SUVA, Fiji -- Coup leader George Speight was charged Friday with treason, a crime that carries a maximum sentence of death, for leading the raid on Parliament that plunged...

SUVA, Fiji -- A second hostage crisis erupted Saturday in Fiji as armed rebels supporting coup leader George Speight seized 30 soldiers, police and government officials in a police station outside the capital. A defiant Speight said there would...

SUVA, Fiji -- Soldiers opened fire today on a car carrying coup leader George Speight, putting bullet holes in the side but causing no injuries, when the rebel boss ventured out of parliament where he has been holding...

...in Fiji's parliament complex plan to release them this weekend, the rebel leader said today. The rebel leader, George Speight, said that after he releases the hostages, Fiji's tribal chiefs will decide what the next step should be in this...

...retaliation against the violent arrest of a coup leader who may be charged with treason, the military said. Coup leader George Speight was arrested late Wednesday at a military checkpoint along with four others. Hours later, troops fired tear gas...

...the rebels to free the government hostages they have been holding for three weeks. The supporters of rebel leader George Speight were armed with sugarcane-cutting knives and other weapons when they went on their evening rampage in the capital...

...refused today to recognize the authority of the country's new military ruler and called on the army to replace him. George Speight -- who led Fiji's coup attempt May 19 and holds more than 30 hostages, including Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry...

...deposed government being held hostage in parliament. Military commander Commodore Frank Bainimarama and rebel leader George Speight met Saturday to look over the final draft of an accord that negotiators had earlier said both sides had agreed to...

...by armed rebels, in an apparent attempt to defuse the crisis. President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara said rebel leader George Speight and the six gunmen who stormed parliament on May 19 would probably be granted immunity from prosecution for their...

...day after a deal was reached to end Fiji's 53-day hostage crisis. Under the agreement signed by rebel leader George Speight and the military, the captives are to be freed Thursday, when the Great Council of Chiefs will convene from around...