New East Timor mission needs commitment
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The U.N. Security Council must be prepared to commit peacekeepers to East Timor for many years if it orders forces back to the shattered nation as expected, a U.N. envoy said Wednesday.
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East Timor could slide into renewed violence if it does not reform its security services, a think-tank says.
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East Timor's Prime Minister Jose Ramos-Horta was due to depart for a one-day visit to Kuwait to discuss humanitarian support and potential investment, his office said.
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The political leaders of unrest-plagued East Timor have pledged to work together to return peace and order to the fledgling nation.
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd jetted into East Timor Friday to lend support to the fledgling nation's efforts to stabilise and rebuild after violence last year.
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East Timor is likely to face an upsurge in anti-government protests and civil unrest this week, Australia warned in a travel advisory.
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SYDNEY - Australia is considering signing a new defence and security agreement with Indonesia to replace a treaty that was scrapped after Canberra led United Nations peacekeepers into East Timor in 1999.
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The fate of East Timor Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri, blamed by opponents for the unrest that gripped the tiny nation last month, is hanging in the balance after the president asked him to resign.
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An East Timorese who was a pro-Indonesia activist during the tiny nation&#39;s 1999 independence vote said Wednesday that Indonesia&#39;s military should be held responsible for violence occurring then.
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East Timor's parliament has approved a  state budget of nearly $350 million for 2008 that aims to  improve security and tackle poverty in Asia's youngest nation.
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Late monsoon rains have hampered the distribution of ballots for this weekend&#39;s parliamentary polls in East Timor but delivery is now going well, the UN mission said Friday.
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Nobel laureate Jose Ramos-Horta was named East Timor&#039;s new prime minister Saturday, shouldering the challenge of returning the young nation to stability after months of violence and political turmoil.
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Jose Ramos-Horta was sworn in as East Timor&#039;s new prime minister Monday, pledging to end the violence that has wracked Asia&#039;s newest nation and sent 150,000 people fleeing their homes.
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The president of East Timor. Jose Ramos-Horta, is shot in the stomach during an attack by a rebel soldier.
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East Timor counted ballots Sunday a day after the impoverished nation&#39;s first legislative election since its independence in 2002.
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Hundreds more international troops landed in East Timor as the poor and tiny nation sought to restore order and avoid slipping into all-out civil war.
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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd vowed Friday his nation's troops would stay in East Timor as long as they were needed following assassination bids on the president and prime minister this week.