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When the U.S. last week finally brokered a deal between ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and the man who replaced him following the June 28 coup, de facto President Roberto Micheletti, observers wondered how the Obama Administration had won...
Nov 4 2009
Air raids may no longer target the highlands of central Sudan, but heads still turn sharply to scan the skies at the sound of an aeroplane engine overhead. The Nuba Mountains — once a key enclave of rebels battling the government in Khartoum...
Oct 28 2009
He’s crossed swords, over the years, with all the usual right-wing suspects, from car-makers to gun owners to Wall Street executives, health companies, and George W Bush. Now Michael Moore has picked a fight with a hero of the international...
Oct 20 2009
Officials from the Miss California pageant are sending a message to Carrie Prejean — three can play that game! The production company that runs the pageant is filing a cross complaint against Prejean, demanding, among other things, that Carrie...
Oct 9 2009
Densely clouded in acid-laden mist, Venus used to be the Soviet Union’s favourite target for planetary exploration. Now, after a lull of almost three decades, Russia is making plans for a new mission to the “morning star” and has...
Oct 9 2009
As a boy, he pictured himself one day strapped into the cockpit of an F-14 fighter jet, screaming above the clouds like those daring young pilots in the 1980s movie Top Gun. In high school, the teenager shared his lifelong dream with military...
Oct 7 2009
Obama’s White House session Wednesday comes eight years after the war started and amid new poll statistics showing that support for the conflict in this country is waning. Obama, who inherited the war when he took office last January, is...
Oct 2 2009
Michael Jackson was a “fairly healthy” 50-year-old on 24 June 2009, according to an autopsy report obtained by the Associated Press. The next day, he was dead – due to the anaesthetics administered by his doctor. The previously unreleased...
Sep 30 2009
A senior American diplomat has held unannounced, high-level talks in Havana with the Cuban government, three State Department officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday, raising hopes for a thaw in long-icy relations. The talks were the first of...
Sep 30 2009
As part of the Huffington Post’s efforts to bear witness to the effects of the current economic environment on ordinary Americans, we’re rounding up some of the most compelling stories reported by local news organizations around the...