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“The Other 9/11”: Ariel Dorfman on 50th Anniversary of U.S.-Backed Coup in Chile That Ousted Allende
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“The Other 9/11”: Ariel Dorfman on 50th Anniversary of U.S ...
Quick Glance: U.S. Triggers Chilean Coup with Unintended Consequences at Home
  • Military jets bomb La Moneda presidential palace during the coup on September 11, 1973, in Santiago, Chile.

  • President Salvador Allende commits suicide and General Augusto Pinochet begins a 17-year dictatorship.

  • The coup in Chile leads to human rights concerns and Congress playing a larger role in U.S. foreign policy.

  • In addition to ongoing propaganda efforts, the CIA meets with Chilean military contacts in a direct attempt to incite a coup to prevent an Allende presidency.
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Aung San Suu Kyi ill but denied urgent care, says son: Myanmar's detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi is being denied medical care despite her ill health ...
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Aung San Suu Kyi ill but denied urgent care, says son
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Despots make African coups inevitable: As hunger and poverty deepen in Africa — caused by Covid-induced economic crises, inflation due to the Russian invasion of ...
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Despots make African coups inevitable
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A renown dancer now runs a food stall near Mandalay due to economic hardship. Theaters and dance troupes across Myanmar have shut down after the COVID-19 ... Show more
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A popular Myanmar bridge sees a plunge in tourism since the COVID-19 outbreak and the 2021 military coup. U Bein Bridge is believed to be the world’s oldest ... Show more
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A decline in tourism is a blow to blacksmiths on Myanmar’s scenic Inle Lake. Myanmar has seen a decline in tourism since the coronavirus outbreak and the 2021 ... Show more
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Tinubu urges African leaders to respect democracy, rule of law: Tinubu said coups d'état should be discouraged in the continent, especially in the face of ...
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Tinubu urges African leaders to respect democracy, rule of law
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Warring factions in Sudan have agreed to a temporary truce : U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield says the U.S. hopes the three-day truce between ...
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Warring factions in Sudan have agreed to a temporary truce
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Myanmar’s Inle Lake is famous for its beautiful scenes and unique cone-shaped fishing nets - used by fishermen slowly moving across the lake’s large surface ... Show more

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Africa is less democratic and safe than a decade ago, study says: A new study found that democratic participation and “security and rule of law” deteriorated at ...
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Africa is less democratic and safe than a decade ago, study says
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Famous poet Pablo Neruda was poisoned after a coup, according to a new report : His nephew says scientists found high levels of the bacterium that can cause ...
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Famous poet Pablo Neruda was poisoned after a coup, according to a new ...
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Family Says Chilean Poet Pablo Neruda Was Poisoned After Pinochet’s 1973 Coup: In Chile, forensic experts have found famed poet and Nobel Prize winner Pablo ...
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Quick Glance: Forensic Investigation Confirms Chilean Poet Pablo Neruda Was Poisoned to Death Following the Pinochet Coup
  • Pablo Neruda, Chile's Nobel poet laureate, diplomat, and leftist politician, died just days after Gen.

  • "What does this mean?

  • That Neruda was murdered, there was an action in 1973 by agents of the state."

  • An international team of scientists declared in 2017 that they were "100% certain" Neruda did not die of cancer.

  • Neruda, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971 for "poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams," has been dubbed "the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language" by Colombian novelist Gabriel Garca Márquez, also a Nobel laureate.
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Nobel Prize Winners in Literature: Experts Present Report on Cause of Poet Neruda's Death
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Chilean literary legend was poisoned after coup, report says: Pablo Neruda’s leftist politics put him at odds with coup-mongers
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Chilean literary legend was poisoned after coup, report says
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Right-wingers and "lateral thinkers" in the judiciary: coup d'état with bending of the law
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Right-wingers and
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Myanmar pilgrims return to Buddha footprint temple: MAGWAY, Myanmar: Devotees are returning in greater numbers to a central Myanmar temple ...
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Myanmar pilgrims return to Buddha footprint temple
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Myanmar’s junta continues to target anti-junta doctors for arrest: ‘We left the government medical sector because we couldn’t continue working for a group of ...
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Myanmar’s junta continues to target anti-junta doctors for arrest
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EXPLAINER: How Peru Plunged Into Political Crisis: The country is in turmoil following the ouster of a democratically elected president and weeks of protests in ...
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EXPLAINER: How Peru Plunged Into Political Crisis
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Reich citizen proximity? The AfD is currently at 15 percent: Two people from the right-wing network, which is allegedly planning a coup by the current government ...
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Reich citizen proximity? The AfD is currently at 15 percent
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German police raids target group suspected of far-right plot to overthrow government
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German police raids target group suspected of far-right plot to overthrow ...
Quick Glance: 25 arrests in the German Reich citizenship scene - also in Austria
  • According to Attorney General Peter Frank on Wednesday afternoon in Karlsruhe, eight of the suspects are currently in custody.

