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Updated: 6:00am - One of the key planners and executors of the 2000 coup says the Republic of Fiji Military Forces (RFMF) saved the country from plunging to into anarchy.

Updated: 5:50am - A 65-year-old man who allegedly raped his 6-year-old grandson in Nasinu last year appeared in the Suva High Court yesterday.

Updated: 7:03am - The Labour Party is concerned voters who aren't enrolled are being turned away from advance voting booths.

Updated: 7:00am - Thousands of passengers have been left in the lurch after a jet fuel shortage grounded dozens of domestic and international flights at Auckland Airport.

Updated: 6:50am - A protest will be held in Auckland today calling for an end to ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.

Updated: 6:20am - Heavy monsoon rain heaped new misery on Sunday on hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya stuck in makeshift camps in Bangladesh after fleeing violence in Myanmar, as authorities started a drive to force them to a new site.

Updated: 6:20am - As Rakhine state burns and Rohingya flee, Aung San Suu Kyi is preparing to address Myanmar on the crisis for the first time, a high wire act seeking to soothe global outrage without baiting an army that is again showing its teeth.

Updated: 6:15am - North Korea ignored renewed global efforts to end its nuclear threat by firing a ballistic missile over Japan for the second time in less than a month early Friday morning.

Updated: 6:00am - Hamza bin Laden, son and would-be heir of late Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, has urged Muslims around the world to join arms in Syria against “crusaders” and Shias.

Updated: 7:46am - Prime Minister and incoming COP23 president Voreqe Bainimarama reminded the ministers from around the world that there is no time left to waste in moving the climate action agenda forward.