The ruling marks a significant effort to hold Mr. Bolsonaro accountable for accusations that he sought to effectively dismantle Brazil’s democracy by orchestrating a broad plan to stage a coup.

Bolsonaro and 33 others are accused of attempting a coup that included a plan to poison his successor, current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and kill a Supreme Court judge. Bolsonaro has ...

There have been rumours regarding the impending imposition of martial law or a state of emergency in Bangladesh. While the army chief has dismissed such speculation, India is keeping a close tab ...

By attempting what is, in effect, a coup, they may have triggered the most consequential crisis since the end of the civil war that devastated northern Ethiopia between 2020 and 2022. Depending on ...

Brazil's supreme court has decided to put former president Jair Bolsonaro on trial over an alleged coup plot. All five judges accepted the charges against him, related to an effort to cling to ...

Nguema, 50, ended the long-standing rule of his predecessor Ali Bongo and his family over the oil-rich but impoverished nation in the coup, the eighth in West and Central Africa between 2020 and 2023.

Protesters took to the streets of Istanbul. Bulent Gulten: “This is a coup to the national will and democracy. When viewed from foreign countries today, Turkey is seen as having an appearance ...

Vásquez, the former head of the Honduran Armed Forces and a key figure in the 2009 coup, faces the same charges of murder and attempted murder but has so far evaded capture. The case revolves around ...

Brazil’s Supreme Court has accepted charges against former President Jair Bolsonaro over an alleged attempted coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat. The five justices voted ...

Thousands gathered in Buenos Aires on Monday to commemorate the 49th anniversary of Argentina’s 1976 military coup, which led to a brutal dictatorship lasting seven years. Human rights groups ...

Romania has detained six people on charges of trying to overthrow the state with Russia’s help, prosecutors said, and a 101-year-old former army major general said his home had been raided as ...