Coups D’etat


MOSCOW - Russia's Communist Party says Gennady Yanayev, a coup plotter who briefly declared himself president of the Soviet Union, replacing Mikhail Gorbachev, has died at age 73.

NIAMEY, Niger - Niger's electoral commission says the West African country's presidential vote is being pushed back by about a month.

NIAMEY, Niger - Niger's electoral commission says presidential elections to restore civilian rule after this year's military coup will be held Jan.

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Honduran President Porfirio Lobo warned Wednesday of a purported conspiracy to overthrow him just a year after his predecessor was ousted in a coup.

BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau - Renegade soldiers seized the head of Guinea-Bissau's armed forces and briefly detained the prime minister Thursday in an apparent coup attempt in this West African nation where the president was assassinated a year ago.
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