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The Honduran army ousted President Manuel Zelaya and threw him out of the country today in Central America's first military coup since the Cold War after he upset the army by trying to win re-election.

The Honduran Supreme Court said it had ordered the army to oust Mr Zelaya today because of his unlawful plan to hold a public vote on presidential re-election.