  • According to the Federal Prosecutor's Office, with the exception of a Russian woman, all individuals arrested were German nationals.

  • The plan was to destabilize Germany from the right.

  • In addition to firearms, detectives discovered documents for a right-wing coup.
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German coup plot fuelled by conspiracy claims, COVID measures: German officials say they expect more people to be detained in connection with an alleged ...
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German coup plot fuelled by conspiracy claims, COVID measures
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Myanmar beekeepers have been stung by high prices due to COVID-19 and the 2021 military coup. They say they’re having trouble making a profit.

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Business is bad for Bagan’s buggy drivers. The COVID-19 pandemic and Myanmar’s 2021 military coup are keeping tourists away.

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Business bad for Bagan’s buggy drivers as pandemic and coup keep tourists away: Myanmar’s key tourist industry is hit hard as economy shrinks, inflation surges.
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Business bad for Bagan’s buggy drivers as pandemic and coup keep tourists ...
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Young, underground reporters ‘fight a gun with a pen’ in Myanmar: Myanmar is now one of the world’s most dangerous places for journalists. For the first time ...
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Young, underground reporters ‘fight a gun with a pen’ in Myanmar
Quick Glance: The Myanmar junta has sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to another six years in prison for corruption.
  • Suu Kyi "was sentenced to three years imprisonment each for two corruption cases" in which she was accused of accepting payments from a businessman, according to the source, who added that the terms would be served concurrently.

  • In the most recent allegation, the Nobel laureate, who has been held in military captivity since the night of the coup, was accused of accepting $550,000 in bribes from businessman Maung Weik.

  • She is currently on trial for five further counts of corruption.

  • A military television showed a video last year of Maung Weik alleging he had provided Suu Kyi $550,000 over several years.
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Toyota opens new Myanmar plant put on hold following coup: Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) said on Wednesday it had begun assembling cars at a new plant in Myanmar ...
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Toyota opens new Myanmar plant put on hold following coup
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Boris Johnson has officially resigned as prime minister.

From Covid to a Cabinet coup - these are the moments that defined his premiership.

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From Covid to a Cabinet coup - these are the moments that defined Boris Johnson's premiership.

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The quality of jobs has also deteriorated, with more irregular hours and lower pay, ILO says. Read more: https://aje.io/64ves7

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Myanmar junta slams US summit snub, lauds ties with China: Myanmar's junta on Friday slammed the United States for snubbing it at a regional summit and ...
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Myanmar junta slams US summit snub, lauds ties with China
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Amid Conflict, Travel Flickers Back to Life in Myanmar: While international tourism may never fully recover, domestic travel is on the rise despite widespread ...
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Amid Conflict, Travel Flickers Back to Life in Myanmar
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The COVID-19 pandemic and the 2021 military coup have devastated Bagan’s lacquerware industry. Tourism from abroad drives the industry in Myanmar’s ancient ... Show more

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Seth takes a closer look at the January 6 committee investigating Donald Trump's coup attempt preparing to hold its first televised hearing in ... Show more

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Myanmar elephants suffer as the coronavirus pandemic and a military coup drive down tourist numbers. One elephant trainer told RFA that elephants become ... Show more

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Although the exact origins are unclear, animal release has long been a component of Buddhist practice in Myanmar. People free captive animals to increase ... Show more

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Twenty elephants in Myanmar’s Wingabaw Elephant Camp are facing a food shortage - another in the litany of crises facing the nation since the military ... Show more

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Myanmar’s Central Bank has ordered state agencies to exclusively use the local kyat currency for domestic transactions ... Show more

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A new China-Myanmar railway route has been opened, with the goal of speeding up exports to Myanmar as China bolsters its investments there after the ... Show more

