Tegucigalpa, Honduras News Archives

A PASSENGER plane overshot a runway and hit a busy street in the Honduran capital, killing the pilot, two passengers and a motorist on the ground.

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Firefighters spray foam on the site of a commercial airliner crash in the city of Tegucigalpa yesterday.

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ELECTIONS WASHINGTON _ Barack Obama looks poised to win the Democratic presidential nomination, but the national party still faces the daunting task of dealing with two states stripped of their delegates and ...

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PLANE CRASH: Rescue workers attend the scene where a passenger plane skidded off a runway at Tegucigalpa airport in Honduras, killing five people.

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A Grupo TACA airplane overshot a runway and slammed to a stop on a city street Friday in the Honduran capital, leaving at least one passenger dead and injuring several others.

Television images showed the plane's fuselage was buckled and the cockpit smashed under a billboard. Firefighters hosed down at least two cars trapped under its left engine.

Ambulances rushed to the scene, and a large crowd of onlookers surrounded rescue efforts.

"We landed ... and suddenly I heard a really strong, loud impact," passenger Roberto Sosa, 34, told The Associated Press.

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Tegucigalpa, May 28 Central America and Caribbean presidents are to analyze Wednesday in the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula the region's vulnerability faced with the effects of climate change and consequences ...

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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras : A Honduran legislator says one of his colleagues has been electrocuted while making repairs on his ranch.

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Mr. Mario Garza, the International Monetary Fund resident representative in Honduras, issued the following statement yesterday in Tegucigalpa: "The IMF mission that visited Honduras during May 13-21, 2008 ...

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NEW YORK - Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, one of Latin America's outspoken Catholic human rights leaders, yesterday told graduates of the College of New Rochelle that their faith and education ...

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A comatose Honduran woman won't be medically evacuated to her native country against the wishes of her family.

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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras : A military tribunal has sentenced two Honduran soldiers to 18 years in prison each for killing six fellow soldiers in 2006. via International Herald Tribune

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Honduran Technical Cooperation Secretariat representative Karen Zelaya expressed Thursday in Havana the great satisfaction for the progress of the agreements established with Cuba. via Inside Costa Rica

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Eugenia Martinez de Otero, 80, a longtime resident of Vineland, went home to be with the Lord on Tuesday, May 13, 2008. via Daily Journal

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Med. Biol. 53 2971-2983 doi: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/11/014 Manuel Rodriguez 1,2 and Robert Jeraj 1,3 1 Department of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1530 MSC, 1300 University Ave, Madison, WI ... via Physics in Medicine and Biology lates...

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“I'm hoping to find a place in Honduras to exhibit it”

Honduran artist works with Columbus Junction students, residents on piece to be hung for one day. via Hawk Eye

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A Honduran cardinal has denounced the US plans for construction of a wall along the country's border with Mexico. via Catholic World News

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“He's a champion of social justice and human rights and is a founder of the Catholic University of Honduras”

By Carmen Duarte Cardinal Oscar Andr ©s Rodr guez Maradiaga, the archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, will be a keynote speaker at a conference today at the Tucson Expo Center. via Tucson Region

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“Churches, businesses, the medical community all can help. We're always looking for people who are willing to come and work”

When one person has a dream, there is potential. When two people share the same dream, the possibilities are endless. via Star-Gazette

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TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - At least 17 inmates died in a riot at a Honduran prison, the second such incident in the country's overcrowded jail system in just over a week.

Security Ministry spokesman Hector Ivan Mejia told Reuters on Saturday police eventually took control of the National Penitentiary facility, Honduras' main prison, after the riot broke out on Friday.

Last Saturday, nine prisoners were killed with machetes and knives during a riot at another prison in the northern city of San Pedro Sula. Read more

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A Honduran police official says at least 18 inmates have died in a prison attack. via Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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The president of the international Catholic relief organization Caritas International has called for an immediate and complete embargo on arms shipments to Zimbabwe. via Catholic World News

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“It's an excellent opportunity to show some of our partner nations' militaries what we do and what we can do to help them.”

A paratrooper leaps from the back of a Joint Task Force-Bravo CH-47 Chinook helicopter over the Tamara Drop Zone, the site of this year's Iguana Voladora 2008. via The United States Army

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