SUVA, Fiji -- The would-be defense counsel for Fijian coup leader George Speight ... a Singapore-born ethnic Indian, came to Fiji from the United States to defend Speight against a charge of ...

SUVA - Fiji coup leader George Speight on Tuesday began ... said in an editorial on Tuesday that Speight's guilty plea meant the truth behind the May 2000 coup that overthrew the country's first ...

After floating in political limbo for 10 weeks, Fiji finally has a new civilian government, but it is unelected, racially based and contains only one ethnic Indian. After floating in political ...

Fiji's army has at last halted Mr George Speight's relentless seizure of the country. The hostage-taker was arrested late last night near his new base just outside Suva when he insisted on passing ...

Officials in Fiji were arguing today over where to hold a hearing on treason charges against coup leader George ... by Speight’s coup in which Fijian nationalists looted and torched Indian ...

A group of Fijian tribal chiefs have met coup leader George Speight to pressure him to end his rebellion and release the hostages he has been holding for three weeks. The meeting came as Fiji's ...

The man behind the 2000 coup in Fiji, George Speight, and the head of the mutineers, former soldier Shane Stevens, have been granted presidential pardons. In a statement, the Fiji Correction ...

Mahendra Chaudhry was Fiji's first Prime Minister of Indian ancestry ... after a civilian coup backed by a faction of the military and led by George Speight stormed parliament.

Fiji military soldiers and supporters of coup leader George Speight exchanged gunfire at the parliamentary complex early this morning. Some of the rebels were reportedly injured in the shooting.

Suva - A treason trial against George Speight and other coup plotters is now likely to be determined in Fiji's High Court which on Friday granted them a writ of habeas corpus. This means that Speight ...

FIJI'S coup plotters tightened their grip on power yesterday, jubilant over the complete capitulation to their demands and scornful of mounting world condemnation. George Speight stands beside the ...

FIJI COUP: George Speight and his supporters say Fiji is headed for civil war. 300 protesting landowners gathered around barracks and shut down a power station. Elsewhere troops have handed over a ...