Honduras heads toward crisis over referendum TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Honduras' embattled leftist president, fighting for a chance to revamp the constitution, hurled insults at congressional leaders Friday after rejecting the Supreme Court's order to reinstate the military chief he had fired. Unexpected twists make 2008 an epochal year Washington - Here's the way the world looked last January: Hillary Rodham Clinton was a lock to win the Democratic nomination for president, and probably the election, too. The economy wasn't great, but it wasn't awful, either - many experts thought we'd avoid global recession. Meanwhile, Iraq seemed a lost case five years after the US invasion. And the price of gas? Hoo boy. It had passed $3 a gallon and was galloping upward, no limit in sight. Russian warships causing no ripples in Pentagon WASHINGTON - Russian warships have been plying the waters off Venezuela and Panama in recent weeks and are now heading for Cuba, but U.S. officials are not so much wringing their hands as yawning.
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