President of Honduras calls for peace after re-election

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez called on the country’s leaders Tuesday to accept his disputed reelection and bring peace to the divided country, even as his challenger said he would once again challenge the result.

“The people have spoken and it only remains to comply with their will, expressed freely at the ballot box,” Hernandez said in a televised speech.

But street protests continued Tuesday, with roads and highways blocked at various points by burning tires and rocks two days after the Electoral Tribunal rejected complaints by Salvador Nasralla and declared Hernandez the victor in the Nov. 26 election.

According to the court’s official count, Hernandez won with 42.95 percent to 41.42 for Nasralla, a former sportscaster. The Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Shiite rebels said it intercepted a missile fired over southern Riyadh on Tuesday, which the Houthi rebels said was targeting a “top leadership” meeting at the royal palace in Riyadh, the kingdom’s capital. It was the second time that a rebel projectile had reached Riyadh. A part of central Idaho has become the nation’s first International Dark Sky Reserve. The International Dark-Sky Association late Monday designated the 1,400-squaremile Central Idaho Dark Sky Reserve. The area’s night skies are so pristine that interstellar dust clouds are visible in the Milky Way.