The World Today
Nicaragua
LAS MANOS - Deposed President Manuel Zelaya returned to the Honduran border yesterday and announced he would set up camp there, despite foreign leaders urging him not to force a confrontation with the government that ousted him in last month’s coup. Zelaya arrived at a rural frontier crossing and immediately grabbed a megaphone, shouting to a crowd of 100 supporters and about as many journalists. He vowed to wait there and demanded his family be allowed to meet him. “We are going to stand firm,’’ Zelaya told the crowd, complaining that the interim government has not allowed him to reunite with his family since he was exiled. (AP)England
Government urged to talk to Hamas
LONDON - Legislators urged the British government today to talk to moderates within Hamas, saying the West’s policy of shunning the Palestinian Islamist group was showing little sign of success. The British parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee said in a report that it stood by a recommendation it first made two years ago that the government should engage politically with moderate elements within Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip. Britain and other Western nations reject contact with Hamas because of its refusal to recognize Israel, renounce violence, and accept existing interim peace deals. (Reuters)MEXICO
4 suspects detained in US agent’s killing
MEXICO CITY - Mexican federal police said they detained four men yesterday near Tecate suspected of involvement in the killing of US Border Patrol Agent Robert Rosas. The suspects were allegedly part of an immigrant smuggling ring. (AP)
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