I am thoroughly disillusioned with the so-called international community’: East Timor’s President Jose Ramos-Horta.

DILI, East Timor Youths with machetes, slingshots and spears rampaged across East Timor's capital Saturday, attacking people, burning houses and deepening a crisis ...

East Timor’s declaration of independence in November 1975 was swiftly followed by invasion and decades of occupation.

DILI, March 6 (Reuters) - The capital of tiny East Timor was quiet but tense on Tuesday, a day after thousands of supporters of rebel leader Alfredo Reinado burnt tyres and threw stones to protest a ...

DILI, East Timor (AP) -- Renegade militias lit dozens of houses ablaze in East Timor's capital Saturday, sending women and children screaming from their homes. Civilian militias armed with machetes ...

Diligence in East Timor has updates from the capital city Dili, where international police have figured out a strategy to deal with gang fights, usually involving small rocks and stones... Dili-gence ...

Upon his arrival in the Catholic island of East Timor on Monday, Pope Francis entrusted the new country to the Blessed Virgin Mary, “I entrust East Timor and all its people to the protection of the ...

DILI, East Timor, May 27 -- Thousands of people in East Timor's capital fled Saturday to churches, schools and other sanctuaries after surging violence between factions inside the security forces this ...

Missionaries first brought the Catholic faith to the island of Timor, off the northern coast of Australia, in 1515. East Timor’s President José Ramos-Horta and Cardinal Virgílio do Carmo da ...

On April 17, 1999, before his house was destroyed, before his eyes were permanently shaded by sorrow, Manuel Carrascalao stood in his driveway and said goodbye to his son. He was on his way to the ...

DILI, East Timor, May 30 -- East Timor's president assumed emergency national security powers Tuesday after machete-wielding mobs torched homes and ransacked buildings in the capital and desperate ...