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...known for the yellow shirts they wear in their protests, is a loose alliance of groups opposed to the return of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra that includes businesspeople, Bangkok's urban middle class and royalists. Thaksin was ousted in a military coup in September 2006 after months of streets protests by the PAD, and subsequently convicted of conflict of interest. He fled the country rather than serve a two-year prison sentence. A proxy party supported by Thaksin that came to power in 2008 was dissolved by the Constitutional Court for electoral fraud after months of PAD protests that...
...Georgia AN INCONVENIENT MUTINY Armored tanks rushed to break up a revolt by some 500 soldiers on a military base in Mukhrovani, one day before NATO embarked on sensitive military exercises nearby. Officials painted the mutiny as a covert Russian coup attempt, which Moscow flatly denied. The uprising comes at a bad time for President Mikheil Saakashvili, who faces mass protests calling for his resignation over his handling of last year's war with Russia...
...expecting to drive into Baghdad suddenly and seize it in a coup de main." - On the military's approach to conquering Iraq's capital (TIME, April...
...century if Arctic ice keeps melting. So when the Bush Administration bowed to pressure from environmental groups last year and finally listed the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) - admitting that melting sea ice was the reason - it was considered a rare green coup. Since the ESA mandates the government protect endangered species from hazards, listing the polar bear as threatened by global warming would appear to require Washington to control carbon emissions. Some green groups even thought the ESA could be used to fight new coal plants and other big emitters of greenhouse gases...
...government linked the mutiny to a coup plot it claims to have discovered two months ago, said Utiashvili, the Interior Ministry spokesman. Government officials showed the press a video claiming to show Givi Khvaladze, a former official at the Defense Ministry, outlining plans to seize control of the government with 200 military vehicles, heavy armor and 5,000 Russian soldiers. "Russia will come to our assistance" and will help "liquidate the leaders" of the government, he says in the video, according to Interfax. Khvaladze as well as a handful of other high-ranking officials are under arrest, while others...