East Timor is celebrating 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.

An increasingly assertive China and a humanitarian crisis in Myanmar are likely to be high on the agenda when Southeast Asian leaders meet in Australia for a rare summit this week.

The National Elections Commission says East Timor’s opposition party has won Sunday's parliamentary election.

Vote counting is underway in East Timor’s parliamentary election with two former independence fighters considered for the post of prime minister.

East Timor’s Catholics have reacted with shock but also expressions of support for revered independence icon and Nobel Peace Prize winner Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo following allegations he sexually abused boys decades ago in the impoverished Southeast Asian nation.

The Vatican says it imposed disciplinary sanctions on Nobel Peace Prize-winning Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo following allegations that he sexually abused boys in East Timor in the 1990s.

Voters in East Timor have chosen a president in a runoff election between former independence fighters who've blamed each other for years of political paralysis.

Vote counting is underway in East Timor’s presidential elections with two former fighters for independence, one current and one former president, considered to be the front-runners.

A defrocked American priest accused of sexually abusing orphaned and disadvantaged young girls under his care in East Timor has been found guilty and sentenced to 12 years in prison, in the first case of its kind in the staunchly Catholic nation.