Former journalist Mário Robalo, who in 1991 managed to interview Xanana Gusmão while underground, believes that independence ...

East Timor's President Xanana Gusmao appealed to the country's military and police forces Thursday to cease feuding and work together to unite the country a week after fighting flared between ...

The Southeast Asian island nation of Timor-Leste, formerly known as East Timor, will celebrate 20 ... and his hopes for the future. Xanana Gusmao, 75, spent more than two decades fighting for ...

After Indonesian dictator Suharto invaded Timor-Leste in 1975, Australian communists set up an illegal radio station, ...

East Timor is facing two crises at once ... How are the Timorese facing Covid while recovering from the floods? Kirsty Sword Gusmao - There is a high level of anxiety about the sudden increase ...

Do Amaral was occasionally brought out for propaganda purposes, including being announced as East Timor’s deputy governor in 1979. After Xanana Gusmao was captured in 1993, both he and do Amaral ...

(CNN)-- East Timor President and Nobel laureate Jose Ramos-Horta was shot twice, while Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao escaped unhurt Monday in coordinated attacks blamed on rebel troops, officials said.

Xanana Gusmão, the President of Timor-Leste and José Ramos Horta, then Minister for Foreign Affairs, made visits to France in 2003 and 2006. Timor-Leste’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, ...

East Timor's first year of freedom from Indonesia ... On October 22, Xanana Gusmao, for seven years a political prisoner in Jakarta, returned to Dili as president of the CNRT.

Pope Francis received a raucous welcome as he arrived in East Timor to celebrate its recovery from a bloody and traumatic independence battle, even as he indirectly acknowledged an abuse scandal ...