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SUVA, Fiji (AP) - Vowing not to repeat "mistakes" of the past, Fiji's military ruler says his South Pacific nation won't bow to international pressure and hold democratic elections just to appease its critics.

SUVA, Fiji (AP) - Fiji could hold elections to return to democracy within months if there was the political will to do so. That's what New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters said after meeting with Fiji's coup leader and election officials.

SUVA, Fiji (AP) - Fiji's military government has defied a High Court order and deported the Australian publisher of the South Pacific country's leading newspaper.

SUVA, Fiji (AP) - The U.S. has urged Fiji's military-backed government to keep its promise to hold elections next year to return the South Pacific nation to democracy.

SUVA, Fiji (AP) - International pressure has mounted on Fiji's military-led government. A new round of emergency rule has been declared by coup leader Commodore Frank Bainimarama in response to what he called destabilization efforts by an ousted Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase.

SUVA, Fiji (AP) - Fiji's military ruler has accused the US ambassador of spreading misleading information about his coup. Commodore Frank Bainimarama didn't threaten to kick out Ambassador Larry Dinger.

SUVA, Fiji (AP) - Fiji says it will ask China for a substantial loan for infrastructure projects. International donors have threatened to slash aid to Fiji following a bloodless coup in the impoverished South Pacific nation.

SUVA, Fiji (AP) - Fiji's military ruler challenged New Zealand today to find further sanctions to impose on his coup-installed regime after he threw out the neighboring country's top diplomat.

SUVA, Fiji (AP) - The military leader who seized power in Fiji in a coup last year says elections to restore democracy to the South Pacific country could be held in early 2009.

SUVA, Fiji (AP) - Fiji's military regime has accused Australian and New Zealand envoys of being linked to a mutiny plot against the armed forces chief before he seized power in a coup last year.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - Fiji is expelling New Zealand's top diplomat in the island nation following tensions over Fiji's military coup in December.

SUVA, Fiji Fiji may lose 170 (m) million dollars of European Union funds for restructuring its ailing sugar industry if the military-backed government delays returning the country to democracy.

SUVA, Fiji The European Union says Fiji's military-led government will hold democratic elections by March of 2009.

SUVA, Fiji Fiji's military regime has suspended all further meetings of the South Pacific nation's powerful council of indigenous chiefs.

SUVA, Fiji Fiji's military ruler says soldiers can no longer investigate crimes.

SUVA, Fiji The United States has stepped up pressure on Fiji's military government.

SUVA, Fiji An investigative team examining last year's coup in Fiji for South Pacific leaders says the country's military commander should resign immediately as prime minister.