Tegucigalpa, Honduras News

President Barack Obama and family are off for Moscow at the start of a week-long trip.

Honduran president says soldiers blocking runway at main airport, preventing landing.

Fireworks have been lighting the nighttime skies for the Fourth of July. The nation's biggest display is over New York's Hudson River capping a day that began with the reopening of the crown of the Statue of Liberty.

Honduran Constitutional President Manuel Zelaya, and Argentina President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

Ottawa singer Amanda Rheaume is in the safety of a hotel room in San Jose, Costa Rica, after escaping from the political turmoil in Honduras where she was supposed to play a Canada Day concert.

Micheletti, meanwhile, maintains that the Honduras military acted legall9 when i4 raided Zelaya's house amid gunfire and deported him, still in his nightshirt.

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At the close of the one of this week's nightly news broadcasts, Channel 21 news anchor Indira Raudales made a plea: ``We have a right to information! This can't be happening in the 21st century!'' If Raudales offered more details, viewers did not hear them: the screen briefly went to static.

The Rev. Dina van Klaveren of St. Andrewa TMs Episcopal Church blesses, from left, Lynne Quinn, Anna Quinn, 14, Lee Moore, 15, and Julia Cranska, 14, before their planned mission trip to Honduras June 21.

In this photo from the 2008 Mission Honduras trip, students from Gehlen Catholic dig a trench for pipes for a water system that was installed during the spring visit.

Supporters of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya lightA a flammable spray in front of the National Congress during a march through Tegucigalpa on Thursday.

A group of teenage girls on a trip to Honduras arrived safely back at Trudeau airport Thursday afternoon, tired and disappointed that their trip was cut short, yet exhilarated to have witnessed the region's first coup d'A©tat since the Cold War ended - " even if it was from inside their compound.

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Los Angeles police have asked the Drug Enforcement Administration for help in investigating Michael Jackson's drug usage.

An Iranian militia reportedly wants an investigation into what role opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi may have played in recent street protests.

Dragged from his bed in his pyjamas and sent into exile on Sunday, President Zelaya of Honduras is preparing to make a dramatic return to his country to confront those who ousted him.

The Obama administration said Wednesday it has suspended joint military operations with Honduras to protest a coup that forced President Manuel Zelaya into exile.

THE Honduras mess is going to heat up, not cool down. Will President Obama keep rooting for the side that rallies to the cry "Yanqui go home"? Obama threw his lot in with deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, who's seen throughout the region as a stooge of Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez.

It was business as usual Monday for hundreds of U.S. troops at two sites in Honduras, despite a military coup that ousted the nation's president and sent him to Costa Rica in his pajamas.

Sunday's military coup in Honduras is a reminder of democracy's shallow roots in much of Latin America, and it provides a major test of US and international influence in what was once the quintessential banana republic.

The White House said Monday that its goal is to see democratic order reestablished. But the US refrained from formally declaring Sunday's actions a "coup": a move that would require a cutoff of US aid.

Instead, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the US will work with the international community to see that Honduras returns "to the rule of law and constitutional order within a relatively short period of time."