Coup plot &#39;silence&#39; played down
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The Foreign Office is playing down reports it had full details of a coup plot in Equatorial Guinea two months before it was nipped in the bud.
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Britain received a full outline of a plot to stage a coup d'etat in Equatorial Guinea at least two months before it was nipped in the bud.
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MI5 recruitment has always been a secret affair - and none more so than for their most famous agent, 007. But plans for another James Bond outing have been put on hold as the film&#39;s producers have been unable to find someone to try out Q&#39;s latest gadgets.
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BANGKOK , Thailand -- The generals billed it as a pro-democracy military coup, and although they had ousted one of the most popular prime ministers in Thailand's history, most commentators here yesterday tended to agree.
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With the passage of one week, the effect of the &quot;Kathmandu Valley blockade&quot; imposed by the Nepalese anti-government guerrillas has waned with the government&#39;s move to step up security in order to foil the embargo.
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President Vladimir Putin&#39;s government has played down revelations of terrorist involvement in the crash of two airliners, apparently not wanting to highlight an embarrassing security
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nuclear programmes, saying the US approach was a &quot;crafty trick&quot; to win presidential election votes. ruled out fresh talks despite appeals from the other participants to come to the table.
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Almost two weeks after the royal coup, the capital remains mostly quiet, a testament both to the ambivalence of Nepalese disillusioned by their short experience with democracy and to the chilling efficiency of the government's measures to suppress dissent.
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KHARTOUM, Sept 26  -- Sudanese security forces maintained a clampdown on the capital Khartoum on Sunday after a reported coup attempt which the opposition dismissed as a ploy to divert attention from the Darfur crisis and an excuse to crush
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The British Government was told of an alleged plot to overthrow Equatorial Guinea&#39;s government months in advance, it was reported yesterday.
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Thailand's military coup this week interrupted filming of Nicolas Cage's new movie, a gangster thriller being shot in Bangkok, a news report said Thursday.
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A plot by Colombian left-wing rebels to kidnap President Uribe's sons has been foiled, Colombian police say.
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MALABO : The trial of 19 people accused of seeking to overthrow President Teodoro Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea was scheduled to resume after five days of hearings last week left the world little the wiser about the reality of their alleged putsch
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Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher was distressed to learn her son Mark had been arrested in South Africa and charged with funding a coup plot in Equatorial Guinea but was confident he would be found innocent, her spokesman said.
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Fiji's political leaders criticised the coup by military commander Voreqe Bainimarama but media censorship by the armed forces meant many Fijians did not hear their condemnations.
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Thai coup leaders hope probes into   graft allegations against deposed Prime Minister Thaksin   Shinawatra and his cabinet will end with them banished from   politics, their chief lawyer said on Wednesday.
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Peter Mandelson yesterday denied being involved in discussions over the alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea as the Conservatives began to put pressure on the government over what it knew and when.