Fiji military rounds up coup opponents
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Armed soldiers flew deposed Fiji Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase out of the capital Suva on Wednesday as the military began rounding up opponents of its takeover and declared a state of emergency.
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Fiji's position within the influential Pacific Islands Forum was under threat as the military set about forming an interim cabinet following the recent coup.
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Fiji's military is likely to force the embattled government of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase to step aside on Monday, military chief Commander Frank Bainimarama said.
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Fiji's defiant military ruler declared he is the boss in the South Pacific country as the prime minister returned to the capital on Saturday, a day after his cabinet went into hiding over concerns of a coup.
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Fiji will start posting soldiers and bodyguards to Iraq next month to guard United Nations staff there. Fiji will provide 155 soldiers to protect UN buildings and 24 bodyguards for officials, Republic of Fiji
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Soldiers moved against at least two police compounds in Fiji on Monday, seizing weapons in the apparent first step toward taking over the South Pacific island nation.
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Heavily-armed soldiers remained on Fiji's streets on Tuesday and government cars were being seized, radio reports said, as the military increased pressure on the government amid fears of a fourth coup in 20 years.
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The Commonwealth, an association of mostly former British colonial territories, suspended Fiji on Friday after a bloodless military coup this week that has been widely condemned.
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Fiji's military chief is likely to carry out his threat to overthrow the government early Monday, a report quoted government and military sources as saying.
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Fiji's military has extended its deadline to Monday for the government to meet its demands or be toppled, embattled Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase said as he and his ministers went into hiding.
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Fiji Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase said he was under house arrest on Tuesday after heavily armed troops surrounded his residence in the capital Suva, and accused the military of staging a coup.
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Fiji's prime minister went into hiding Friday in anticipation of a coup, but a deadline set by the country's defiant military commander passed without the threatened ouster of the government.
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Fiji's military is likely to force the embattled government of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase to step aside on Monday, military chief Commander Frank Bainimarama said and warned Qarase not to oppose him.
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Fiji's military chief was still in control of the country but his whereabouts were being concealed for security reasons, an army spokeswoman said after reports of gunfire from the main barracks of the capital, Suva, on Saturday.
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Fiji's military says it has taken over the government and dismissed elected Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase.
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Divisions over Fiji's military takeover widened on Friday as powerful traditional chiefs and politicians split on whether to support the bloodless overthrow of the South Pacific island nation's government.
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Fiji&#39;s military-led regime announced Thursday it would lift emergency regulations imposed when the armed forces ousted the elected government in a December coup.