Refugee crisis and internal tensions dog East Timor
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Delvina da Costa complained of squalid conditions and a shortage of food in the refugee camp where she has lived for almost two years, but the prospect of returning to her old neighborhood in Dili fills her with dread.
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International police and troops in East   Timor were searching on Thursday for rebel leader Major Alfredo   Reinado after a mass jailbreak raised serious concern about   fragile security in the fledgling nation.
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Temporary resumption of fuel and food shipments to territory comes amid warnings of humanitarian crisis
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East Timor risks erupting in violence again if its government and the UN fail to quickly reform the country's security forces, which remain vulnerable to political abuse, a think-tank warned Friday.
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Tense calm prevailed in the capital of East Timor as Australian troops took control of security to stop a bloodbath between the Timorese military and rebel soldiers.
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Peacekeepers have fired tear gas to stop fighting at a refugee camp in the East Timorese capital of Dili, in the latest unrest to hit the tiny territory, eye-witnesses said.
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Recovery and aid efforts are daunting challenges throughout much of Asia in the wake of Sunday&#39;s tsunami, but in Sri Lanka and Sumatra&#39;s Aceh province those tasks are severely complicated by years of unrest.
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The international force in East Timor closed in Wednesday on wanted rebel leader Major Alfredo Reinado, but the renegade has vowed a fight to the death.
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East Timor's leader says international peacekeepers are partly to blame for the escape of dozens of prisoners.
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Fresh fighting between rival gangs left dozens of people wounded in East Timor on Saturday, authorities said, and the government hailed a U.N. Security Council decision to authorize 1,600 international police to help restore stability.
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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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East Timor's newly installed Prime Minister Jose Ramos-Horta has offered a weapons amnesty to prevent a repeat of communal clashes which left 21 dead and displaced 150,000 two months ago.
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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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East Timor could slide into renewed violence if it does not reform its security services, a think-tank says.
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An estimated 152,000 East Timorese who fled their homes in the wake of violence in May remain in camps because they are too afraid to return home, the UN humanitarian coordinator here said.
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East Timor's prime minister met Tuesday with hundreds of soldiers whose dismissal earlier this year sparked fierce gunbattles in the capital, and the eventual installation of a new government.
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The capital of tiny East Timor was quiet but tense on Tuesday, a day after thousands of supporters of rebel leader Alfredo Reinado burned tires and threw stones to protest a raid by international troops on the fugitive's hideout.