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... Flanked by dignitaries from around the world stood Xanana Gusmao. Once a resistance fighter, he is now East Timor's prime minister, and Jose Ramos-Horta, who lived for years in exile lobbying for freedom for his country. Today, he is the president. JOSE RAMOS-HORTA: I have enjoyed it ...
... Domingos da Camara told news organizations rebel leader Alfredo Reinado and one of his men were killed in the attack on the home of Ramos Horta, while one of the president's guards also died. The manager of the Royal Darwin Hospital said Ramos Horta, 58, had been transfused with ...
... and are looking for some changes in our approach that don't have a partisan tinge to them. And the big question, I think, on Tuesday night is whether the president is just hortatory or whether he's also realistic and perhaps ready to announce some tweaking of our policy.
... the profits, is expected to be worth $7 billion over the next 20 years. Although the country faces critical challenges, new Foreign Minister Jose Ramos Horta, a 1996 Nobel Peace Prize winner, told Reuters he's confident East Timor will weather the storms to come. "So far we have disproved ...
... bloody 1999 end to its 24 years as an Indonesian territory, say 93 percent of East Timorese voters headed to the polls today. Jose Ramos-Horta, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and longtime East Timorese independence leader, applauded his people's efforts. "My work for 24 years is done," he ...
... in tomorrow's vote. National figures including rebel leader Xanana Gusmao, widely expected to become East Timor's president, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos Horta and U.N. chief administrator Sergio Vieira de Mello have toured the countryside to drum up voters and encourage partisans not to resort to ...
In our news wrap Wednesday, Israel received remains believed to be those of one of the last two hostages still in Gaza, President Trump proposed rolling back fuel efficiency standards set by the Biden administration and a dozen former FDA commissioners say they're "deeply concerned" about proposed changes that ...
... is staffed by medical professionals and maintains detailed records viewed as generally reliable by the international community. Return of Palestinian bodies in flux Twenty living hostages and the remains of 26 others have been returned to Israel since the ceasefire began in early October.Israel has been releasing 15 Palestinian ...
... body of an Israeli hostage was recovered in southern Gaza. Since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas began on Oct. 10, the remains of 24 hostages have been returned to Israel. If the latest body turned over is confirmed by Israel to be a hostage, there will still be three ...
The Red Cross transferred the remains of a hostage to Israeli troops in Gaza on Friday, the military said, hours after hundreds of mourners flocked to the funeral of a soldier whose body was turned over earlier in the week by Palestinian militants.
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