Recently, a reporter for a Turkish news station was supposedly rummaging around in the garbage when she found what appeared to be secret codes used during the country’s recent coup attempt. Which would have been fascinating if they weren’t actually just cheats to Grand Theft Auto IV.

CNN Türk staffers abandoned their studio, but remained on the air, as soldiers took over the building as journalists resisted—leading to fights and at least one shooting, audio of which came across the news outlet’s airwaves.

Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim confirmed Friday that a faction of the military launched an attempted coup amidst reports of low-flying jets, tanks, and blocked bridges. The military, for its part, claimed in a statement that the government has been overthrown.

Michel Kafando, the interim president of Burkina Faso, returned to power today after being ousted in a military coup last week. The coup, carried out by supporters of former president Blaise Compaoré, was met with protests among the Burkinabe people and condemnation from fellow leaders of West African nations.

Members of the Burkina Faso military announced this morning that the military had seized power from the West African nation’s transitional government in a coup, unseating the interim president and prime minister and dissolving the government in the process.

While the United States announced it was withholding some military aid to Egypt in August, CNN reports that the U.S. is now officially cutting off all aid to the country after the July coup against Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.

The chief justice of Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court was sworn in as president today, after four days of protest led to a military coup against the democratically-elected Mohamed Morsi.