East Timor President Shot, Wounded
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Gunmen wounded President and Nobel peace laureate Jose Ramos-Horta and opened fire on a car carrying the prime minister Monday in apparently coordinated attacks against the leadership of the recently independent nation
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East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta was  shot and critically wounded at his home in Dili on Monday in an  assassination attempt by rebel soldiers that analysts said  could spark renewed violence and political chaos in the tiny  nation.
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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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Unidentified gunmen on motorcycles shot at a crowd of supporters of fired Ecuadorean lawmakers, injuring two people on Tuesday and escalating violence in a feud between Congress and the president, witnesses said on Tuesday.
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Guinea-Bissau&#39;s army chief of staff and former interim president, General Verissimo Correia Seabra, was killed Wednesday during unrest by mutinous soldiers in the former Portuguese
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BAIDOA, Somalia  - One person was killed and   several others wounded when a car exploded outside Somalia's   parliament in Baidoa on Monday in an assassination attempt on   President Abdullahi Yusuf, Somalia's foreign minister said.
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East Timor declared a state of emergency Tuesday after rebel attacks on the country's top leaders left the president in "extremely serious" condition with gunshot wounds.
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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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Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made a lightning visit to East Timor's locked-down capital Dili on Friday in a show of strength after a double assassination attempt on the fledgling nation's leadership.
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East Timor&#039;s President Xanana Gusmao has welcomed Australian Prime Minister John Howard in Dili, thanking the Australian leader for the deployment of his country&#039;s peacekeepers.
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Rival gangs armed with machetes and stones fought in East Timor's capital late Thursday, injuring at least 13 people, witnesses and officials said. Hundreds of youths took part in the fighting in front of Guido Valadares Hospital, an Associated Press reporter at the scene said.
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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'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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A battle between rival gangs armed with machetes killed one fighter and injured five others in East Timor's capital, police and hospital officials said Thursday.
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Jose Ramos-Horta undergoes surgery at Australian military base after rebels shoot him in the stomach
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The U.N. Security Council  condemned "in the strongest possible terms" the shooting attack  that badly wounded East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta on  Monday and urged the nation to stay calm.
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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.