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ouster stories: 6 news summaries

Chavez: Ousted Prez Back to Honduras 'in Hours'

Venezuelan prez pledges support for Zelaya

Jul 17, 09 1:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya will return to the country “in the coming hours,” Hugo Chavez says. “We're behind him, we have to support him,” the Venezuelan leader said ahead of crisis talks hosted by Costa Rica’s president this weekend, Reuters reports. “This is... More »

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prime minister • Honduras • Hugo Chávez • ouster • coup d'etat • Manuel Zelaya

OAS Boots Honduras Over Prez's Ouster

New gov't blows off Saturday deadline to reinstate Zelaya

Jul 5, 09 9:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Honduras has been suspended from the Organization of American States for refusing to reinstate its ousted president, CNN reports. The OAS had given the country’s new leaders until yesterday to hand power back to Jose Manuel Zelaya. Meanwhile, thousands held an airport demonstration to support Zelaya, who says he’... More »

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president • suspension • Honduras • Organization of American States • ouster • coup d'etat • Manuel Zelaya

OPINION

The White House May Be Trying
to Purge Pelosi

Kristol: Why else would CIA boss 'humiliate' his party's speaker?

May 18, 09 12:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - After Nancy Pelosi suggested the CIA had misled Congress, the agency’s director fired back with a letter denying the claim. But the idea that Leon Panetta would send a letter “humiliating a House speaker of his own party” entirely of his own accord seems “almost inconceivable,”... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • CIA • torture • Rahm Emanuel • speaker of the House • Leon Panetta • ouster • Obama administration • President Obama • CIA director

analysis

 Sacked Commander Wrong 
 for New Afghan Strategy 

McKiernan's approach in Afghanistan too 'conventional,' officials say

May 12, 09 8:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - David McKiernan was dumped as top American commander in Afghanistan yesterday, after less than a year, because his approach was too “conventional,” Pentagon officials tell the New York Times. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said “fresh eyes were needed” and “a new approach was probably in our... More »

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Afghanistan • military strategy • Afghanistan war • ouster • David McKiernan • Stanley McChrystal

Detroit Mayor's Job on Line
in Hearing Today

Kilpatrick loses appeal to block fallout from love affair

Sep 3, 08 1:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - A state hearing to determine if Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will be booted from office is back on the schedule today after the mayor lost an appeal to block it. Kilpatrick’s lawyer had argued that the hearing established Michigan's governor as "judge, jury and executioner," reports the... More »

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Detroit • appeal • Jennifer Granholm • Kwame Kilpatrick • ouster • criminal charges

Nuke Blunder Last Straw for Booted Air Force Brass

Secretary Wynne, chief of staff Moseley long at odds with Pentagon

Jun 5, 08 3:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Secretary of the Air Force and the service's chief of staff were forced to resign today on the heels of a report highly critical of the handling of nuclear weapons and technology, the Air Force Times reports. More »

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nuclear weapons • US government • US Air Force • nuclear arsenal • bureaucratic blunders • B-52s • T. Michael Moseley • Michael W. Wynne • ouster

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