"I am the commander of the armed forces, elected by the people, and I ask the armed forces to comply with the order to open the airport so that there is no problem in landing and embracing my people." _ Ousted President Manuel Zelaya on attempting to return by plane to Honduras. Military vehicles blocked the runway and his plane was diverted to El Salvador.

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"It's not, in our view, a zero-sum game, that if it's two points for Russia it's negative two for us, but there are ways that we can cooperate to advance our interests and, at the same time, do things with the Russians that are good for them as well." _ President Barack Obama's top assistant on Russia, Michael McFaul, said in a briefing before a summit between Obama and President Dmitry Medvedev.

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"This is a very dark day in the history of the Uighur people." _ Alim Seytoff, vice president of the Uyghur American Association, on violence in western China between ethnic Muslims known as Uighurs and China's Han majority that killed 140 people and injured 828.