East Timor leaders attacked; president shot
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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 blamed on rebel troops, officials said.
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GAZA CITY -- Gunmen fired on the Palestinian foreign minister's convoy yesterday, and militants launched mortar shells at President Mahmoud Abbas's office in a daylong wave of factional violence that killed three people.
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East Timor athletes training for the Olympics face obstacles that range from a lack of cash to buy even basic equipment to sporadic gang violence and fears of chaos following an assassination attempt against President Jose Ramos-Horta.
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East Timor's prosecutor-general said on Wednesday he would issue arrest warrants for 18 people believed to be involved in assassination attempts on the Southeast Asian nation's president and prime minister.
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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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East Timor was to issue arrest warrants for 18 suspects on Wednesday after assassination attempts on the prime minister and President Jose Ramos-Horta, who underwent further surgery on multiple gunshot wounds.
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East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta was Tuesday in serious but stable condition following overnight surgery for bullet wounds sustained in an assassination bid, a doctor said.
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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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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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Gunmen opened fire on former Iraqi governing council president Ahmed Chalabi&#39;s convoy on Wednesday, wounding two of his bodyguards, the politician and his aides said.
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Florindo de Jesus Brites described watching in horror as pro-Indonesian militias surrounded a houseful of refugees and opened fire, killing 12 &#151; one of the first public testimonies about East Timor's bloody break for independence in 1999.
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Gangs of youths allied to feuding East  Timor police or army units went on the rampage in parts of the  capital on Saturday, torching houses and vehicles as Australian  and Malaysian peacekeeping troops stepped up patrols.
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East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta was shot and seriously wounded Monday by rebel soldiers in an assassination attempt that plunged the fledgling nation into a fresh crisis.
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East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta on Monday said it was police personnel who shot dead two activists during campaign rallies for a new party headed by former East Timor president Xanana Gusmao.
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East Timor's ex-prime minister Mari Alkatiri has been questioned by the prosecutor-general's office over allegations he authorised the arming of a hit squad tasked with eliminating his rivals.
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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&#039;s president extended his emergency powers and warned of possible early elections amid fresh fears of violence as thousands of supporters of the ex-premier massed on the edge of the capital.