News: East Timor

We have started to collect the most important news related to East Timor in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

World news related to East Timor – overview

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• June 28th 2018 – March 4th 2014
• December 4th 2013 – March 28th 2011
• January 4th 2011 – August 30th 2009
• August 29th 2009 – July 7th 2008
• June 27th 2008 – March 28th 2008
• March 19th 2008 – January 18th 2008
• November 16th 2007 – June 27th 2007
• May 30th 2007 – March 23rd 2007
• March 7th 2007 – September 5th 2006
• September 4th 2006 – July 8th 2006
• July 8th 2006 – June 20th 2006
• June 18th 2006 – May 31st 2006
• May 30th 2006 – March 9th 2006
• February 17th 2006 – December 1st 2005

East Timor: news

Australia charges former officer in East Timor spy case

Thursday, June 28th 2018, 9:17
related countries: Aruba

The ex-intelligence officer famously raised concerns about an Australian spying operation.
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Two Bali jail fugitives captured in East Timor

Friday, June 23rd 2017, 2:12

East Timor police capture two foreigners who escaped from Bali's Kerobokan Prison by using a tunnel.
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Return to East Timor: 'I've been brought back from the dead'

Saturday, March 25th 2017, 0:17

Alberto Mohamed returns to East Timor to find his family after 32 years.
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East Timor punished for football scam

Friday, January 20th 2017, 11:47
related countries: Botswana

The national team of East Timor is found to have fielded 12 ineligible Brazilian players across as many as 36 matches after changing birth and baptism documents.
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East Timor axes Australia border treaty over oil reserves

Monday, January 9th 2017, 9:02
related countries: Australia

East Timor axes a maritime border treaty with Australia to renegotiate access to lucrative oil reserves.
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How a video helped East Timor struggle

Wednesday, November 16th 2016, 8:53
related countries: Indonesia

In November 1991, Indonesian soldiers killed hundreds of pro-independence demonstrators in East Timor
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East Timor's 12,000-year-old cave art

Tuesday, October 25th 2016, 23:01

Rock art up to 12,000 years old has been found in caves in East Timor.
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Where crocodiles cast curses

Monday, August 8th 2016, 0:56

The East Timorese government is planning to open a crocodile farm, but it goes against deeply held beliefs.
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Born to run

Tuesday, July 26th 2016, 18:17

In 2000, Agueda Amaral was the first East Timorese woman to compete at an Olympic Games.
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A brighter future

Monday, June 13th 2016, 23:36

East Timor is counting on tourism to give a boost to its economy and hoping some of the nation's darkest days will become part of a brighter future.
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East Timor PM Gusmao offers to quit

Friday, February 6th 2015, 5:53
related countries: Indonesia

East Timor's Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao - who led the nation to independence from Indonesia in 2002 - submits his resignation letter.
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'Balibo Five' deaths probe dropped

Tuesday, October 21st 2014, 1:46
related countries: Aruba

Australian police abandon a war crimes investigation into the deaths in East Timor in 1975 of the "Balibo Five" journalists, citing insufficient evidence.
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Canberra 'must seal Timor raid data'

Tuesday, March 4th 2014, 4:00
related countries: Australia

A UN court bans Australia from using documents that it seized from a lawyer representing East Timor in a commercial spying case.
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