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Yahoo! News: Foreign troops needed in East Timor for at least another year: PM

Dili :: East Timor | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

East Timor wants foreign troops to stay on its soil for at least one more year as instability is still a threat to the young nation , the prime minister said Friday. Foreign troops were still needed to ensure security in the wake of a foiled rebel attack...

Tags: timor, news, foreign troops

6.1 magnitude quake rocks East Timor's capital

Dili :: East Timor | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

East Timor (AP) — A powerful undersea earthquake rocked East Timor's capital on Tuesday, sending terrified residents fleeing from homes and buildings, witnesses said...Geological Survey says a magnitude 6.1 quake struck 90 miles southeast of Dili. "Everything...

Tags: timor, earthquake, East Timor

E Timor: Who shot J R Horta?

Dili :: East Timor | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

East Timor's post-independence politics have confounded outside observers, and for the most part the Timorese themselves. Simultaneously transparent and opaque, what was thought to be a mono-cultural, impoverished,...

Tags: timor, police, Canberra Times, East Timor

16 arrested in East Timor demo

Dili :: East Timor | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

East Timorese and UN anti-riot police arrested at least 16 students Tuesday during a second day of protests at the national university against a plan to import cars for lawmakers. Around 500 students rallied outside the National University of Timor Leste...

Tags: protest, timor, police, law, National University, East Timor

E Timor police move on students

Dili :: East Timor | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

The students were demonstrating against plans by the parliament to spend $1m (�500,000) on new cars for MPs. Eyewitnesses told the BBC that local police had fired rounds of tear gas at lines of peacefully protesting students inside the grounds of the...

Tags: protest, timor, east timor, East Timorese, law, tear gas, National University of Timor-Leste, police fired, fired tear

Movie to tell story of 'Balibo Five'

Dili :: East Timor | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Photo / Getty Images Indonesia and East Timor The producer of a new political thriller about five Australia-based newsmen killed in East Timor in 1975, says the film will tell the truth about their deaths. Cameras started rolling in Darwin yesterday on...

Tags: timor, indonesia, East Timor, news

Dili mean streets now avenues of hope

Dili :: East Timor | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Government buildings in Dili, the Palacio do Governo, last month to celebrate the sixth anniversary of the Democratic Republic of East Timor...The highlight of the night was a spontaneous song by the Prime Minister, Xanana Gusmao...The first time they'd...

Tags: timor, East Timor, Dili

East Timor President Horta to return home Thursday

Dili :: East Timor | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta will return home to Dili and resume his presidential duties on Thursday, two months after nearly losing his life in an assassination attempt by rebel soldiers. Ramos-Horta, shot twice and critically wounded on February...

Tags: timor, East Timor, José Ramos-Horta

Indonesian court overturns conviction of militia leader in 1999 East Timor violence

Dili :: East Timor | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

The acquittal will likely anger human rights groups and add weight to calls for the establishment of an international tribunal to try those responsible for the violence. (AP) |

Tags: timor, militia leader, Indonesian, Supreme Court, East Timor

Shot E Timor leader meets allies

Darwin :: Australia | about 1 year ago

Credibility Credibility of 5

Jose Ramos-Horta, who is being treated in Darwin, Australia, met acting leader Fernando de Araujo for two hours, according to Dili officials. Mr Araujo said the injured head of state, who will be in hospital for several weeks more, was "very lucid"

Tags: timor, Jose Ramos Horta, Fernando de Araujo, Timor Leste, timor president

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