East Timor at risk of renewed violence
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East Timor risks lapsing into civil conflict if divisions between police and army forces are not resolved, a security watchdog cautioned Friday, calling on the government and United Nations to act quickly.
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East Timorese voted on Saturday in a parliamentary election that could put the impoverished, young country on a new path after communal violence last year.
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The violence in Guinea could worsen and spill over into a bloody civil war, an international think tank warns.
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East Timor athletes training for the Olympics face obstacles that range from a lack of cash to buy even basic equipment to sporadic gang violence and fears of chaos following an assassination attempt against President Jose Ramos-Horta.
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East Timor President and Nobel laureate Jose Ramos-Horta was shot twice, while Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao escaped unhurt Monday in coordinated attacks on their homes allegedly by rebel troops, officials said.
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Angelita Gonzales, heading into the ninth month of her seventh pregnancy, has been sleeping on the floor of a basketball court for weeks. When the labor pains come, &quot;I don&#039;t know where I&#039;ll go,&quot; said the distraught housewife, one of tens of thousands who fled their homes in East Timor&#039;s capital when violence began last month.
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DILI, East Timor -- Rebel soldiers shot and critically wounded East Timor's president and opened fire on the prime minister Monday in a failed coup attempt in the recently independent nation. A top rebel leader was killed during one of the attacks.
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Indonesia and East Timor  announced plans on Tuesday to create a joint commission in  hopes of putting behind them a 1999 rampage in which Indonesian  gangs killed about 1,000 East Timorese.
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East Timor&#039;s President Xanana Gusmao is heading to Indonesia to meet President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for talks on the security situation here following a wave of deadly street violence.
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East Timor President and Nobel laureate Jose Ramos-Horta was shot twice, while Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao escaped unhurt Monday in coordinated attacks blamed on rebel troops, officials said.
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International troops appeared to have quelled violence in East Timor&#039;s capital after sword-wielding youths battled in the streets and torched buildings and cars.
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Is the country better prepared to prevent a repeat of last August's deadly crisis?
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UN commissioners heading a special inquiry into deadly violence that rocked East Timor this year have arrived for their first visit to check on progress so far, the UN said.
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In 2002, East Timor emerged from years of unrest to be hailed by the international community as its youngest member.
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Former East Timor Prime Minister Mari  Alkatiri is suspected of arming civilians during the recent  violence in Asia's newest nation and cannot leave Dili, the  country's attorney general said on Thursday.
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Australian-led troops are hunting for rebels thought to have carried out attacks on East Timor's top leaders.
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Australia said on Saturday it would  contribute up to 130 police to a new U.N. mission in East  Timor, in addition to troops sent to restore order after a wave  of violence in the fledgling nation three months ago.