Dalai Lama “If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them. ”
Barack Obama “Those who stand up for justice are always on the right side of history.”
UNITED NATIONS (CNN) — The president of the U.N. General Assembly scheduled a noon session Monday to discuss the situation in Honduras, following a military-led coup that ousted the sitting president.
Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann called the Honduran military’s intervention a “criminal action” and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a statement condemned the removal of [...]
The newly sworn-in acting president of Honduras has imposed a two-day nationwide curfew following a military coup that sent Manuel Zelaya, the president, into exile.
Roberto Micheletti, the former parliamentary speaker who was sworn in as Zelaya’s replacement on Sunday, told a news conference that the curfew would run from 9pm (03:00 GMT) that day until 6am on [...]
One of the founders of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, who’s also a former deputy prime minister, tells Weekend Edition’s Scott Simon that what amounts to a “military coup” has occurred in his country. And he claims authorities know the election was rigged.
According to Mohsen Sazegara:
Right after the election, 11 o’clock at night, was a military coup [...]
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