While such an offer would fall short of the American demand that all building be halted, it shows that pressure from Washington may be having an effect.
President Obama on Sunday spoke out against a provision in the energy bill that would impose trade penalties on countries that do not accept global-warming pollution limits.
AP - Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff is due back in court today to hear his punishment for running a massive Ponzi scheme. Madoff's lawyer has asked a judge to give his 71-year-old client 12 years behind bars. Prosecutors plan to seek a 150-year prison term. Ten victims have sought permission to speak at Madoff's sentencing Monday in federal court in Manhattan. Madoff also is expected to speak.
AP - EDITOR'S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in Iran and official statements carried on Iranian media.
AP - A military coup has divided Honduras between two leaders — one recognized by world bodies and another backed by the country's congress, courts and military.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today called the death of Neda Agha-Soltan "suspicious" and urged the country's authorities to identify those responsible, Iran's Fars news agency reports. The 26-year-old's death has come to symbolize Iranian resistance to the government's official election results.
The Honduran Congress voted Sunday to strip President Jose Manuel Zelaya of his powers and named the president of the Congress, Roberto Micheletti, as provisional president. Zelaya was removed from his residence Sunday morning by military forces who transported him to Costa Rica.