Polynesian separatists lose power
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A censure vote removes French Polynesia's first pro-independence government, elected just four months ago.
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The A-9 connects government and rebel territory. The government closed it Aug. 12 due to fighting.
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The prime minister of the Solomon Islands, Manasseh Sogavare, is ousted in a no-confidence vote.
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French Polynesia's former President, Oscar Temaru, goes on hunger strike in protest against his ouster.
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US legal regime at GuantÃ¡namo Bay in chaos as judge throws out all charges against detainee.
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Pakistanâs premier military intelligence agency has lost control of some of the networks of Pakistani militants it has nurtured since the 1980s.
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French Polynesia's long-running political crisis took another twist here Friday with former president Gaston Flosse returned to power in the Pacific archipelago amid a boycott by independence supporters.
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Fiji's president dissolved parliament on Tuesday and sanctioned the military to remove embattled Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase, said New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark, who immediately imposed sanctions against Fiji's military.
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GOMA, Congo  - The former main rebel group during  Congo's civil war pulled out of a power-sharing transitional  government on Monday, dealing a major blow to the country's  already fragile peace process.
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IN a dramatic turn of events to the ill-fated Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)&#39;s fact-finding mission, the government on Tuesday night dumped the delegation at the Beitbridge border post, in defiance of a High Court order barring the
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Deposed Fiji Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase was flown out of the capital Suva to his home island on Wednesday, a day after the military exercised a bloodless overthrow in Fiji's fourth coup in 20 years.
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Fiji's military commander said Tuesday that he had seized control of the country and dismissed the elected prime minister after a weeks-long standoff between the two leaders rooted in tension between the South Pacific nation's indigenous people and its ethnic Indian minority.
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Authorities at the GuantÃ¡namo Bay detention facility have clamped down decisively in recent months.
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Residents of the Marshall Islands will be unable to use their credit cards from next week after the central Pacific nation's leading bank was cut off from a US partner by the anti-terrorist Patriot Act.
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JERUSALEM -- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas dissolved the Palestinian government yesterday and declared a state of emergency after rival Hamas forces took complete control of the Gaza Strip in what the Islamic movement called the territory's "liberation."
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Voters have crowded polling stations in the French Polynesian islands of Tahiti and Moorea for by-elections that residents here hope will pull the territory out of a 10-month political crisis.
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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.