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Bangladesh’s U-20 women’s football team stormed into a commanding position in the AFC Women’s U-20 Asian Cup qualifiers with ...
From Guatemala to East Timor to Yemen, the US has a pattern of obfuscating and aiding crimes against humanity.
It’s been 20 years since Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor) declared its independence from Indonesia, and the nation has undergone remarkable transformation since then. Once a province of Indonesia, ...
During a protest march to the Santa Cruz cemetery after a memorial service for an independence supporter, Indonesian troops opened fire, killing 271 people. In 2015, Marco Silva spoke to British ...
A small half-island country about the size of Montenegro, East Timor has turquoise waters lapping onto white-sand beaches and ...
Nearly half of East Timor’s population —- packed a seaside park Tuesday for Pope Francis’ final Mass, held on the same field where St. John Paul II prayed 35 years ago.
DILI, East Timor (AP) — When the Vatican acknowledged in 2022 that the Nobel Peace Prize-winning, East Timorese independence hero Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo had sexually abused young boys, it ...
East Timor is still more an idea than a reality--surviving, for the moment, on the kindness of friends. A former Portuguese colony forcibly annexed by Indonesia in 1975, the tiny state became ...
East Timor has become a stable democracy after securing independence in 2002. But its finances are precarious, and nearly half of its people live in poverty. By Sui-Lee Wee and Ulet Ifansasti The ...
East Timor has become a stable democracy after securing independence in 2002. But its finances are precarious, and nearly half of its people live in poverty. By Sui-Lee Wee and Ulet Ifansasti The ...