East Timor set for critical poll
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East Timor is set to vote in a parliamentary poll dominated by promises to ease poverty and strengthen security.
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East Timor&#039;s president on Thursday threatened to resign after the ruling party defied his orders to oust the prime minister, deepening a political crisis in the tiny nation following weeks of bloody street battles.
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East Timor's president urged Timorese to pray for Suharto, the former Indonesian president who ordered the brutal invasion of East Timor in 1975 and who now lies critically ill in hospital.
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East Timor&#039;s president has issued an appeal for calm as thousands of supporters of ex-prime minister Mari Alkatiri prepared to camp out after rolling through the capital in a major show of strength.
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Eight candidates are set to campaign for the presidency of East Timor, an official said Saturday, as Australian troops chase a fugitive rebel some fear could destabilise the vote.
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Nobel laureate Jose Ramos-Horta has said he is one of three short-listed candidates nominated by East Timor&#039;s ruling party to become the next prime minister of the crisis-wracked nation.
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East Timor&#039;s prime minister will likely resign, his spokesman said Wednesday, as the country&#039;s president and members of the beleaguered leader&#039;s own party joined a chorus of people saying he no longer had their trust.
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Almost final results from East Timor's elections show the ruling Fretilin party leading, but with reduced support.
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Australia said it wants to withdraw its troops from East Timor as soon as possible but the timing depends on the United Nations' plans to set up a mission in the fledgling nation.
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Voters in the landlocked kingdom of Lesotho go to the polls in what is expected to be a closely fought election.
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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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JAKARTA - Security forces remain on high alert as Indonesians head to the polls in an election that could see the opposition leader become president.
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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 president of East Timor. Jose Ramos-Horta, is shot in the stomach during an attack by a rebel soldier.
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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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East Timor appeared headed for a coalition government Wednesday with most votes in last week&#39;s parliamentary polls counted but no one party set to win the majority needed to govern alone.
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Vote counting began on Sunday after the people of East Timor voted to choose a parliament that could help the young, poor nation get back on track after the euphoria of independence was shaken by communal bloodshed last year.