Military Coup
27th April 1978 is counted as a black day in history of Afghanistan, it was the day when the first President of Afghanistan Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan with his family and cabinet members were killed in Presidential palace by a well arranged military...
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The leaders of the military coup in Niger have promised a “return to constitutional order”, three days after overthrowing President Mamadou Tandja.
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made popular Feb 22 2010
Mutinous troops led by an army colonel captured Niger’s President Mamadou Tandja after a gun battle on Thursday, and said they were suspending the constitution...
made popular Feb 19 2010
Bangladesh tonight hanged the five ex-Army officers, convicted for assassinating the country’s founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, almost three decades after he was killed...
made popular Jan 28 2010
The presidents of the Mercosur trade bloc nations expressed their “most energetic condemnation” of the coup in Honduras and announced their “full...
made popular Dec 11 2009
Mexico is working to get ousted President Manuel Zelaya out of the Brazilian Embassy, a refuge where he has spent nearly three months in a failed effort to get his...
made popular Dec 10 2009
Honduras’ president-elect said Tuesday he wants amnesty for ousted President Manuel Zelaya and for all of those involved in the June 28 coup that deposed...
made popular Dec 9 2009
US President Barack Obama may be well-intentioned but he’s still stuck in the past when it comes to supporting Honduras’ recent, post-coup election,...
made popular Dec 8 2009
Honduras’ Congress ended hopes of reversing a coup that has isolated one of the poorest countries in the Americas, voting against reinstating ousted President...
made popular Dec 3 2009
Leaders from Latin America and former colonial powers Spain and Portugal say Honduras should reinstate ousted President Manuel Zelaya as a “fundamental...
made popular Dec 2 2009
Honduras has a newly elected president. The question is whether he can convince the world the vote was legitimate and showed that Hondurans want to put a summer coup...
made popular Nov 30 2009
Thousands of soldiers have been deployed across Honduras to oversee a controversial election which will cement the overthrow of President Manuel Zelaya.
The de facto...
made popular Nov 28 2009
The Honduran Congress has scheduled a debate on the reinstatement of ousted President Mel Zelaya for three days after the Nov. 29 presidential election, ignoring...
made popular Nov 18 2009
When the U.S. last week finally brokered a deal between ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and the man who replaced him following the June 28 coup, de facto...
made popular Nov 7 2009
A deal to resolve the political crisis in Honduras has failed, a spokesman for ousted President Manuel Zelaya says.
His comments came after interim leader Roberto...
made popular Nov 6 2009
Occupants of the Brazilian Embassy in Honduras, where ousted President Manuel Zelaya is holed up with his supporters, complained Wednesday about loud music blasted by...
made popular Oct 22 2009
Talks to end a nearly four-month-old political crisis in Honduras have again stalled, with a representative for deposed President Manuel Zelaya calling the interim...
made popular Oct 21 2009
Ask the waitress at La Terraza de Don Pepe, a neon-lit restaurant in this capital city’s shabby downtown, where the Virgin is and she waves toward the back, past the...
made popular Oct 19 2009
The rivals for Honduras’ presidency toned down hopes for an end to the nation’s political standoff despite an apparent breakthrough by negotiators who said...
made popular Oct 15 2009
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Diplomats from throughout the hemisphere were converging Wednesday on Honduras to resolve a standoff that has left the impoverished Central American country with two...
made popular Oct 7 2009
A Jewish civil rights organization is expressing alarm over conspiracy theories claiming Jews and Israel aided the ouster of the Honduran president and attempts to...
made popular Oct 5 2009
Reporting from Mexico City and Tegucigalpa, Honduras — Themeeting, by all accounts, was tense and difficult. Whether it erupted in shouted insults remains a...
made popular Sep 30 2009
The de facto government that’s in power in Honduras closed down television and radio stations Monday morning that are aligned with ousted President Manuel...
made popular Sep 29 2009
Ousted Honduras President Manuel Zelaya, who returned to his country this week after three months in exile, is accusing his government of hiring Israeli mercenaries to...
made popular Sep 25 2009
On this, the day when hope springs eternal, President Zelaya is back in Honduras, more specifically at the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa. How he got there, no one is...
made popular Sep 23 2009
Deposed President Manuel Zelaya’s surprise return to Honduras to reclaim his seat had him holed up in the Brazilian Embassy Tuesday, saying he feared for his life...
made popular Sep 23 2009
Global condemnation. Millions of dollars of aid cut off. Revoked visas and calls of illegitimacy. None of this has made the interim government of Honduras, led by...
made popular Sep 22 2009
The ousted president of Honduras has briefly crossed the country’s border with Nicaragua, in a symbolic move the US has described as a...
made popular Jul 25 2009
Conscious of its historical dominance in Latin America – including a track record of supporting brutal right-wing dictatorships – the United States quickly sought a...
made popular Jul 22 2009
The international and domestic problems of el Presidente Chávez are increasingly pressing, and a few well-placed nudges might help him further along the path toward...
made popular Jul 17 2009
Negotiations to end Honduras’ political crisis are facing a new challenge after the ousted president vowed to act on his own if he is not returned to power in the...
made popular Jul 14 2009
Honduras — In the tile-roofed presidential palace near downtown Tegucigalpa, a man sits behind a long wooden desk claiming to be the country’s president.
But...
made popular Jul 13 2009
Honduras, a Central American country of about 8 million, has found itself isolated from the world since the June 28 military-led coup that removed and exiled President...
made popular Jul 8 2009
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been the clear winner so far in Honduras’ political crisis, leading the hemispheric condemnation of the military ouster June...
made popular Jul 8 2009
The Obama administration is playing a game of semantics in describing the military coup in Honduras against leftist President Zelaya. Whether one endorses the coup or...
made popular Jul 2 2009
The international community has condemned the military coup against Honduras’ president. The United States and the Organization for American States has called for...
made popular Jul 2 2009
Sunday’s military coup in Honduras is a reminder of democracy’s shallow roots in much of Latin America, and it provides a major test of US and international...
made popular Jun 30 2009
Shots were fired near the presidential palace in Honduras where protests erupted after the army ousted and exiled Manuel Zelaya, the leftist president, yesterday in...
made popular Jun 29 2009
In what is playing out as an eerie reminder of the coup staged by the then General Musharaf in disposing Nawaz Sharif when he was out of the country...it seems to be...
made popular Mar 12 2009
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