2 dead in East Timor violence
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Hundreds of rampaging youths torched dozens of houses and clashed across East Timor on Thursday, leaving at least two people dead, the U.N. said, in violence sparked by the appointment of independence hero Xanana Gusmao as prime minister.
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An Australian peacekeeper kills an East Timorese civilian during a clash in a refugee camp in Dili.
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Fighting and looting erupted in East Timor&#039;s capital on Tuesday as its leaders held urgent meetings to find a way out of the worst crisis in the young nation&#039;s seven-year history.
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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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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 extended by 10 days a state of emergency imposed after assassination attempts on the president and the prime minister
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An Australian soldier opened fire on a group of East Timorese attacking him with steel arrows on Friday, killing one of the youths and critically wounding two, government and hospital officials said.
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New looting and gang fights has erupted in the East Timor capital Dili, leaving homes and buildings in flames just 100 metres (yards) from the presidential palace, an AFP reporter witnessed.
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East Timor President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jose Ramos-Horta was wounded in a pre-dawn attack on his home Monday morning, an army spokesman said.
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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 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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Two people were killed after an explosion hit a rally in support of foreign peacekeepers, prompting government troops to fire into a crowd of thousands, witnesses said.
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Indonesia and East Timor  announced plans on Tuesday to create a joint commission in  hopes of putting behind them a 1999 rampage in which Indonesian  gangs killed about 1,000 East Timorese.
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Counting was underway across East Timor on Sunday, a day after peaceful legislative elections were held for the first time since the country&#39;s independence in 2002.
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East Timor risks erupting in violence again if its government and the UN fail to quickly reform the country's security forces, which remain vulnerable to political abuse, a think-tank warned Friday.
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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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