Timor gangs promise mayhem on East Timor's streets
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With names like "Cold Blooded  Killers," "Provoke me and I'll Smash You" and "Beaten Black and  Blue," East Timor's youth gangs promise mayhem on streets which  not so long ago offered hope.
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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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Australia and Portugal agreed to send forces to quell violence between East Timorese troops and rebel soldiers, following an urgent appeal from the world&#039;s newest nation which said its own army cannot cope.
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East Timor's people have turned out in high numbers for three rounds of elections, but the show of democracy cannot mask mounting challenges facing Asia's newest nation five years after independence.
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DILI, East Timor, March 5 -- East Timor's president invoked emergency powers on Monday to quell unrest after hundreds of young men demanding a withdrawal of foreign troops blockaded roads with burning tires and concrete blocks. The United States issued a travel warning, and Australia said it would...
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The international security force in East Timor have begun closing in on wanted rebel leader Major Alfredo Reinado's hideout with tanks and helicopters, a witness with the renegade soldier said Wednesday.
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East Timor's military and international  forces have launched an operation against rebels hiding in  hills near the capital following an assassination attempt on  the country's president.
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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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Australian-led troops are hunting for rebels thought to have carried out attacks on East Timor's top leaders.
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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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A fugitive East Timor rebel being hunted by Australian troops is prepared to negotiate if the military operation against him is halted, one of his aides said Tuesday.
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Gangs of young men armed with machetes are roaming the streets in Kenya as post-election violence threatens to engulf the country. Horrific attacks are being reported, including the torching of a church where people who had sought refuge were burned alive.
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East Timor President Xanana Gusmao made an emotional plea for peace after weeks of violence, as the tiny country&#039;s rebel leader pressed him to oust the unpopular prime minister.
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Gangs hurled rocks at a camp housing refugees and torched buildings in East Timor&#039;s capital Wednesday, as fresh violence erupted between supporters and opponents of recently ousted Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri.
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Hard-liners urged loyalist mobs on to more violence today, after a day of mayhem in which French and Ivory Coast forces battled in the air and on the ground and machete-waving throngs hunted down French citizens in the largest city.
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Thousands of protesters demanded the ouster of East Timor&#039;s prime minister Saturday, blaming him for provoking violence and political chaos.
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A man was hacked to death and 17 others were injured in overnight gang fighting in East Timor's capital, a hospital official said Monday.