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Honduran Political Crisis »
THE FACTS: On June 28, 2009, the Honduran armed forces deposed President Manuel Zelaya and forced him to leave the country. The Honduran Supreme Court said that it had ordered the removal of Zelaya, after it had ruled illegal a referendum on changing the constitution that he had been pushing for. Zelaya was intending to [...]
Obama’s Trip To Russia »
THE FACTS: US President Barack Obama will travel to Moscow in early July to talk politics with the Russian heads of state. It will be Mr Obama’s third overseas visit of that nature since taking office. It is expected that discussions about nuclear weapons will head the agenda; Russia has been pivotal in allowing Iran [...]
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict »
THE FACTS Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has endorsed for the first time a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict in a speech on June 14. Mr Netanyahu attached the conditions that the Palestinian state would have to be demilitarised and that the Palestinian people would have to recognise Israel as a state. The Palestinian [...]
Iranian Election »
THE FACTS On June 12, 2009, Iran will hold a general election to determine its next president. The incumbent president is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and his two main challengers are former Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi and the reformist candidate Mehdi Karroubi. The presidential race has been marred by personal slurs, which have been chiefly cast by [...]
European Parliament Elections »
THE FACTS The European Parliament is a powerful legislature that is the directly elected parliamentary body of the European Union (EU). Between June 4 and June 7, 2009, elections to the European Parliament were held to elect 736 members who would in turn represent 500 million Europeans. The results have generally been viewed as a [...]