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 SUVA, Fiji (AP) - Soldiers fired flares and set up checkpoints in a late-night show of force in Fiji's capital, hours after the country's elected leader and its military commander ended talks aimed at averting a coup without achieving a breakthrough.
The military said the action that started at midnight Wednesday and continued for three hours was a training exercise to ready troops against any possible intervention by foreign forces in the country's high-simmering political crisis.
Military spokesman Maj. Neumi Leweni said about 500 soldiers were involved in the exercise. Some 3,000 reservists have been called to barracks in recent days as coup tensions escalated.
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