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Syria’s president issued a decree granting amnesty and reducing sentences for several categories of crime committed prior to Thursday, his office and state media reported. No reason was given for the amnesty, but it came on the…
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Moldova’s pro-European President, Maia Sandu, said Russia’s Wagner paramilitary force was the main force behind an attempt to foment a coup against her, she told the Financial Times in an interview published on Friday. Sandu, interviewed…
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The UN said on Friday it was seeking contact with Niger coup leaders after they stopped its agencies and other organizations from working in military “operation zones.” “We’ve seen the reports. We are reaching out to the de facto…
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court in Tehran has ordered the US government to pay $330 million in damages for “planning a coup” against the newly established Islamic republic in 1980, the judiciary said Saturday. A year after the 1979 Islamic revolution that toppled…
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Algeria said it sent a high-ranking official to Niger on Thursday as part of its diplomatic push in the aftermath of a military coup in the neighboring country. The Algerian Foreign Ministry’s secretary-general, Lounes Magramane, “will…
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Niger’s coup leaders announced Sunday that they had closed the country’s airspace, as the deadline from the West African bloc ECOWAS for them to hand back power or face a possible military intervention approached. “Faced with the threat…
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West African defense chiefs were set to wrap up discussions about possible intervention in Niger on Friday, as mediators from the regional bloc push coup leaders in Niamey to restore constitutional order before an approaching deadline.…
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The Organization of Islamic Cooperation has demanded the immediate release of Niger’s democratically elected President Mohamed Bazoum, who has been detained following a coup d’état. Bazoum has not been heard from since early Thursday…
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Azerbaijan has arrested six men it said were linked to Iranian secret services and were plotting a coup in the Caspian nation. Baku said the six Azerbaijani nationals were “recruited by Iranian secret services to destabilize the…
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Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan called on troops on Sunday to “end” support for authoritarian leaders as talks begin on military reforms, part of a prolonged transition to civilian rule. Burhan seized power in a 2021 coup that…
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