Mali soldiers declare coup, loot palace

Friday, March 23, 2012

BAMAKO, Mali -- Drunken soldiers looted Mali's presidential palace hours after they declared a coup Thursday, suspending the constitution and dissolving the institutions of one of the few established democracies in this troubled corner of Africa.

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