As today marks the 25th year since the May 19th coup led by George Speight, the Prime Minister at the time, Mahendra Chaudhry ...

His books have included Speight of Violence (Fiji's 2000 coup) and Swimming with Sharks, a collection of tales of the Pacific. His most recent book, The Catch, was on the scandal of the global and ...

The trial of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has begun, with charges that he plotted a coup d’etat and led a “criminal organisation” to overturn the result of the October 2022 ...

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suggested during a Fox News interview Friday night that former FBI director James Comey may have been attempting to incite “some kind of coup or some type of insurrection” against President ...

Ivory Coast's military ruler, General Robert Guei, said Monday he had escaped an assassination attempt at his residence during the night but that two of his bodyguards had been killed. "Some young ...

An Indiana man convicted in the fatal shooting of a police officer in 2000 was executed Tuesday by lethal injection in the state’s second execution in 15 years. Benjamin Ritchie, 45, had been on ...

Experts working in the Tomb of Cerberus in Giugliano, an area in Naples, unsealed a 2,000-year-old sarcophagus. Inside they found the remains of a shockingly well-preserved body lying face-up and ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week’s best and worst from Allysia Finley, Kate Bachelder Odell and Kyle Peterson. Democrats went all-in to retain control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court this year ...

EVEN before the 20th Congress convenes, there is talk of a major reorganization in the Senate with the entry of a new set of senators and the emergence of a five-person "Duterte bloc." Reelected Sen.

Paris, 16 May 2025 – The wife and son of former Gabon president Ali Bongo have been freed alongside him 20 months after they were taken captive by coup leaders.