Fiji military surrounds PM's office
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Troops tightened their stranglehold on the Fijian capital Suva, surrounding the prime minister's office and mounting roadblocks after vowing to topple the government unless it quits.
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SUVA -- Fiji's military leader said today he had seized control of the country from the elected government and dismissed the prime minister. Commodore Frank Bainimarama told a news conference that he had briefly assumed the powers of the president and was using them to dismiss Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase. He said he would soon surrender presidential powers back to ...
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Deposed Fiji Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase, escorted by armed soldiers, was flown out of the capital Suva to his home island on Wednesday, a day after the South Pacific nation's fourth coup in 20 years.
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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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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 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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A faction of the Thai military says it has overthrown Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, with soldiers entering his offices and tanks surrounding the building.
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Troops in Fiji have seized the weapons of the island nation's only armed police unit amid soaring tensions over a threatened military coup.
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East Timor's prime minister met Tuesday with hundreds of soldiers whose dismissal earlier this year sparked fierce gunbattles in the capital, and the eventual installation of a new government.
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Fiji PM Laisenia Qarase is to meet military leader Frank Bainimarama, for talks aimed at averting a coup.
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Fiji needs to get rid of its reputation as a nation with a "coup culture", its current military leader says.
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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 chief said on Tuesday the army had taken over running the country, while the elected prime minister was confined to his home in the South Pacific island nation that is undergoing its fourth coup in 20 years.
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Powerful tribal and church leaders in Fiji express growing opposition to Tuesday's military 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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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 military chief, who last week led a bloodless but strongly-opposed coup in the South Pacific nation, said on Monday more than 300 people had applied to fill cabinet posts in a military-appointed interim government.