The president of the U.N. General Assembly scheduled a noon session Monday to discuss the situation in Honduras, following a military-led coup that ousted the sitting president. Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann called the Honduran military's intervention a "criminal action" and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a statement condemned the removal of "the constitutional president." Hours after President Jose Manuel Zelaya was deposed Sunday, Roberto Micheletti was sworn in. But the former president was not ready to give up his powers. The ...

It would be tempting for Washington to dismiss Sunday morning's military overthrow of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya as just a minor banana-republic convulsion. But the Obama Administration doesn't have that luxury. Zelaya is a member of the left-wing club of Latin American leaders — and its honcho, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, has already deemed this a hemispheric crisis that will challenge the new north-south bonhomie Obama established two months ago at the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad. Less ...

A powerful earthquake, with a magnitude of 7.1, was reported off the coast of Honduras early Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.