The UN is intent on wrapping up in East Timor by 2012, and the government wants it out then as well. But the failures in East Timor have broader lessons.

Reuters. East Timor's Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao greets U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres upon his arrival during their meeting, ahead of the 25th anniversary of the country's referendum ...

Starting with little infrastructure, the nation-birthing effort is running out of time and money.

UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 20 -- -- UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 20 -- Indonesian security forces and militias they supported killed at least 100,000 East Timorese people -- and perhaps as many as 180,000 ...

Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri immediately pointed that finger at the CDP-RDTL, a group calling for the UN to leave East Timor. UN representative Kamalesh Sharma has claimed that the riots may have ...

The vanguard of an international military force backed by the United Nations landed in East Timor on Monday to restore stability to the tiny territory rocked by violence after it voted to secede ...

UN peacekeepers will hand over full responsibility for policing to East Timor next week as they begin withdrawing in earnest from Asia's youngest nation, a UN official says.

UNITED NATIONS – A U.N. official says peacekeepers are on track to leave East Timor by year's end, but the international community will remain engaged in one of the world's youngest nations ...

East Timor on Friday celebrated the 25th anniversary of a U.N.-backed referendum that secured its independence from its major neighbor Indonesia, which invaded the former Portuguese colony in 1975.

East Timor's independence was a gift to the world because it showed conflict could be resolved through negotiation, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday, the 25th ...