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Sat 10 Oct 2009Ousted Honduran leader to regain power under US deal
COUP LEADERS in Honduras have accepted a US-brokered deal allowing the ousted president, Manuel Zelaya, to return to power and resolving Central America’s gravest political crisis since the cold war.
The de facto government led by Roberto Micheletti said it would sign an accord reinstating the leftist leader in a national unity government, raising hopes that a stand-off which has increased tension across the region will end without further bloodshed.
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