In Mexico, officials have opened an investigation into a gas explosion that ripped though an infant and maternity hospital. In Honduras, both the ruling national party and the opposition libre party have announced they will begin collecting signatures for two separate plebiscites. The U.S. will not provide any compensation for it's blockade of Cuba nor relinquish control of Guantanamo Bay. In the U.K., members of the stop the war coalition protested outside parliament in London. In Iraq, parliament has approved it's first national budget sin oil prices sank into historic lows earlier this month.
