...Nov. 29 election and until at least Dec. 2, when Congress is scheduled to vote on whether to reinstate ousted President Manuel Zelaya. Micheletti did not say who would be in charge of the government if he takes the weeklong leave of...

In this article: Roberto Micheletti, Manuel Zelaya, Honduras, Tegucigalpa, Costa Rica, and U.S.

...international legitimacy. Micheletti hopes the polls will put an end to a political crisis set off by the June 28 ouster of President Manuel Zelaya , which has isolated the Central American nation. Micheletti said he expected to be absent...

In this article: Roberto Micheletti, Manuel Zelaya, Honduras, United States, Supreme Court, Argentina, Venezuela, Panama, and Brazil

Honduras ' de facto leader Roberto Micheletti said Thursday that he planned to step down briefly during November 29 elections in an apparent bid to boost its international legitimacy. Micheletti hopes the polls will put an end to a...

In this article: Roberto Micheletti, Manuel Zelaya, Honduras, United States, Supreme Court, Argentina, Venezuela, Panama, and Brazil

KABUL --President Hamid Karzai was sworn in for a second term on Thursday morning in a ceremony in which he made peace and reconciliation his top priority and said he wanted Afghans to assume control of their own security by the end of his...

In this article: Hamid Karzai, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Asif Ali Zardari, Afghanistan, Kabul, Taliban, and Suicide

In this article: Hamid Karzai, Abdullah Abdullah, Taliban, Kabul, Pakistan, U.N., Washington, Suicide, and Taliban insurgency

The premiere of a new movie about the early life of Brazil 's phenomenally popular president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva , left an audience in tears -- and some critics on Wednesday predicting Oscar glory. " Lula , O Filho do Brasil " ( Lula ,...

In this article: Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil, Fabio Barreto, Marisa Leticia, and Dilma Rousseff

By Dave Graham Chancellor Angela Merkel's most striking problem at the start of her new government is not the economy, an unpopular war or the opposition: it's a 66-year-old, 6-foot blonde in her own Christian Democrats , Erika...

In this article: Erika Steinbach, Angela Merkel, Poland, Germany, CDU, FDP, Richard Williamson, World War Two, and Luftwaffe

...ally, a proxy who could substitute for him. His first choice was Brazil , but Lula [Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ] has at times defended Chavez , for mostly economic reasons. All the big public works in Venezuela , the Caracas...

In this article: Hugo Chavez, Colombia, Caracas, Latin America, Barack Obama, Venezuela, U.S., and Inflation

...to Brazil and Venezuela. The Iranian leader's call for Israel 's annihilation hasn't stopped Chavez and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from asserting their own strategic interests in close ties with Iran , which Israel...

In this article: Hugo Chavez, Shimon Peres, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Israel, Venezuela, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Latin America, Middle East, Argentina, and Brazil

...make their leaders disappear before too long. Speaking at a forum in Argentina Tuesday, Peres said both Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have gone crazy over oil, which he says is not bad to sell but "really dangerous if you swallow...

In this article: Shimon Peres, Hugo Chavez, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Venezuela, Israel, Argentina, Associated Press Writer, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and Iran

...world leaders there, including French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown -- although whether American President Barack Obama will attend is as yet unclear. The Outlook for Copenhagen Has Always Been Gloomy

In this article: Copenhagen, Angela Merkel, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, Climate change, Barack Obama, United Nations, Kyoto Protocol, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, and Bonn

MILAN -- The trial of Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi on a tax fraud charge reopened Monday after a year, but was immediately adjourned until January to allow the premier to attend. The premier was busy with a global food summit in Rome...

In this article: Silvio Berlusconi, Defendant, Mediaset, Tax, Milan, Italy, Rome, and U.S.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has won a delay in the resumption of his trial on tax fraud to Jan. 18 because of pressing state business. Judges agreed on Monday to the expected request by Berlusconi's lawyers for a postponement,...

In this article: Silvio Berlusconi, Tax, and Italy

...for not turning up at the resumption of a trial in which he is accused of corruption. Published: 8:46PM GMT 15 Nov 2009 Silvio Berlusconi will use the start of a global food security summit in Rome on Monday as a pretext for not...

In this article: Silvio Berlusconi, Allegation, Tax, Rome, Food and Agricultural Organisation, Bankruptcy, The Catholic Church, Mediaset, and People of Freedom

...banner reading, "We don't want Colombia to be the Israel of Latin America." One woman carried a sign picturing U.S. President Barack Obama beneath the words, " Imperialism with a mask of hope." Chavez likened the U.S. military to the fictional...

In this article: Hugo Chavez, U.S., Colombia, Venezuela, Imperialism, 007, James Bond, Barack Obama, Latin America, and Washington

Angela Merkel , the German Chancellor, has the gift of making Germany seem routine, and worthy of little apprehension Angela Merkel's studied ordinariness hides a ruthless and effective politician Photo: AP When the Berlin Wall came down,...

In this article: Angela Merkel, Guido Westerwelle, Edmund Stoiber, Europe, Germany, Gordon Brown, Social Democrat, Lutheran, and Ideology

...we have a specific problem between two countries, the pact must involve those two countries," Marco Aurelio Garcia , President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's foreign affairs adviser, told journalists in Brasilia. The Charlotte Observer...

In this article: Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, Colombia, Caracas, Brasilia, U.N. Security Council, and Mark Twain

...on Armistice Day France and Germany pledged themselves to renewed partnership at the core of the European Union yesterday as Chancellor Angela Merkel became the first German leader to mark Armistice Day with the French. President Sarkozy...

In this article: Angela Merkel, Armistice Day, European Union, Berlin, Germany, Gordon Brown, Helmut Kohl, Arc de Triomphe, and France