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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Sir Mark Thatcher is to be interviewed about his alleged role in a coup plot by Equatorial Guinea authorities. He was arrested earlier this month by South African police for breaching South African laws and was released after posting bail.
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SIR Mark Thatcher has lost his fight to avoid being questioned about his alleged involvement in a foiled coup to topple the president of Equatorial Guinea.
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In diplomacy, silence can speak as loudly as the noisiest protest. When Israel announced plans to build 1,001 new homes in the West Bank, the silence from Washington echoed around the Middle East like a rifle shot.
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Claims that the security services foiled a plot by terrorists to fly an aircraft into Canary Wharf, London&#39;s tallest building, were played down last night by senior Whitehall officials.
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London - Britain knew about an alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea at least five weeks before a team of mercenaries was nabbed in Zimbabwe as they prepared to carry it out, the Observer newspaper reported on Sunday.
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Lawyers for Margaret Thatcher&#39;s son Mark are taking steps to prevent him answering questions under oath about his alleged involvement in a failed coup plot in Equatorial Guinea.
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First election since the military coup 15 months ago fuels fears of further political uncertainty in Thailand
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London - Britain received a full outline of a plot to stage a coup d&#39;etat in Equatorial Guinea at least two months before it was nipped in the bud, the Observer newspaper reported on Sunday.
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LONDON, - 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
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Hopes that Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot would be set free by the weekend were confounded, with unverifiable rumours proliferating over new conditions being set by the hostage-takers or of ...
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Charges are dropped in South Africa against eight men accused of plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea.
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It was unclear what role the suspect might have played in last weekâs killing of a tribal leader who had collaborated with the U.S.
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President Gen. Pervez Musharraf has dismissed as "nonsense" widespread speculation that his military-led government had been overthrown during his absence. A nationwide power outage and Musharraf's stop at a U.S. hospital over the weekend give rise to rumors of a coup.
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One would think that the cheerleaders for waging war on Saddam Hussein&#39;s Iraq, on the thoroughly discredited grounds that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, would have retreated into a period of quiet introspection.
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European governments have built "a wall of silence" around accusations that they let the CIA abduct their residents and run clandestine prisons on their territory, a European investigator said Wednesday.
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BANGKOK, Thailand - Thailand's military coup leaders may be losing their sense of humor. Five days after instructing soldiers to keep smiling, the ruling council decided Wednesday that there is a limit to how much fun soldiers should have.