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Residents of Yangon celebrated the Buddha’s birthday in Myanmar’s nationwide Kason Festival, considered one of the country’s central religious festivals of ... Show more

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Residents of Dala, a township on the southern banks of Myanmar’s Yangon River, rely on an extensive ship and motorboat system to reach the country’s largest ... Show more

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Every year, mango merchants lay out their green and golden produce in large baskets on their boats and on the banks of Myanmar’s Yangon River ... Show more

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Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi back in junta court after COVID-19 quarantine: YANGON: Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi returned for hearings in a junta ...
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Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi back in junta court after COVID-19 ...
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Soaring unemployment in Myanmar follows junta rollback of labor rights: Sources say employers fire workers at will and impose brutal work conditions on those who ...
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Soaring unemployment in Myanmar follows junta rollback of labor rights
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Conditions are grim for workers in post-coup Myanmar. The International Labor Organization estimates that more than 1.6 million Myanmar workers lost their ... Show more

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Strife in Myanmar Curbs Traditional New Year Celebrations: The coronavirus pandemic curbed celebrations for the past two years, and the military’s ouster of the ...
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Strife in Myanmar Curbs Traditional New Year Celebrations
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Mizoram has started issuing identity cards to Myanmar refugees, says official: The cards will mention that the possessor has taken shelter in the northeastern ...
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Mizoram has started issuing identity cards to Myanmar refugees ...
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Musician fears beloved Burmese bamboo xylophone will be a casualty of COVID, coup
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Musician fears beloved Burmese bamboo xylophone will be a casualty of ...
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A pattala player laments loss of the traditional Myanmar art form. 83-year-old Kyaw Myint once studied under Myanmar’s top pattala masters ... Show more

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Suu Kyi 'in quarantine' after staff tests COVID-19 positive: The 76-year-olds civilian government was ousted in a coup last year that triggered mass ...
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Suu Kyi 'in quarantine' after staff tests COVID-19 positive
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Myanmar to reopen to international tourists: After the coronavirus-induced shutdown, Myanmar was further isolated after a coup last year saw huge protests and a ...
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Myanmar to reopen to international tourists
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African Union holds summit amid crises over coups and COVID: Two-day summit in Addis Ababa will address six coups or attempted coups over past 18 months and low ...
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African Union holds summit amid crises over coups and COVID
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African Union condemns 'wave' of military coups | DW | 06.02.2022: Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali and Sudan have all been suspended from the AU ...
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Canada’s NDP leader says trucker convoy aims to ‘overthrow’ gov’t: Jagmeet Singh calls for emergency debate in Canadian parliament over ongoing trucker ...
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Canada’s NDP leader says trucker convoy aims to ‘overthrow’ gov’t
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Wasted Year: Once perceived as Asia's final frontier, Myanmar has been tested severely by dual shocks -- a surge in Covid-19 cases in 2021 and the military ...
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Wasted Year
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Q&A: Rep. Jamie Raskin on his son's death and the Jan. 6 committee: Raskin emphasized that the Capitol riot is better understood as having "three rings" of ...
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Q&A: Rep. Jamie Raskin on his son's death and the Jan. 6 committee
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African Union | Amidst a wave of coups and a pandemic: Civil conflicts, Islamist insurgencies, a rising number of military takeovers and the COVID-19 outbreak ...
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African Union | Amidst a wave of coups and a pandemic
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Letters: KC readers discuss Kansas COVID quackery, Chiefs memories, failed Spain coup
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Letters: KC readers discuss Kansas COVID quackery, Chiefs memories ...
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Military Court Sentences Aung San Suu Kyi to 4 More Years in Prison: In Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced to another four years in prison after a closed ...
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Military Court Sentences Aung San Suu Kyi to 4 More Years in Prison
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A military coup and a global pandemic have dealt twin blows to tourism in Bagan. The ancient capital is one of Myanmar’s top tourist destinations ...

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Best of 2021: The election of Joe Biden was supposed to usher in a return to normal, an end to the pandemic, a calming of the waters ...
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Best of 2021
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Boris Johnson faces rebellion as 2019 MPs try and force no-confidence vote: Johnson will try to save his premiership today as he faces a mounting rebellion from ...
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Boris Johnson faces rebellion as 2019 MPs try and force no-confidence vote