Australian troops land in East Timor
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Crack Australian troops landed in East Timor as new fighting between the military and rebel soldiers forced thousands to flee the worst violence in the independent nation&#039;s history.
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Australia's top military commander on Wednesday urged rebel East Timorese soldiers to surrender as Australian commandos continue hunting them following an attack last week on the country's leadership.
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Australia wants to keep around 650 Australian troops in troubled East Timor even though the United Nations envisages a much smaller international force, the foreign minister said.
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East Timor handed over security to Australian troops in the capital to restore order in the streets and stop a bloodbath between the Timorese military and rebel soldiers.
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The East Timorese government will hand over responsibility for security in the capital Dili to Australian troops, Foreign Minister Jose Ramos-Horta told AFP in an interview.
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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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Three planeloads of Australian troops will today leave for Solomon Islands, in a show of force directed at rebels around Honiara. The Federal Government has ordered an infantry company from Townsville to leave
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Australian commandos arrived in chaotic  East Timor on Thursday, while raging gunbattles in the capital  killed at least three people and forced residents to huddle in  their homes.
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Australia will send an extra 50 police  to East Timor as a multinational force tries to quell violence  between feuding army and police units and gangs of youths,  Prime Minister John Howard said on Sunday.
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Australia vows to help safeguard democracy in East Timor after attacks on the president and prime minister.
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Fierce gunbattles raged in East Timor&#039;s capital Thursday, killing at least three people and wounding more than a dozen, as international troops arrived in the tiny nation to help it quell a rebellion by disgruntled ex-soldiers.
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Armored U.N. vehicles guarded East Timor's leaders Tuesday under a state of emergency declared after rebel soldiers critically wounded the Nobel Peace Prize-winning president and fired at the prime minister's convoy.
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Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made  a lightning visit to East Timor's locked-down capital Dili on  Friday in a show of strength after a double assassination  attempt on the fledgling nation's leadership.
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Indonesia shuts its border with East Timor after rebels capture weapons in a raid on an East Timorese police post.
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Troops and police enforced a state of emergency across East Timor on Tuesday as President Jose Ramos-Horta recuperated from an assassination bid that doctors said he was lucky to survive.
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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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Australia rushed troops into East Timor to help enforce a security clampdown a day after assassination attempts on the president and prime minister.