A video of people gathered for Pope Francis’ visit to East Timor in 2024 was shared with false captions saying that it showed ...

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The clip, captured at night from an elevated position, showed thousands of people walking alongside a long line of slow-moving cars, trucks and buses.

On October 19, the Indonesian People's Consultative Assembly voted to accept the results of the August 30 referendum in which close to 80 percent of East Timor's population had voted to separate ...

In 1999, after 25 years of Indonesian rule, the people of East Timor went to the polls to vote in a referendum offering Independence or self-autonomy. The resistance and protracted guerrilla war that ...

joy and enthusiasm of your people", the pontiff noted. The pope's visit to East Timor is part of a 12-day, four-country tour across Southeast Asia and Oceania - the longest trip of his pontificate.

The developing nation is thought to hold deposits of copper, gold, zinc and manganese, as well as rare earths and other ...

During Indonesia's occupation of East Timor, thousands of children were separated from their families and taken to Indonesia. One project seeks to reunite these "Stolen Children." NGO worker Raisa ...

Access to electricity is a modern development for many of East Timor’s 1.3 million people, after much of the country’s infrastructure was razed by Indonesian forces during the war for ...

Human rights concerns in East Timor were clearly de-emphasized; Dutch business people traveling with her completed some $800 million worth of contracts. Also in September, Australian Prime ...

The resulting circular economy for plastics will bring new opportunities for employment and entrepreneurship while improving the natural beauty of Timor-Leste and the health and safety for its people.

The liberation of East Timor pushed Australia and Indonesia to the brink of confrontation, but diplomacy and a peacekeeping mission led to the birth of a nation. People involved talk about the lasting ...