Jun 29th, 2009 - Times Online
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Shots were fired near the presidential palace in Honduras where protests erupted after the army ousted and exiled leftist President Manuel Zelaya on Sunday in Central America's first military coup since the Cold War.
At dawn troops had roused Mr Zelaya in his pyjamas and flew him out of the country, ending a bitter power struggle with the military as parliament swiftly voted in a new leader.
Later undreds of pro-Zelaya protesters, some masked and wielding sticks, set up barricades of chain link fences and downed billboards in the center of the capital, Tegucigalpa, and blocked roads to the presidential palace.
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