Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said Nicolás Maduro carried out a coup d'état by swearing in as President on Friday instead of Edmundo González Urrrutia who failed to return ...

Myanmar's embattled junta has banned anyone eligible for military conscription from leaving the country without permission, ...

This extraordinary story is told in a new documentary, 'Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat', which juxtaposes jazz with political murder. Directed by Johan Grimonprez, it cut deep into the blood-and-rubber ...

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Gov. Ron DeSantis will be holding a press conference in Miami on Wednesday at the Florida International University.

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Missioners -- Catholics and Protestants – built up an outstanding educational system to help the poor and the needy in the villages and towns of the country. But the 1962 coup that installed a ...