A top aide to ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said negotiations to solve the country's three-month old political crisis are once again at an impasse.

Honduras' interim leaders put in place new rules that threaten broadcasters with closure for airing reports that "attack national security", further restricting media freedom following the closure of two opposition stations.

Diplomats pushed the two sides of the Honduran political conflict into direct talks for the first time in nearly three months, but left the country with no commitment from the coup-installed government to reinstate ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

The interim Honduran government revoked an emergency decree that prohibited large street protests and limited other civil liberties following the return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

Honduras’ coup-installed president told a US congressional delegation that full civil liberties would be restored within days, a spokesman for one of the politicians said.

Honduras’ interim government is cracking down on civil rights in response to ousted President Manuel Zelaya’s calls for rebellion.

Honduras’ interim leader said he won’t meet face-to-face with ousted President Manuel Zelaya, but said Mr Zelaya could leave the foreign embassy where he is holed up if a country grants him political asylum.

Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said he has met an interim government official and begun dialogue aimed at ending the country’s protracted political crisis.

Hungry Hondurans scrambled through looted shops and lined up for food during a break in a long curfew called to halt violence that erupted with the return of the country’s deposed leftist president.

Brazil’s government asked the United Nations Security Council to convene an emergency meeting over a standoff in Honduras with the nation’s deposed president taking refuge in the Brazilian Embassy.

Honduras’ top court has ruled that ousted President Manuel Zelaya will face trial if he returns to the Central American country.

The US military said its troops in Honduras did not know of and played no role in a flight that took ousted President Manuel Zelaya to exile during a military coup.

Two dozen supporters of Honduras’ ousted president were charged with sedition in an intensifying crackdown on protests against the coup-installed government.

Supporters of ousted President Manuel Zelaya clashed with police in the Honduran capital and some of them attacked the second-ranking member of Congress.

Honduras’ interim government reinstated a nighttime curfew for the capital after thousands of anti-coup protesters marched into Tegucigalpa to demand the return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

Supporters of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya charged that the interim government delayed the arrival of a mission from the Organisation of American States to keep diplomats from seeing protests supporting the exiled leader.

Honduras’ interim president Roberto Micheletti said the country was embarking on a new effort to overcome diplomatic isolation after the June 28 coup.

Deposed President Manuel Zelaya returned to the Honduran border and announced he would set up camp there, despite calls from foreign leaders urging him not to force a confrontation with the government that ousted him.

President Manuel Zelaya returned to the Honduran border today and announced he would set up camp there, despite foreign leaders urging him not to force a confrontation with the government in power since last month’s coup.

Talks on resolving Honduras’ leadership crisis broke off after the interim government rejected a proposed compromise, saying a provision calling for ousted President Manuel Zelaya to serve out his term was “unacceptable”.

Costa Rican President Oscar Arias said both sides in the talks to resolve the coup in Honduras have agreed to resume talks later today, but they remain far apart.

Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said he will give negotiators until the end of today to reach an agreement that would restore him to power.

A top aide said exiled Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was heading home today to set up an alternative seat of government inside the country, and will use it as his headquarters in a “final battle” against the coup leaders.

Honduras’ interim leader said he is willing to step down if it helps end his country’s political crisis but only if ousted President Manuel Zelaya isn’t allowed to regain power.

Ousted President Manuel Zelaya, clearly frustrated with stalled negotiations aimed at resolving the political crisis in Honduras, has today issued an ultimatum to the interim government: Reinstate me, or else.

Honduran authorities lifted a curfew imposed since the ousting of President Manuel Zelaya two weeks ago, in a sign the interim government is trying to restore normality to life in the crisis-gripped country.

Supporters of President Manuel Zelaya vowed to widen protests and block trade as Honduras’ deposed leader headed to Washington for a meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

The head of the Organisation of American States said he found no willingness in Honduras’ interim government to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

A top diplomat said he is heading to Honduras to demand the return of the president toppled at gunpoint – a mission he said is likely to meet rejection, bringing diplomatic and economic punishment for the impoverished Central American nation.

Thousands of Hondurans demonstrated for the return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya, who vowed to fly home this weekend despite a warrant for his arrest.

Police and soldiers clashed with thousands of protesters outside Honduras’ national palace, leaving at least 45 people injured, as world leaders from Barack Obama to Hugo Chavez demanded the return of a president ousted in a military coup.

HONDURAS’ new leaders defied growing global pressure yesterday to reverse a military coup, arguing that they had followed their constitution in removing a leftist president who attacked it.

A military coup has divided Honduras between two leaders – one recognised by world bodies and another backed by the country’s congress, courts and military.

Soldiers ousted the democratically elected president of Honduras yesterday and Congress named a successor, but the leftist ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez denounced what he called an illegal coup and vowed to stay in power.

THE Honduran Congress has named its leader to replace President Manuel Zelaya, following his military ouster and forced exile in Costa Rica.

The Organisation of American States lifted a decades-old ban on Cuba’s participation in the group and cleared the way for the island’s return despite initial US objections.

Felix slammed into Central America’s remote Miskito coastline and Henriette slammed into resorts on the tip of Baja California as a record-setting hurricane season got even wilder with twin storms making landfall on the same day.