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U.S. official, Chile’s Lagos on panel

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – The U.S. secretary of labor and a former Chilean president were named Sunday to a commission tasked with monitoring the creation of a power-sharing government in Honduras, under a U.S.-brokered agreement to end the nation’s 4-month-old political crisis.

Jose Miguel Insulza, the secretary-general of the Organization of American States, said Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and ex-President Ricardo Lagos will arrive in the Central American country Tuesday, accompanied by high-level OAS officials.

The commission will monitor the creation of a truth commission assigned to investigate the coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya, who was ousted from power June 28.

Gitmo detainees set to get H1N1 vaccine

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Terrorism suspects held at the Guantanamo Bay naval base will soon get swine flu vaccines, despite complaints that American civilians should have priority, a military spokesman said Sunday.

Kirkuk at the heart
of Iraq law deadlock

BAGHDAD – Iraqi politicians have been turning up their rhetoric over Kirkuk, the oil-rich city that both Kurds in the north and Arabs in the south want to control.

The dispute has caused a deadlock over the country’s election law, threatening to delay Iraq’s nationwide elections set for mid-January.

Pakistani forces kill at least 7 militants

ISLAMABAD – Security forces fighting their way through a mountainous Taliban stronghold killed at least seven militants Sunday and injured several more, officials said, while Pakistan’s foreign minister said the offensive in tribal South Waziristan should finish sooner than originally expected.

– Wire reports

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