(Reuters) -Army officers in Guinea-Bissau said on Wednesday they had toppled President Umaro Sissoco Embalo after disputed elections, the latest coup in the West African nation long plagued by instability and drug trafficking. Here is a timeline of Guinea-Bissau’s coups and attempted coups: NOVEMBER 1980 – FIRST COUP Prime Minister Joao Bernardo Vieira ousted President …
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By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) -A Peruvian court on Wednesday sentenced former President Martin Vizcarra to 14 years in prison after finding him guilty of taking bribes years before he took office, adding to a list of former leaders jailed for corruption. According to the verdict, Vizcarra accepted bribes equivalent to $676,000 from construction firms …
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By Jeanny Kao and Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan has already held preliminary talks with the United States about what weapons it wants to buy as part of a $40 billion supplementary defence budget, Defence Minister Wellington Koo said on Thursday. Taiwan President Lai Ching-te announced the previous day the new spending plan, which runs …
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SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) -Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday the United States is aiming to allow further deployments of troops and aircraft to tackle drug trafficking. Speaking in the Dominican Republic, which has authorized the temporary deployment of U.S. elements, Hegseth said he was hoping other countries would accept U.S. military presence on their …
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MEXICO CITY -Mexico is investigating the president of the Miss Universe organization in relation to alleged drugs and arms trafficking as well as fuel theft, the Attorney General’s Office said on Wednesday, adding to controversy surrounding the beauty pageant. The office in a statement said it has issued 13 arrest warrants as part of the …
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(Reuters) -The Pentagon has concluded that Alibaba Group Holding, Baidu Inc and BYD Co should be added to a list of companies that aid the Chinese military, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday. Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg informed lawmakers of the conclusion in a letter on October 7, three weeks before Presidents Donald Trump and …
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(Corrects to say Trump asked PM to lower the volume, not tone, in headline. Corrects typographical error in “hypothetical” in paragraph 3.) (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump called Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi this week and advised her not to provoke Beijing on the question of Taiwan’s sovereignty, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, …
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By Kanishka Singh and Anathi Madubela WASHINGTON/ JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Donald Trump said South Africa will not be invited to take part in next year’s G20 summit in Florida after Washington boycotted the leaders’ summit in Johannesburg last week, which the African nation called a “punitive” measure against it. The Group of 20 leaders adopted a …
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(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump weighed in on Honduras’ tightly contested presidential race on Wednesday, backing Nasry Asfura of the conservative National Party, saying he can work with Asfura to counter drug trafficking. “I hope the people of Honduras vote for Freedom and Democracy, and elect Tito Asfura, President!” Trump said on Truth Social. Hondurans …
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SYDNEY (Reuters) -A constitutional challenge against Australia’s social media ban on children younger than 16 has been filed in the nation’s highest court, two weeks before the world-first law is set to take effect. A campaign group called the Digital Freedom Project said on Wednesday it launched proceedings in the High Court of Australia in a …
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