East Timor president wounded in rebel attack
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East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta is undergoing surgery at an Australian military base in the capital Dili after being shot in the stomach during an attack on his home by rebel soldiers, a presidential adviser said on Monday.
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Gunmen wounded President and Nobel peace laureate Jose Ramos-Horta and opened fire on a car carrying the prime minister Monday in apparently coordinated attacks against the leadership of the recently independent nation
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Rival gangs armed with machetes and stones fought in East Timor's capital late Thursday, injuring at least 13 people, witnesses and officials said. Hundreds of youths took part in the fighting in front of Guido Valadares Hospital, an Associated Press reporter at the scene said.
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A battle between rival gangs armed with machetes killed one fighter and injured five others in East Timor's capital, police and hospital officials said Thursday.
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Cuban President Fidel Castro tripped and  fractured his left knee and right arm in a tumble captured on  live television, the government said on Thursday.
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East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta was Tuesday in a serious but stable condition after surgery overnight for gunshot wounds from an assassination attempt that plunged the nation into a fresh crisis.
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Troops are scouring the jungle outside East Timor's capital for rebels blamed for an attack that seriously wounded the country's Nobel Peace prize-winning president, an official said Saturday.
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Australian troops, backed by tanks, helicopters and airplanes, have stormed the East Timor town where a rebel leader is holed up, entering his stronghold, a witness said on Sunday.
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The fugitive East Timor rebel leader attacked overnight in his mountain stronghold by an Australian-led international security force has disappeared, witnesses said Sunday.
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East Timor&#039;s president has issued an appeal for calm as thousands of supporters of ex-prime minister Mari Alkatiri prepared to camp out after rolling through the capital in a major show of strength.
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SANTA CLARA, Cuba  - Cuban President Fidel Castro,  78, injured a knee and possibly an arm on Wednesday when he  fell while descending a flight of steps after making a one-hour  speech.
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An East Timorese independence hero faced off against a former prime minister for leadership in this fledgling democracy as important parliamentary elections got under way Saturday.
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East Timor's president was in "extremely serious" but stable condition at an Australian hospital Tuesday after surgeons worked through the night to remove bullet fragments he suffered in a failed coup attempt, the hospital's administrator said.
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East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta  was in a serious but stable condition on Tuesday in an  Australian hospital, but medics were planning more surgery for  up to three gunshot wounds, a senior doctor said.
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Two people were injured in street clashes involving stone-throwing gangs and intervening Portuguese troops in East Timor's capital Dili, an officer said.
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East Timor will no longer negotiate with renegade soldiers accused of attacking the nation's two top leaders last week, the acting president warned Monday, as the first arrest was made in the case.
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Italy's ambassador to Sri Lanka and six servicemen were slightly injured on Tuesday when a delegation of diplomats led by the island's human rights minister came under rebel shelling in the restive east, officials said.