A military court in Guinea-Bissau on Thursday ordered opposition leader Domingos Simões Pereira to remain under house arrest after he was questioned again over allegations of plotting a coup against the military government, according to his lawyer.

Kyrgyzstan has entered a new period of political uncertainty after authorities charged former security chief Kamchybek Tashiev and seven others with allegedly plotting to seize power from President Sadyr Japarov.

Kyrgyzstan authorities have charged eight people, including powerful ex-security chief Kamchybek Tashiev, with plotting to seize power ​from President Sadyr Japarov, who has consolidated power in ‌the historically volatile central Asian country.

US President Donald Trump has said that he expects to have a role in choosing Iran’s next leader, after the country’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was assassinated last Saturday.

Antonio Tejero Molina, the Spanish Civil Guard officer who led a failed 1981 coup that ended up strengthening Spain's fledging democracy, has died aged 93, his family's lawyer said Wednesday.