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Xanana Gusmão shows his ink-stained finger after voting in the capital, Dili, in Timor-Leste’s general election on Saturday. Photograph: Lirio Da Fonseca/Reuters
Timor-Leste hero Xanana Gusmão heads back into power

Timor-Leste independence hero Xanana Gusmão is expected to be reappointed prime minister after the country’s second parliamentary election in less tha(...)

A supporter of the Fretilin party shouts during a rally in Dili, Timor-Leste, ahead of parliamentary elections on Saturday. Photograph: Lirio Da Fonseca/Reuters
Sixteen years on from independence, Timorese go to polls after bitter campaign

In April 1999, when Indonesian troops burned down his family’s house and arrested his father in the rural town of Maliana in East Timor, Fidelis Magal(...)