Opposing Honduran factions resume talks to end crisis prompted by coup

October 10th, 2009 Talks yield signs of hope on Honduras stalemateTEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Signs of progress have emerged from two days of talks and Honduras' rival factions plan to resume after a weekend break trying to resolve the bitter divide over the ouster of President Manuel Zelaya. The factions did not claim to have resolved the crisis sparked by the June 28 coup, although representatives of both negotiating teams insisted Friday that the first face-to-face talks in months had achieved results.

October 9th, 2009 Gains reported in Honduran talks to end stalemateTEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Rival factions in the bitter Honduran political stalemate emerged from negotiations Friday reporting substantial progress, although no agreement on restoring ousted President Manuel Zelaya. The two teams of negotiators ended four hours of private talks with representatives of both sides saying agreement had been reached on 60 percent of the issues covered under an international plan for resolving the crisis.

October 9th, 2009 More talks in Honduran crisis, but no deal sightedTEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Allies of the rival claimants to the Honduran presidency are continuing face-to-face talks on ending the paralyzing political standoff, after visiting diplomats failed to achieve a breakthrough. Three representatives of ousted President Manuel Zelaya and three representing the rival who replaced him in a coup, interim President Roberto Micheletti, will be ensconced in a hotel in the capital Friday for a second day discussing ways to end the crisis.

September 24th, 2009 Ousted Honduran president: 1st talks a failureTEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras' coup-installed government plans to block the arrival of a commission of foreign ministers heading to the country this weekend to help resolve the country's political standoff, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias said Friday. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate who moderated previous talks between Honduras' opposing factions said the government of interim President Roberto Micheletti has told the Organization of American States not to send the ministers because they will not be allowed into the country.

September 22nd, 2009 TEGUCIGALPA - Honduras interim President Roberto Micheletti has decided to set up a commission to begin discussion on ending the political standoff in the country after Manuel Zelaya was ousted from presidency in a military coup in June. Micheletti said the team will include representatives of the civil society and foreign diplomats.

August 23rd, 2009 Honduran top court: Ousted president to face trialTEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras' Supreme Court says ousted President Manuel Zelaya would face trial if he returns to the Central American country. The Honduran top court is giving its opinion on a plan to solve Honduras' political crisis after Zelaya was ousted in a coup.

August 15th, 2009 Firebombs hurled at Honduran newspaper officeTEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — A Honduran editor says assailants threw molotov cocktails at the offices of his newspaper, setting fire to the entrance. El Heraldo chief editor Fernando Berrio says security guards were the only ones in the building at the time.

July 19th, 2009 TEGUCIGALPA - The Honduran government led by Roberto Micheletti has rejected an immediate accord proposed by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias on the conditional reinstatement of ousted President Manuel Zelaya. As the second round of talks got under way here Saturday, Arias presented a seven-point proposal to defuse the Honduran crisis based on the central condition of reinstating Manuel Zelaya to the presidency, in a mediation that is racing against the clock to show some positive results.

July 14th, 2009 Honduran teachers return to class amid crisisTEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Tens of thousands of Honduran teachers and students returned to class Monday as the interim government seeks to return life to normal despite the unresolved crisis over the nation's ousted president. Interim President Roberto Micheletti said a Honduran negotiating team could return to the bargaining table as early as this weekend to try to end the stalemate caused by the June 28 coup that toppled leftist President Manuel Zelaya.

July 14th, 2009 Talks to end Honduras' crisis to resume SaturdayTEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — The chief mediator in talks to end Honduras' political crisis on Tuesday called both sides back to the table, a day after the ousted leader gave the interim government an ultimatum to reinstate him. Costa Rican President Oscar Arias said talks will resume Saturday after two rounds of earlier negotiations failed to produce a breakthrough in the standoff over who is the legitimate leader of Honduras.

July 6th, 2009 MANAGUA - Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega Sunday denied an accusation from Honduras' post-coup government that Nicaraguan troops were massing on their shared border. "Brother Honduran soldiers, brother Honduran officials, I want to assure you, swearing before God and nation, that Nicaragua is not deploying troops towards Honduras and that we are not preparing any kind of attack on Honduran garrisons on the border," he told domestic radio.

July 1st, 2009 OAS gives 3-day deadline to Honduran coup leadersWASHINGTON — The Pentagon said Wednesday it has suspended joint military operations with Honduras to protest a coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya, a move that suggests the U.S. could further curtail dealings with the new Honduran government.

July 1st, 2009 Pentagon: Military cooperation on hold after coupWASHINGTON — The Pentagon says it has put cooperation with the Honduran military on hold. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman says the United States has "postponed" joint operations in light of last weekend's military coup against that country's president.

June 28th, 2009 Honduran president calls arrest a 'kidnapping'SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Honduran President Manuel Zelaya says soldiers rousted him out of bed, beat his body guards and arrested him in his pajamas in what he criticized as "a coup" and "a kidnapping." Zelaya told a local television station Sunday that he is at the airport in San Jose, capital of Costa Rica. He said he would not recognize any attempt to name a replacement for him following his detention earlier Sunday.

March 31st, 2009 GAZA/CAIRO - Representatives of rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah returned to Cairo Tuesday to resume talks on forming a national unity government, representatives of the groups said. Egyptian-mediated talks between Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah faction, which controls the West Bank, were scheduled to resume Tuesday, ahead of a broader meeting including more factions Wednesday.