Amid civil war, East Timor was annexed by Indonesia in 1976 and declared the country’s 27th province following Portugal’s democratization and its decision to shed its colonies the year before.

East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta said on Monday the death of Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, was a tremendous loss for the world, not just Christians.

Nick Schifrin discussed the reignition of the civil war and its implications with Charles Lister of the Middle East Institute. Russian and Syrian warplanes targeted civilian areas held by ...

The latest news, analysis and opinion on East Timor. ... Assad is in Hangzhou for the opening of the event as part of his first visit to China since the start of the Syrian civil war.

East Timor President José Ramos-Horta told The Associated Press in an interview in Dili in September that there was "no possibility, under the law" that Teves would be able to remain in East ...

Archaeologists found human remains at Colonial Williamsburg, which surprisingly dated back to the Civil War rather than the Revolutionary War. AP. The graves were aligned east-west, with the head ...

Last week, the Timor-Leste NGO Forum, an umbrella organization of 400 nonprofit and civil society groups, wrote an open letter to Francis, asking him to “encourage the leaders and the people of ...

East Timor has made domestic and international commitments to scale up its share of renewable energy generation. In 2016, it was one of nearly 200 countries that signed the United Nations’ Paris ...

Pope Francis landed in East Timor, also called Timor Leste, on Sept. 9, after making visits to Indonesia and Papua New Guinea as part of a broader tour of Asia and Oceania that will also take him ...

Timor-Leste Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão, who had been imprisoned for years by Indonesia, and President José Ramos-Horta, leaders of East Timor’s independence movement, are addressing the ...

Amid civil war, East Timor was annexed by Indonesia in 1976 and declared the country’s 27th province following Portugal’s democratization and its decision to shed its colonies the year before.