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COUP leaders in Honduras have vowed that ousted President Manuel Zelaya will "never return to power" despite mounting international pressure and an ultimatum by the Organisation of American States.

Mr Pinho said he regretted his act during a tense state-of-the-nation debate, though he said he was responding to an insult from the lawmaker.

Gordon Brown will receive advice about what to do in the event of an earthquake during the G8 summit in Italy next week.

PRAGUE a ' The 44th International Film Festival opened Friday in the Czech Republic with a week of events planned, including an award for French actress Isabelle Huppert and a world premiere by Milos Forman.

Doctors have determined that John Demjanjuk is fit to stand trial on charges that he was an accessory to murder at a Nazi death camp, prosecutors said Friday.

TEHRAN: Iranian hardliners pressed yesterday for legal action against moderate leaders accused of inciting post-election turmoil that has dimmed Western hopes of engaging Tehran on its disputed nuclear programme.

Spain's intelligence chief resigned Thursday amid allegations he used government money to go on hunting and fishing trips and had staffers remodel his house.

A reality TV show contestant says that he posed as the boyfriend of Noemi Letizia, the aspiring model from Naples, after Silvio Berlusconi attended her 18th birthday party in April.

Italian officials say the death toll from a train explosion in Tuscany has risen to 19, with 25 people injured.

Germany's leader says Israel must halt the construction of settlements, which she says threatens hopes for a two-state agreement with the Palestinians.

Now that the reality of Michael Jackson's death has sunk in, some Londoners are assessing the economic impact of his sudden departure - and they don't like what they see.

Sweden on Wednesday took over the rotating presidency of the European Union for the second time since it joined the bloc in 1995.

Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi attends a business meeting in Naples, Tuesday, June 30 , 2009.

Published by Jon Land for 24dash.com in Communities , Central Government Tuesday 30th June 2009 - 4:05pm Home Secretary: ID cards will never be compulsory for British citizens British citizens will never be forced to carry ID cards, Home Secretary Alan Johnson said today.

Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader has resigned, saying he has decided to withdraw from politics after 20 years.

SIRTE, Libya Iran's president canceled a last-minute call to attend an African Union summit in Libya on Wednesday amid a stir among African delegates, who complained the contentious Iranian leader would divert the conference's attention from Africa's pressing problems.

A former CIA agent on trial for the alleged kidnapping of a Muslim cleric and terror suspect in Milan acknowledged in an interview published Tuesday that he had a role in the operation but insisted he was only following orders.

An ailing American lawyer who was imprisoned in Belarus last year on charges of using fake documents and attempted industrial espionage walked free Tuesday night after a presidential pardon.

LONDON -- The latest financial statements from Britain's royal family suggest that the next British institution needing a taxpayer bailout could well be the monarch herself.

Germany's Constitutional Court ruled that the EU's Lisbon Treaty needed extra national legislation and suspended its ratification.