Fiji military to move against govt on Monday: chief
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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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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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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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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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SUVA, Fiji -- Fiji's coup leader ran want ads in local newspapers Saturday to fill vacant cabinet jobs, trying to piece together a new government for the South Pacific country.
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Fiji's military chief said on Tuesday the army had taken over running the country, plunging the South Pacific island nation into its fourth coup in 20 years.
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A major clash is expected between the government and a civil servantsâ union Monday when the union pledges to launch a general strike as scheduled, despite government crackdowns on its move to demand full labor rights.
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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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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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Fiji's embattled Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase has said a military coup appears &quot;inevitable&quot; and that he expects to be arrested and detained as soldiers besieged his home and 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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Fiji's military chief says he wants the government to stand down by Monday and vows to name a new one.
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Fiji's military, which seized power in a coup, warns it will not accept criticism of the new leadership.
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Fiji&#39;s military-led regime announced Thursday it would lift emergency regulations imposed when the armed forces ousted the elected government in a December coup.
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The government was expected to announce Thursday the withdrawal of all its 600 troops from Bosnia amid opposition claims it is being forced to &quot;scratch around&quot; for extra manpower to send to Afghanistan.
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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.