Military 'takes control of Fiji'
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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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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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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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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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A military commander threatening to topple Fiji's government said Sunday he was planning to appoint an interim civilian administration and that elections would be held sometime later to restore democracy.
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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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SUVA, Fiji -- Fiji's military overthrew the elected government yesterday after weeks of threats, locking down the capital and putting the prime minister under house arrest in the fourth coup in the South Pacific country in 19 years.
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Fijian soldiers take up positions at the headquarters of the armed police unit, amid fears of a coup.
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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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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 is to be immediately suspended from the Commonwealth following a military coup there earlier this week, ministers at an emergency meeting of the grouping in London have announced.
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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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Sri Lankan troops take control of a key area in the north-east held by Tamil Tiger rebels, the military says.
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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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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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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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Fiji's deposed prime minister Laisenia Qarase is facing arrest if he returns to the capital Suva following last week's military coup, the armed forces was reported saying.