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The Catholic Church reveals that it disciplined Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, an East Timorese minister and former bishop who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1996, over allegations of sexual abuse of teenage boys committed in the early 1990s.
2022-09-29

At least 80 people are killed in Flores island, Indonesia, and 21 more in Dili, East Timor, by flash floods and landslides.
2021-04-4

Australia and East Timor sign a treaty for a permanent maritime border in the Timor Sea, ending a decade-long dispute over rights to the sea's rich oil and gas reserves.
2018-03-7

Australia and East Timor settle a dispute between the two countries in the Timor Sea.
2017-09-2

Voters in East Timor go to the polls to elect members of their National Parliament.
2017-07-22

Voters in East Timor go to the polls for a presidential election with incumbent President Jose Ramos-Horta standing against 11 other candidates. [http:--www.france24.com-en-20120317-east-timor-votes-test-young-nation (AFP via France 24)]date=August 2019
2012-03-17

Mário Viegas Carrascalão resigns as the Deputy Prime Minister of East Timor leaving the Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão without a majority in the Parliament.
2010-09-10

Kirsty Sword Gusmão, wife of East Timor's Prime Minister, backed by head of East Timor's child protection agency Carmen da Cruz, demands Australian woman Lala Noronha return to Dili 15 Timorese teenagers she has in Malaysia. However, the youths have stated that they do not want to go back.
2010-03-22

President of East Timor José Ramos-Horta begins his two-day first official state visit to Ireland by meeting Taoiseach Brian Cowen, urging the country to continue providing economic support as a priority nation and receiving an honorary doctorate from University College Dublin.
2010-03-8