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History of military coups in South Asia
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | 9 days ago
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General Ayyub Khan resigns and General Yahya Khan takes over. General Zia ul-Haq stages military coup and becomes president in 1978. In a military coup, General Pervez Musharraf overthrows Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and becomes the head of state. Timeline...
Tags: military coup, general ayyub, Ayyub Khan, military rule, Bangladesh, Dhāka, Chiefs of Army Staff Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Khaled Mosharraf, Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, Ziaur Rahman, Bangladesh Liberation War, Bangladesh Awami League, Military coups in Bangladesh, Politics, War Conflict
Veja Magazine Update
Once again, we revisit Veja Magazine to analyze the week’s events. The interview this week was with Bruno Senna, the nephew of Brazil’s foremost sporting hero after Pele. He has just been drafted onto a Formula I team and seems a...
Tags: military coup, Brazil, Pelé, Senna, Formula One, astronauts, Mars, Lula, World Cup, Rio de Janeiro, Olympics
Deal reached to reinstate ousted Honduran president
Tegucigalpa :: Honduras | 25 days ago
Credibility Elections scheduled for late November should take place as planned...Zelaya was toppled June 28 as he was seeking to change Honduras' constitution to allow him another term in office...The international community and the OAS see Zelaya as the legitimate...
Tags: Manuel Zelaya, Mr. Zelaya, Mr Zelaya, Zelaya Restoration Would Depend, Honduras Rivals Agree, presidency manuel, Honduran Congress, ousted presidency, Roberto Micheletti, military coup
Columnist Solves "Obama Problem" [Banana Republic]
New York :: NY :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Perry, a "prize-winning newspaper editor" who writes for Newsmax , wrote today that a military coup might just be the best way to "resolve" America's "Obama problem."...It is actually a pretty standard conservative fantasy: heroic, tough military men...
Tags: American, military coup
Louder than bombs! Sonic cannon used against citizenry: Pittsburgh, Tegucigalpa
For the first time in U.S. history, this week officials used a long range acoustic device [LRAD] "sonic cannon" against U.S. civilians in Pittsburgh at the G-20 protests. Meanwhile, in Honduras, the same weapon, along with chemical warfare,...
Tags: sonic cannon, LRAD, Manuel Zalaya, Honduras, G-20, Pittsburg, military coup, protests, sonic canon, nonlethal weapon
Honduran de facto leader offers deal
Tegucigalpa :: Honduras | 2 months ago
Credibility Honduras' de facto president said Thursday that he is willing to resign and let ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya back into the country, as long as Zelaya gives up his quest for leadership. The new proposal calls for the person next in line, as required...
Tags: Jose Manuel Zelaya, Honduras, Roberto Micheletti, Mr. Zelaya, presidency roberto, ousted presidency, formally declared, military coup, presidency zelaya
Honduras: Crisis Peaking Again
Honduras approaches the brink of civil war. Recent contributing factors and their accompanying emotional impact are: Mediation Talks Stalled: Honduras's government confirmed Wednesday that a new round of talks with the country's ousted president,...
Tags: Dorothy Day, Honduras, military coup, Manuel Zelaya, Oscar Arias, Micheletti, civil war, European Union, Roman Catholic Church, Central American Dominicans, Venezuela, Hermano Juancito, HIV-AIDS, malnutrition, poverty, economic impact
Mauritania holds first post-coup election
Nouakchott :: Mauritania | 4 months ago
Credibility Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz quit the army after leading the rebellion that toppled former President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, the country's first elected head of state since independence in 1960. He also stepped down as the head of the junta government to...
Tags: Mauritania, Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz, presidential elections, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, military coup
Honduras lifts post-coup curfew
Tegucigalpa :: Honduras | 4 months ago
Credibility The caretaker administration of President Roberto Micheletti, installed by Honduras' Congress after the coup, announced the ending of the curfew on television and radio. "The government was able not only to reduce crime in the whole country, but also...
Tags: Manuel Zelaya, Honduras, military coup, Roberto Micheletti, Tegucigalpa, lifted curfew, honduras lifted, Honduran
Honduras government gains ground with Congress
Tegucigalpa :: Honduras | 4 months ago
Credibility But he also stopped short of calling for Zelaya’s immediate reinstatement, which he’d done in previous statements. While Engel said the United States and its allies in the Western Hemisphere could not tolerate what appeared to be a military coup, he said...
Tags: Manuel Zelaya, Honduras, president manuel, Roberto Micheletti, Costa Rica, Honduran, military coup
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