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The former Portuguese colony has seen nine coups or attempted coups since 1980.

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Myanmar's military ousted the Nobel laureate's elected government and seized power in a 2021 coup, sparking a civil war.

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Sir Robbie also dismissed claims of there having been a "board-level orchestrated coup" over the leaking of the memo as "complete nonsense".

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Morgan Gibbs-White applied the coup de grace 12 minutes from the end, by which time many Liverpool supporters had given up and headed for the exits.

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Shah told me the notion of a coup was "fanciful".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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