Fiji military stages coup, fourth in 20 years
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Fiji's military took over running the country in a bloodless overthrow on Tuesday after confining the elected prime minister to his home in the South Pacific island nation's fourth coup in 20 years.
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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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Heavily armed Fijian troops put up roadblocks throughout the capital on Monday night as fears of a fourth coup in 20 years gripped the South Pacific nation.
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Heavily armed Fijian troops put up roadblocks throughout the capital on Monday night and took weapons from key police installations as fears of a fourth coup in 20 years gripped the South Pacific nation.
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The Army set up roadblocks as a fourth coup in 19 years appeared to get under way.
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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 Fijian troops set up roadblocks on Tuesday around government buildings which included the office of embattled Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase.
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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 cabinet is in hiding fearing a military coup as the island nation's rebel army chief delayed enforcing a noon deadline for the government to meet his demands.
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Fijian troops returned to their barracks on Thursday after taking control of parts of the capital in a show of force, but the embattled prime minister said he was confident that talks could still avert a coup.
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Sustained gunfire was heard coming from inside Fiji's main military barracks on Saturday, Reuters witnesses said, four days after the army overthrew the south Pacific island nation's elected government.
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Sustained gunfire was heard coming from inside Fiji's main military barracks on Saturday, witnesses said, four days after the army overthrew the south Pacific island nation's elected government.
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Tensions rose in Fiji on Monday as nervous Fijians waited to see whether the country's military commander would act on a threat to remove the embattled government in the South Pacific nation'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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New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters has met Fiji's rebellious military commander amid mounting fears of a military coup in the South Pacific nation, officials said.
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Fiji's military chief said on Wednesday his troops would quickly suppress any uprising, as the country's deposed prime minister called for non-violent protests against the South Pacific nation's fourth coup in 20 years.
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By Nopporn Wong-Anan BANGKOK  - Even though   Thailand's last military coup was 15 years ago, when Bangkok   motorists spotted tanks rolling down the street last week, many   thought the army was up to its old tricks once again.