coup
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A coup for Bezos and a windfall for FSG - where does deal leave Liverpool?
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
This is beyond crackpots, this is cuckoo coup territory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
He and Chavez, his prime minister at the time, faced charges of plotting a coup over the bid to dissolve Congress.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
Mexico and Peru have agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations following a row over the granting of asylum to a former Peruvian prime minister who was charged for a 2022 coup attempt.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
The station chief, Mr. Lawrence Devlin, was instructed to take as bold an action as he could keep secret: a coup would be all right.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
A former Portuguese colony in the Gulf of Guinea, the island nation of 200,000 inhabitants has a history marked by attempted coups including one in 2022 that was promptly thwarted by the military.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
"When our presence was no longer wanted after the coups, we left," he told The Africa Report.
From Barron's ● May 11, 2026
Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso left Ecowas after military coups brought their armies to power.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026
Hounkpè's view is significant, as Benin's relationship with the two states plummeted following the coups there.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026
If you wore special glasses you could see them spinning through the sky among the bats and homing birds—blondes, wars, famines, football, food shows, coups d’ etat, hairstyles stiff with hair spray.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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