Coup

Myanmar detains US businessman who wrote about military coup, sources say

Adam Castillo, a former head of the American Chamber of Commerce in Myanmar who is based in Yangon where he runs a security firm, was stopped at an airport after traveling to the country.

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Soldiers from the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) patrol on a vehicle, next to an area destroyed by Myanmar's airstrike in Myawaddy, the Thailand-Myanmar border town under the control of a coalition of rebel forces led by the Karen National Union, in Myanmar, April 15, 2024.
A Turkish police officer and armored vehicle outside Istanbul Courthouse, March 26, 2019; illustrative.

Turkey detains 88 in nationwide raids over alleged links to group accused of 2016 coup attempt

Turkish authorities detain 88 suspects in nationwide operation targeting alleged members of the Gülen movement, linked to the 2016 coup attempt.

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Police officers stand guard at a polling station inside a school ahead of a general election, in Thingangyun Township, Yangon, Myanmar, December 27, 2025.

Myanmar to free over 6,000 prisoners in Independence Day amnesty amid general election

The junta also reduced sentences by one-sixth nationwide, excluding those convicted of serious crimes such as murder, rape, terrorism, corruption, and arms- or drug-related offenses.

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Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, son of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro, attends an interview with Reuters in Brasilia, Brazil December 19, 2025.

Former Brazilian president Bolsonaro confirms son's presidential pre-candidacy in official letter

"Given this scenario of injustice, I have decided to indict Flávio Bolsonaro as a pre-candidate to the Presidency," former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro said in an official letter.

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Sri Lankans storm prime minister's office, demanding he quit as well

Sri Lanka president tells parliament speaker he will resign on Wednesday * Protesters storm President's and PM's homes * PM also declared a state of emergency

JULY 13, 2022ByREUTERS
Demonstrators enter the Presidential Secretariat and President's House after Sri Lanka's President Rajapaksa fled, in Colombo

Will Vladimir Putin be ousted?

Conditions for Russian President Vladimir Putin's removal are piling by the day.

MARCH 24, 2022ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
PEOPLE TAKE part in a protest in Moscow on February 27 against the Russian invasion of Ukraine launched by Vladimir Putin.

Tunisian president cements power over judiciary

President Kais Saied outraged his opponents and alarmed democratic foreign allies with his announcement last week that he was dissolving the Supreme Judicial Council.

FEBRUARY 13, 2022ByREUTERS
Tunisian presidential candidate Kais Saied reacts after exit poll results were announced in a second round runoff of the presidential election in Tunis, Tunisia October 13, 2019.

Shtayyeh calls on African Union to oust Israel, charges it with apartheid

Leaders at the African Union summit discussed Israel's observer status at the AU, showing apparent rifts over ties with Israel.

FEBRUARY 5, 2022ByTOVAH LAZAROFF, REUTERS
African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat arrives for a meeting at the 33rd Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, February 10, 2020.

African Union suspends Burkina Faso after military coup

The country had already been suspended from the West African regional bloc, the Economic Community of West African States.

JANUARY 31, 2022ByREUTERS
ECOWAS Commission President Jean-Claude Brou speaks to journalists after their delegation met with ousted president Roch Kabore and the new military ruler of Burkina Faso, Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Damiba, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso January 31, 2022.

UN chief calls on Burkina Faso coup leaders to lay down arms

The broadcast came after two days of confusion and fear in Ouagadougou, the capital, where shooting erupted at army camps on Sunday.

JANUARY 24, 2022ByREUTERS
Antonio Guterres, United Nations (UN) Secretary General

Sudan's political situation is a rollercoaster ride - opinion

last month, a coup in Sudan removed then-prime minister Abdalla Hamdok for military rule that didn't last long.

JANUARY 18, 2022ByNEVILLE TELLER
PROTESTERS RALLY in Khartoum against military rule following last month's coup in Sudan.

Fresh violence in Kazakhstan after Russia sends troops to quell uprising

Armored personnel carriers and troops arrived in Almaty on Thursday. Internet in the country is mostly shut down. Eight police and national guard troops killed, 1,000 people injured during protests

JANUARY 5, 2022ByREUTERS
Kazakh law enforcement officers are seen on a barricade during a protest triggered by fuel price increase in Almaty, Kazakhstan January 5, 2022.

Myanmar soldiers accused of killing 11 after charred remains found

Video footage purporting to show the burned bodies was circulated on social media and images were published by some media, including the Myanmar Now news portal.

DECEMBER 8, 2021ByREUTERS
Myanmar's junta chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, who ousted the elected government in a coup on February 1, presides an army parade on Armed Forces Day in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, March 27, 2021.

Freed journalist Danny Fenster celebrates personal Hanukkah miracle

Fenster, the journalist freed from Myanmar on November 15, will be honored in his native Detroit’s Hanukkah candle-lighting ceremony on Sunday.

NOVEMBER 29, 2021ByBEN ZION GAD
American journalist Danny Fenster, who was released from prison on Monday after negotiations between former U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson and the ruling military junta in Myanmar, embraces his mother Rose after arriving at JFK International airport in New York.