1.   NATO soldiers may have foiled a coup against Plavsic by sealing off police stations Wednesday and seizing weapons from pro-Karadzic police.

2.   Pro-Plavsic police and the peace force essentially foiled that coup by preventing thousands of supporters bused in from across Serb holdings in Bosnia from reaching Banja Luka.

3.   The fourth attempted coup has been foiled in this oil-rich republic on the Caspian Sea, according to an official statement issued Friday.

4.   A coup was foiled in the west African state of Sierra Leone overnight, western diplomats in the capital Freetown said Tuesday.

5.   The coup was foiled after gunmen failed to hit the Iraqi president near Al-Ramadi palace, it said.