DILI, March 6 (Reuters) - The capital of tiny East Timor was quiet but tense on Tuesday, a day after thousands of supporters of rebel leader Alfredo Reinado burnt tyres and threw stones to protest a ...

Dili these days is a hectic place. With independence less than two months away, East Timor’s capital is in a spin organizing fireworks, cleaning its streets and preparing for a huge contingent of ...

Upon his arrival in the Catholic island of East Timor on Monday, Pope Francis entrusted the new country to the Blessed Virgin Mary, “I entrust East Timor and all its people to the protection of the ...

DILI, East Timor (AP) -- Renegade militias lit dozens of houses ablaze in East Timor's capital Saturday, sending women and children screaming from their homes. Civilian militias armed with machetes ...

DILI, East Timor, May 30 -- East Timor's president assumed emergency national security powers Tuesday after machete-wielding mobs torched homes and ransacked buildings in the capital and desperate ...

DILI, East Timor, May 31 -- Machete-wielding youths battled in East Timor's capital Wednesday amid burning and looting, as more foreign troops arrived to bolster an Australian-led security force ...