UN takes over policing in East Timor
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International police deployed to East Timor in the wake of unrest in May have formally handed over their authority to the United Nations at a ceremony in the capital.
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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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Australia's foreign minister says a UN peacekeeping force in East Timor will need more soldiers to back it up.
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East Timor declared a state of emergency Tuesday after attacks on the country's top leaders in a failed coup left the president in "extremely serious" condition with gunshot wounds
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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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Close to 2,000 guns have been rounded up in restive East Timor in an ongoing effort to get firearms off the country's violent streets, the head of the multinational forces said.
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Australia will send an extra 50 police  to East Timor as a multinational force tries to quell violence  between feuding army and police units and gangs of youths,  Prime Minister John Howard said on Sunday.
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The United Nations mission in East Timor  may be extended by another five years from 2008 to oversee the  revamp of the young nation&#39;s fragile security forces, its chief  said on Monday.
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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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Indonesia shuts its border with East Timor after rebels capture weapons in a raid on an East Timorese police post.
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United Nations, Oct 1 (PTI) The United Nations has called for sending an international police force to stop abuses in Sudan&#39;s trouble-torn region of Darfur where war crimes have probably occurred on large scale.
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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 United Nations point man in East Timor said Thursday he was in favour of extending the global body's stabilisation mission in the troubled fledgling nation.
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East Timor&#039;s president appealed for calm between ethnic gangs as international troops said they had succeeded in disarming the fighters who were pushing the tiny country into chaos.
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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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The Security Council set up a new UN mission for restive East Timor, including up to 1,608 police personnel, for at least six months to help restore security and help steer the tiny Pacific territory toward next year's polls.
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In the wake of Mondayâs twinned attacks on the president and prime minister of East Timor, the United Nations and East Timorese police have begun a joint investigation.