East Timor Extends Emergency
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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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Fighting between disgruntled former soldiers and the military left at least two people dead in East Timor on Tuesday, as Australia and New Zealand offered to provide troops to the tiny nation to help restore calm.
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Hundreds of additional Australian troops have landed in Dili to boost an international peacekeeping force sent to quell violence and restore order in East Timor.
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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'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 President Jose Ramos-Horta was Tuesday in a serious but stable condition after surgery overnight for gunshot wounds from an assassination attempt that plunged the nation into a fresh crisis.
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A state of civil emergency in the rebellion-hit Indonesian province of Aceh has been formally extended by six month, as the country's president pledged to end violence there without foreign help.
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International troops in East Timor search for Maj Alfredo Reinado, who escaped during a raid on Sunday.
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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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Mobs armed with swords and axes rampaged through the capital of East Timor as another day of violence pushed one of the world&#039;s newest and poorest nations deeper into chaos.
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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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Ukraineâs political crisis escalated ahead of a key court session today to probe the disputed presidential electionâs validity, with an eastern province scheduling a referendum on autonomy and the opposition threatening to tighten a blockade against
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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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The aftermath of the latest mission to catch East Timorese rebel leader Alfredo Reinado
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Women and children ran screaming from their homes Saturday as renegade militias lit dozens of houses ablaze in East Timor&#039;s capital Saturday, even as foreign troops worked to stem violence that threatens to split the tiny nation apart.
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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.
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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.