East Timor president threatens to resign
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East Timor President Xanana Gusmao said on  Thursday he would step down if the country&#039;s prime minister  refuses to take responsibility for a weeks-long crisis in which  the country has been racked by violence.
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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 will no longer negotiate with renegade soldiers accused of attacking the nation's two top leaders last week, the acting president warned Monday, as the first arrest was made in the case.
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East Timor&#039;s prime minister said Monday he was ready to resign to help end weeks of unrest and political turmoil in the tiny nation.
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PALESTINIAN prime minister Ahmed Qurie has again threatened to resign over differences with leader Yasser Arafat ahead of a meeting of donor countries who help fund the Palestinian Authority, officials said today.
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East Timor's Prime Minister Jose Ramos-Horta formally announces he will run for the presidency in April's polls.
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LIMA, Peru  - Peruvian authorities on Monday  threatened to storm a police station seized on New Year's Day  by an armed group demanding the president's resignation, and  warned residents to get out of the area.
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East Timor's president urged Timorese to pray for Suharto, the former Indonesian president who ordered the brutal invasion of East Timor in 1975 and who now lies critically ill in hospital.
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East Timor&#039;s Nobel prize-winning foreign minister resigned in protest Sunday after the country&#039;s ruling party ignored demands to fire the prime minister over accusations he provoked bloody unrest.
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The rebel East Timor military leader who escaped from jail earlier this week appeared on television and criticized the country's government.
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The president of East Timor. Jose Ramos-Horta, is shot in the stomach during an attack by a rebel soldier.
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East Timor's police chief and his two deputies have resigned but no reason was given, the interior minister of the troubled nation said.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia threatened to resign yesterday for the second time in three months, saying he lacked the authority to carry out reforms, Arab press reports said.
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A union leader threatened Tuesday to extend a four-day nationwide strike in Nigeria that has helped push world oil prices to record highs.
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DILI, East Timor -- Rebel soldiers shot and critically wounded East Timor's president and opened fire on the prime minister Monday in a failed coup attempt in the recently independent nation. A top rebel leader was killed during one of the attacks.
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Portugal&#39;s prime minister and his cabinet may offer to resign on Saturday, a day after snap elections were called, news reports said.
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East Timor's president was in "extremely serious" but stable condition at an Australian hospital Tuesday after surgeons worked through the night to remove bullet fragments he suffered in a failed coup attempt, the hospital's administrator said.