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

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:14:36 -0400

Ousted President Manuel Zelaya was kept from landing at the main Honduras airport Sunday because the runway was blocked by military vehicles and groups of soldiers, some of them clashing with a crowd of thousands outside.

Muslim minority riots erupt in China's west

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:48:05 -0400

Nearly 1,000 protesters from a Muslim ethnic group rioted in China's far west, overturning barricades, attacking bystanders and clashing with police in violence that killed an unknown number of people, including a policeman, state media and witnesses said.

Iran: British-Greek reporter held for weeks freed

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:59:23 -0400

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.

Obama backs Medvedev's judicial reforms

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:26:58 -0400

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.

Zimbabwe vows to pull troops out of diamond fields

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:07:28 -0400

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.

3 British soldiers killed in southern Afghanistan

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:03:44 -0400

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.

Iraqis skeptical about significance of US pullback

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:32:32 -0400

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.

From Haiti, a surprise: good news about AIDS

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:08:16 -0400

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

Submarine detects signal from Yemenia black boxes

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:29:40 -0400

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.

Somali fighting kills at least 12 in Mogadishu

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 08:55:21 -0400

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.