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Honduras de facto leader says will step aside

Reuters - 1 hour 32 mins ago

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduras's post-coup de facto leader said on Friday he would give up his presidential duties for a week, a step Washington welcomed as a way to help ease a five-month-old political crisis. More »

Johnson's backs against All Black wall
AFP - 2 hours 4 mins ago
LONDON (AFP) - England manager Martin Johnson, extraordinarily appointed to his post last year without any previous coaching experience, likes to deflect criticism by saying everyone is entitled to an opinion. More »
Tories say would pull troops out of Germany
AFP - 6 hours 22 mins ago
LONDON (AFP) - Opposition Conservatives, tipped to win power in an election next year, said Saturday they would pull the country's 25,000 troops out of Germany as part of a reorganisation of NATO forces. More »
Kidnapped Britons warn Somali captors 'losing patience'
AFP - 8 hours 32 mins ago
LONDON (AFP) - A British couple held hostage by Somali pirates said in a video broadcast Friday their captors were "losing patience" and could kill them within a week if no ransom was paid. More »
Govt. probes transmission of drug-resistant swine flu
AFP - 9 hours 8 mins ago
LONDON (AFP) - Health authorities said Friday they are investigating what could be the world's first cases of person-to-person transmission of a strain of drug-resistant swine flu. More »
Britons warn Somali captors 'losing patience'
AFP - 9 hours 34 mins ago
LONDON (AFP) - A British couple held hostage by Somali pirates said in a video telecast Friday that their captors are "losing patience" and could kill them "within a week" if no ransom is paid. More »
U.S. urges Honduras de facto leader to step aside
Reuters - 11 hours 20 mins ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Honduras' de facto leader should make good on an offer to step aside for a week so voters can focus on November 29 polls and resolve the country's political crisis, the U.S. State Department said on Friday. More »
Policeman dies as floods trigger evacuation
AFP - Yesterday, 06:11 pm
COCKERMOUTH, England (AFP) - A policeman died after being swept away by "biblical" floods in the scenic Lake District, officials said Friday as helicopters helped evacuate hundreds of stranded residents. More »
Hutton 'not aware' of plot against Brown
Epolitix - Yesterday, 05:01 pm
Former defence secretary John Hutton has said he did not know there was a plot to try to force Gordon Brown out of Downing St last June. More »
Brown pays tribute to flood tragedy PC
ITN - Yesterday, 04:42 pm
Gordon Brown has paid tribute to the police constable swept away when a bridge collapsed in floods in Cumbria. More »