President-elect Barack Obama is completing his national security team by announcing his unusual choices for CIA director and a national intelligence director who may face tough Senate confirmation questioning over how he confronted the Indonesian military

The U.S. geological agency says a powerful earthquake has struck off East Timor’s coast, but there have been no reports of injuries or damage.

Australia will reduce its troop numbers in East Timor because of improvements in security since a failed assassination attempt against the small nation’s president in February, the Australian defense minister said Wednesday.

East Timor is drawing up plans for a deep sea pipeline and petrochemicals plant to tap an estimated $90 billion in disputed underwater oil and gas, company and government officials said, in a rare opportunity for one of Asia’s poorest and smallest countri

A powerful undersea earthquake rocked East Timor’s capital on Tuesday, sending terrified residents fleeing from homes and buildings, witnesses said. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.

Indonesia’s president acknowledged his country carried out gross human rights abuses during East Timor’s 1999 break for independence, but stopped short of offering a full apology Tuesday for murders, torture and other crimes.A bilateral truth...

Police in East Timor’s capital fired tear gas Monday to disperse students protesting a plan by lawmakers to buy themselves new cars with state funds, authorities said.Officers detained 21 students during the rally in Dili for “investigation purposes,”...

East Timor’s president said Friday he would not take a new job as the U.N. human rights commissioner, citing possible political instability in his fledgling democracy.Jose Ramos-Horta told political leaders last week he had already accepted the job, but..

Indonesia extradited four rebel soldiers suspected in the attempted assassinations of East Timor’s president and prime minister, the police chief said Monday.The East Timorese men, who were detained after illegally crossing the border last month, were...

A dozen rebels suspected of involvement in attacks on East Timor’s top leaders surrendered to authorities Tuesday, and met the president in an emotional ceremony.Rebel commander Gastau Salsinha and 11 of his men, believed to have carried out a Feb. 11...