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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Assailants fired an anti-tank grenade toward the building housing ballots for the upcoming Honduran presidential elections, which are taking place under the shadow of a four-month crisis caused by a coup, police said Friday. The grenade overshot the target, exploding 550 yards (500 meters) from the building in the capital of Tegucigalpa, police spokesman Orlin Cerrato said. Residents in several neighborhoods heard the explosion Thursday night, but there were no damages. Police believe the building housing election material was the intended target because the surrounding buildings are mostly residential. They said the Russian-made, rocket-propelled grenade was likely...

Porfirio Lobo, Honduras president elect, said on Sunday he is committed to enable ousted president Manuel Zelaya to leave the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, where he remains under refuge following a frustrated attempt last week. Honduras now made it clear what it will accept: "It was decided at the highest level of government: it will be a territorial asylum and he may not go to any nation which borders Honduras, ie that is in Central America," said the Foreign Ministry spokesman, Milton Mateo. According to the Honduran government, Zelaya will not be allowed to travel to Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua...

The political crisis in Honduras appears to be closer to a resolution after negotiators reached a deal. However few details are known of the deal which has yet to be approved by ousted President Manuel Zelaya and interim President Roberto Micheletti. Mr Zelaya was sent into exile in June, but has been inside Brazil's embassy since secretly returning in September. He wants to be reinstated before 29 November elections, but the interim leaders have resisted his demands. They say he was legally removed from office as he had violated the Honduran constitution. Mr Zelaya's lead negotiator Victor Meza said the...