Before Gadhafi's coup in 1969, Libya was a constitutional monarchy with a parliament, constitution and king.
The African Union suspended Mauritania from membership in the wake of last week's coup.
All of this is grist to the mill of Boeing, reeling from Airbus's coup in grabbing half the civil-jet market last year.
The encouraging news is that Mali's coup leaders - not an inspiring crowd - have been emphatically sidelined by events on the ground.
His main rival, Messaoud Ould Boulkheir, who had been the parliament's speaker, strongly opposing last year's coup, got only 16%, ahead of three other candidates.
During his inaugural general audience on Wednesday, Pope Francis called for an immediate political solution to the conflict in the Central African Republic after last weekend's coup.
This election would mark the first time in Pakistan's coup-ridden history that a civilian government served a full five-year term and transferred power to another elected administration.
If successful, this election would mark the first time in Pakistan's coup-ridden history that a civilian government served a full five-year term and transferred power to another elected administration.
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President Clinton will visit India and Bangladesh in mid-March, but the White House has yet to make a final decision on Pakistan, which had originally been on the itinerary before October's coup.
If it leads to a new government, this election would mark the first time in Pakistan's coup-ridden history that a civilian government served a full five-year term and transferred power to another elected administration.
Western aid money, reduced after the king's coup last year, should now flood back in, though Nepalis will hope that donors perform better than in the past, when billions were spent to little effect.
The Carlton boss's coup in snatching the licence for London weekday television from under the nose of Thames TV boss Richard Dunn, was largely down to his knack of knowing just how to pitch a deal.
Supporters of Mali's coup leader named him to head a new interim government in defiance of a deal brokered by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), a regional body that has been trying to mediate.
The African Union said Tuesday it will impose more sanctions on the country, one day after the Economic Community of West African States slapped the ruling military junta with travel and economic restrictions after last month's coup.
But things are changing thanks to a new constitution put on the books in 1997 that comes closer than any charter in Thailand's coup-and-corruption-plagued 60-year democratic history to providing the checks and balances vital to ensure cleaner, fairer politics.
It also happens that Tonga's chief justice, Michael Scott, a former Fiji high-court judge and himself a refugee from Fiji's coup, is an arch-opponent of Fiji's chief justice, Anthony Gates, controversially appointed in the wake of the Bainimarama takeover.
But Armstrong's big coup could also be AOL's eventual undoing.
W.A's biggest coup was the way its members got fans to believe they were all cold-hearted gangsters.
Mr Hague said restoring security and democratic rule to Mali after last year's military coup was important for stability in the wider region.
It is the Ivory Coast's first coup since independence in 1960, and has been condemned by France, the United States and various African countries.
The sight, in recent days, of Bangkok citizens welcoming the soldiers on their streets is reminiscent of Thailand's last coup, in 1991, says Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a political scientist.
Most people do not care to remember that Mr Chaudhry and his colleagues also took their oaths after Mr Musharraf's first coup in 1999 and owe their promotions to him.
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Mali's March 22 coup precipitated the fall of the country's north to a mix of secular and Islamist rebels, who now control a desert region the size of France at the heart of the Sahara.
They deplore the Islamist pull of Erdogan's party but a coup would scramble the country's democratic evolution altogether.
The two surviving leaders of Turkey's 1980 military coup have gone on trial charged with overthrowing the civilian government.
Rawitch's biggest publicity coup was an editorial in the Sundial endorsing our punishment.
It's a great coup and, who knows, maybe we can take this club into its own European adventure one day.
"It's a major coup to have Jarrod, " said Crusaders coach Brian Noble.
All that was shattered in 1987: Fiji was the scene of the South Pacific's first military coup, declared itself a republic and left the Commonwealth.
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