Indonesia closes border with East Timor
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Indonesia has temporarily closed its border with East Timor to prevent fugitives sneaking into Indonesian territory ahead of a tense lead-up to presidential elections, the military said on Monday.
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East Timor's soft laws are making it difficult to quell unrest in the country, its Prime Minister Jose Ramos-Horta said on Tuesday in an interview broadcast on Portuguese radio.
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All Indonesian airlines and others from Russia, Ukraine and Angola will be banned from flying to the European Union due to safety concerns, the European Commission said today.
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Indonesia and Exxon Mobil Corp.   have halted negotiations on the disputed Natuna D-Alpha gas  block, which is now controlled by the U.S. company, an official  at energy watchdog BPMIGAS told Reuters on Tuesday.
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Troops and police enforced a state of emergency across East Timor on Tuesday as President Jose Ramos-Horta recuperated from an assassination bid that doctors said he was lucky to survive.
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East Timor is likely to face an upsurge in anti-government protests and civil unrest this week, Australia warned in a travel advisory.
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DILI, East Timor  - About 40 prisoners escaped from a jail in East Timor on Saturday, officials said, adding to security concerns in the tiny nation as it prepares for elections following political turmoil and violence last year.
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Indonesia and Exxon Mobil Corp.  have halted negotiations on the disputed Natuna D-Alpha gas block, which is now controlled by the U.S. company, an official at energy watchdog BPMIGAS told Reuters on Tuesday.
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose  Ramos-Horta is to be East Timor&#039;s new prime minister, President  Xanana Gusmao told reporters on Saturday, a move aimed at  ending weeks of political uncertainty in Asia&#039;s newest nation.
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Egyptian security forces closed the border with the Gaza Strip yesterday nearly two weeks after the wall was first breached
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All Indonesian airlines and several from Russia, Ukraine and Angola will be banned from flying to the European Union due to safety concerns, the European Commission said Thursday.
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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 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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Iraqi and British forces in southern Iraq closed border crossings with Iran on Thursday in an attempt to choke off smuggling networks that Washington says are used to supply militant groups.
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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 during a ceremony in the capital.
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Bloomberg - Dec. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Ban Ki-moon had left the climate- change conference in Bali, Indonesia, to visit United Nations peacekeepers in East Timor when he received an urgent call to go back. Talks on a new global-warming treaty were deadlocked.
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Fierce gunbattles raged in East Timor&#039;s capital Thursday, killing at least three people and wounding more than a dozen, as international troops arrived in the tiny nation to help it quell a rebellion by disgruntled ex-soldiers.