coup
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On Monday, former President Barack Obama announced he would travel to Detroit to stump for El-Sayed, a hard-won coup for the candidate.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026
The coup bid and a corruption probe against Flavio Bolsonaro did little to sway voters fed up with crime, violence and the battle to make ends meet in Latin America's biggest economy.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
It was the highest-level engagement between Washington and Myanmar’s ruling junta since the 2021 coup that ousted its elected leader, the Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, and plunged the country into civil war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
"For it to be on show now in this beautiful way, as part of Grizedale Observatory, what a coup for Cumbria."
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
Ever since the second coup some weeks ago, when the Igbo soldiers were killed, he had struggled to understand what was happening, read the newspapers more carefully, listened more closely to Master and his guests.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Guinea-Bissau, one of the poorest countries in the world, has experienced at least nine attempted and successful coups since gaining independence from Portugal in 1974.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Since coups in 2020 and 2021, Mali has been led by the military, which promised to restore calm in the vast desert nation that has been grappling with a security crisis since 2012.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 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
HERMIONE: Severus, I’m done with living off scraps, making failed attempts at coups.
From "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling
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