East Timor president wounded in attack
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Rebel soldiers shot and wounded East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta and opened fire on the prime minister Monday as part of a failed coup in the recently independent nation, officials said.
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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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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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Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made a lightning visit to East Timor on Friday to pledge support after an assassination attempt on the country's president, Jose Ramos-Horta.
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Rebel soldiers attacked the home of East  Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta early on Monday and he has  been wounded in the stomach by gunfire, a military spokesman  said on Monday.
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The ambassadors of Italy and the US are slightly injured as they are caught up in a  mortar attack in eastern Sri Lanka.
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RAWALPINDI, Pakistan  - Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was wounded in a gun and suicide bomb attack after an election rally in the city of Rawalpindi, a party security official and police said.
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Urdu Times (news) Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich, who is running for president in next month's elections, was hospitalised on Friday after being hit by a projectile during a political shouting ...
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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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Authorities in East Timor impose a night-time curfew after an attack on President Jose Ramos-Horta.
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The wife of Italy's president was hit by a car as she crossed a street outside the presidential palace Thursday evening, injuring a leg and an arm, the palace said.
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Cuban President Fidel Castro fractured  his left knee and has a fissure in his right arm after a fall  captured on live television, the government said on Thursday.
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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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East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta  was in a serious but stable condition on Tuesday in an  Australian hospital, but medics were planning more surgery for  up to three gunshot wounds, a senior doctor said.
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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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East Timor rebel leader Alfredo Reinado must be &quot;neutralised&quot; after escaping an attack by crack international troops on his hideout, Australian Prime Minister John Howard said Monday.
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East Timor extended by 10 days a state of emergency imposed after assassination attempts on the president and the prime minister