ALL CHANGE: Manuel Zelaya’s overthrow was triggered by a standoff between the president and the military and legal institutions over his bid to secure a second term
Honduran interim leader Roberto Micheletti imposed a nationwide 48-hour curfew after the army ousted elected President Manuel Zelaya and sent him into exile.

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By Jenny W. hsu
Ties between Taiwan and Honduras will not be affected despite the last-minute cancelation of President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) scheduled trip to the nation’s Central American ally, the Presidential Office said yesterday.

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By Shih Hsiu-chuan and Rich Chang
The Executive Yuan yesterday approved the merger of Tainan County and Tainan City as a single municipality with the Cabinet saying this would drive the development of Chiayi County and Yunlin County.

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Iran said yesterday five of the nine detained local staff at the British embassy in Tehran had been released while the other four were being held for questioning, state television reported.

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US District Judge Denny Chin yesterday said the federal probation department had recommended that disgraced financier Bernard Madoff get 50 years in prison for a multibillion-dollar fraud scheme.

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