N Zealand planning Fiji sanctions
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New Zealand's PM Helen Clark says the country is preparing  sanctions after Fiji expelled its top diplomat.
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Fiji is expelling New Zealand's top diplomat amid tensions over the South Pacific island nation's military coup in December, New Zealand officials said Thursday.
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Fiji's embattled prime minister said a coup was underway in the South Pacific island nation on Tuesday, as the military raided key installations and set up roadblocks throughout the capital Suva.
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New Zealand is just about as far from the North Atlantic as you can get. Despite the distance, leaders of NATO will next week be discussing how to draw the Pacific nation and other regional democracies further into its orbit.
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Fiji Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase gave in to a raft of demands by his defiant military chief on Thursday after an overnight show of force in which troops secured strategic parts of the capital amid fears of an imminent coup.
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The coup in Fiji brings international condemnation and the threat of suspension from the Commonwealth.
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Counter-terrorism and trans-national crime will top the agenda at this week's Southwest Pacific Dialogue meeting in Adelaide, New Zealand Foreign Minister Phil Goff said.
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Fears of an imminent coup in Fiji grew on Monday as Australia and New Zealand warned their citizens to avoid travel to the island nation and South Pacific neighbors called a regional crisis meeting.
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Burundi will urge regional  leaders at a summit on Wednesday to impose sanctions against  the rebel Hutu Forces for National Liberation (FNL), blamed for  the slaughter of more than 160 Congolese Tutsi refugees in  Burundi.
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Fiji's ousted prime minister says public anger against a military coup could force the new rulers to step down.
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New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark will meet her Australian counterpart John Howard Friday amid the escalating diplomatic crisis between New Zealand and Fiji&#39;s military regime.
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New Zealand plans to seek urgent clarification from Australia about a new maritime security zone which it says stretches into its own territorial waters and even onto its coastline.
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FURTHER sexual abuse charges involving Britain&#39;s remote Pacific colony of Pitcairn Island were expected to be laid against people in Australia and New Zealand, the lead prosecutor said today.
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Excerpt from report by Fiji newspaper Fiji Sun website on 5 September  An indigenous organization is concerned that qoliqoli [traditional foreshore fishery rights] owners will be owners by name only upon the enactment of the controversial Qoliqoli Bill.
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including South Africa - had submitted proposals to host the 2011 Rugby World Cup. South Africa, will face stiff opposition
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Fiji's rebellious military commander was due to meet the country's president as a deadline neared for the government to meet a list of demands or face its fourth coup in two decades.
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Tensions rise in Fiji as Australia warns of "clear evidence" a coup is planned for the next two weeks.