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East Timor, or Timor-Leste, lost at least 102,800 people in the 1975-99 conflict with Indonesia, according to the U.N. It now has a median age of 20, according to official estimates.
This is a list of newspapers in East Timor. Newspapers are concentrated in Dili, the capital, and they are mostly published in the national Tetum language. [1] Business Timor (weekly) [2] Diario Nacional (daily) [2] Diario tempo Timor Leste (daily) [3] Diáriu Timoroman; The Dili Weekly [2] Jornal Independente (daily) [2] Jornal Nacional ...
Vote counting was underway in East Timor’s parliamentary election Sunday with two former independence fighters considered for the post of prime minister. Two main political parties — the ...
In 2021, a court in East Timor sentenced former American missionary Richard Daschbach, who was widely praised for saving lives during the nation’s independence fight, to 12 years in prison for ...
DILI (Reuters) -Pope Francis arrived on Monday in East Timor, a predominantly Catholic nation in Southeast Asia, for a three-day visit that will include an open-air celebration of Mass the Vatican ...
On 19 March, East Timor closed its borders with Indonesia as a preventative measure. [8] On 21 March, East Timor confirmed its first imported COVID-19 case. [9] The place where it started is unknown. Following this, schools were suspended on 22 March, and the Catholic Church canceled mass. A state of emergency was declared, and public ...
Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Timor-Leste. March 19 – 2022 East Timorese presidential election: Timorese are called to the polls to choose the country's president. [1] March 20 – Preliminary results show that former president José Ramos-Horta is ahead of the incumbent Francisco Guterres in the presidential election. [2]
(Reuters) -East Timor's independence was a gift to the world because it showed conflict could be resolved through negotiation, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday, the ...