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Coup d'etat in Honduras Elicits International Condemnation

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Tom Loudon, Truthout: "A Popular Consultation about putting a national constitutional referendum on the ballot for the November elections had been scheduled in Honduras for today, sparking tensions between the president and other branches of the government. The simple, non-binding poll that President Zelaya was sponsoring would have asked the Honduran people their opinion on adding a referendum question to the next election ballot in November."


Thousands Demonstrate Silently in Tehran

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CNN: "Watched closely by police, several thousand protesters moved slowly down a major Tehran thoroughfare Sunday in the first demonstration over the country's disputed presidential election that authorities have allowed in days. About 5,000 people shuffled in silence down Tehran's Shariati Street to the Ghoba mosque, where two of the opposition candidates in the June 12 election were to appear to honor a slain hero of the 1979 Islamic revolution."

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