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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 ...
A man who was holding hostages inside a California office building for more than 15 hours was shot and killed by the FBI early Wednesday, police said. The hostages were found unharmed inside the downtown Bakersfield building that houses a bank and a school district office, the Bakersfield Police Department ...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A gunman who killed at least six people in the streets of Kyiv Saturday before taking hostages and barricading himself in a nearby supermarket has been shot dead by police, Ukrainian officials said. The head of Ukraine's Interior Ministry, Ihor Klymenko, said in a statement on ...
Elizabeth Tsurkov, a Russian-Israeli doctoral student at Princeton University, was conducting research in Baghdad in 2023 when she was kidnapped by an Iran-linked militia and held in captivity for more than 900 days. Her release last September followed a high-stakes international push. Amna Nawaz speaks with Tsurkov for her first American television interview.
In our news wrap Monday, at least six people are presumed dead after a private business jet crashed in Maine during the weekend's snowstorm, Israeli officials say they've recovered the final hostage remains in Gaza and China’s top military ranks are in turmoil after its most senior general is being investigated for what's being called...
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