Honduran MPs must wait until Tuesday to consider a US-brokered agreement that could return deposed president Manuel Zelaya to power, despite diplomats’ pleas not to delay an end to the country’s four-month-old political crisis.

Representatives of ousted president Manuel Zelaya finally reached an agreement with the interim government that could help end the dispute over Honduras’ June 28 coup, and possibly pave the way for Mr Zelaya’s reinstatement.

Negotiators trying to resolve the Honduran political crisis said talks have broken off, the third such announcement in the past week.

Opposition radio and television stations in Honduras were back on the air after the government lifted a three-week broadcast ban.

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’ 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.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said the ousted Honduran president sneaked back to his country with the help of Honduran military personnel.

Dozens of supporters abandoned former Honduras president Manuel Zelaya to an increasingly isolated embassy in the country’s capital today as the stand-off over his return continued.

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 was sealed off from the world today after its deposed president made a dramatic return that sparked off street riots.

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.

A top aide to Honduras’ ousted president accused the United States of involvement in the coup, saying that the plane that flew Manuel Zelaya into exile stopped to refuel at an airfield where hundreds of US troops are based.

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.

Encamped in the mountains near Honduras, ousted president Manuel Zelaya has struggled to galvanise poor farmers, teachers and street activists into a movement strong enough to overcome his powerful foes and sweep him back into office.

DEFYING US criticism, ousted president Manuel Zelaya returned for a second day to Honduras’s land border to try to put pressure on the coup leaders who threw him out of the country last month.

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.

Ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya took a symbolic step into his homeland, vowing to reclaim his post a month after soldiers flew him into exile.

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 said the Honduran people “have the right to insurrection” against the interim government that forced him out of the country.

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.

Ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya was kept from landing at the country's main airport today because the runway was blocked by military vehicles and groups of soldiers, some of them clashing with a crowd of thousands outside.

Ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya, travelling aboard a Venezuelan plane, was prevented from landing at the country's main airport today as soldiers are blocked the runway with several military vehicles.

The OAS suspended Honduras’ participation in the organisation because of last week’s military coup.

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.