House burning revives East Timor fears
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The house, on the outskirts of East Timor&#039;s capital, was turned into a mere shell. The six people inside -- five women and a child -- were little more than burnt and broken skeletons.
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Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer fears aid workers in tsunami-stricken Aceh will be caught in crossfire between separatist rebels and the Indonesian military, it was reported.
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Rebel soldiers attacked the home of East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta early on Monday and he has been wounded in the stomach by gunfire, a military spokesman said on Monday.
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Thick acrid smoke rising from stoves and fires inside homes causes around 1.6m deaths a year in developing countries, say experts.
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Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made a lightning visit to East Timor on Friday to pledge support after an assassination attempt on the country's president, Jose Ramos-Horta.
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Gangs hurled rocks at a camp housing refugees and torched buildings in East Timor&#039;s capital Wednesday, as fresh violence erupted between supporters and opponents of recently ousted Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri.
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Rebel soldiers attacked the home of East  Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta early on Monday and he has  been wounded in the stomach by gunfire, a military spokesman  said on Monday.
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East Timor&#039;s resurgent coffee industry, which supplies high-quality organic beans to companies such as Starbucks, has been badly hurt by a wave of violence in the capital, officials said Thursday.
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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&#039;s former prime minister Mari Alkatiri has urged thousands of supporters to take their fight to the ballot box amid hopes of an end to the political crisis paralysing the country.
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Secretary of State Colin L. Powell reached out to Indonesia yesterday to accelerate its dealing with human rights violations committed during 1999 violence in East Timor that killed an estimated 1,500 people.
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A strong earthquake rattled East Timor on Wednesday, and an Indonesian monitoring agency said it had the potential to trigger a tsunami Â but there were no immediate reports of large waves.
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East Timor's leader urges his countrymen to pray for and forgive ailing former Indonesian leader, Suharto
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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.
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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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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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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.