomed the first elephant ever born in the country with the arrival of a 100-kilogram (220.4-pound) male calf at a Sydney zoo, according to keepers.

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  • Iranian students burn mock flags during a demonstration last month outside the British embassy in Tehran. Iran has freed a British-Greek journalist and police say have released most of the people detained in election protests but fresh challenges were made to the outcome of the presidential vote.(AFP/File/Maryam Hasanzadeh)
    Iran: British-Greek reporter held for weeks freed AP - 39 minutes ago

    TEHRAN, Iran - Iran has released a British-Greek journalist held for more than two weeks since demonstrations erupted following disputed presidential elections, Iran's state television reported Sunday.

  • Ahmad Janetti -- the head of Iran's Guardian Council -- delivers a speech to worshippers at Tehran University on July 3. Iran has freed a British-Greek journalist and police say have released most of the people detained in election protests but fresh challenges were made to the outcome of the presidential vote.(AFP/File/Behrouz Mehri)
    Pro-reform clerical body protests Iran elections AFP - Sun Jul 5, 8:54 AM ET

    TEHRAN (AFP) - A pro-reform clerical group protested against the official results of Iran's June 12 presidential election, in a statement made available to AFP.

  • A women cries during a march in the town center of Marseille, France, to remember the victims of Tuesday's Yemenia Airways plane crash off the Comoros Islands, Saturday July 4, 2009. Many in the Comoran community in France are angry that it took Tuesday's accident, which killed 152 people on Yemenia airlines' Paris-Moroni flight, to focus attention on the Yemeni airline's problems. They say that since 2004 they have been complaining about dangerous planes, unhelpful crews and stopovers in the Yemeni capital of San'a that last hours or days in stifling heat with little information and few basic services from the Yemeni airline. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)
    French: Sub hears signal from Yemenia black boxes AP - Sun Jul 5, 8:38 AM ET

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