Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. MARK COLVIN: East Timor's Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri is under mounting pressure because of the ...

Muslim politician Mari Alkatiri, who quit as prime minister 2006 after four years as the mainly Catholic nation's first parliamentary leader after its independence, is set for a dramatic return to ...

The Australian government has intensified efforts over the past week to oust East Timorese Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri, who is regarded by Canberra as too close to rival Portugal and an obstacle to ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. MARK COLVIN: East Timor's Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri faces new pressure to resign tonight, with ...

Alkatiri's Fretilin (Independent Timor-Leste Independent Front), with 30 percent of the vote, will have to form a coalition with Independence hero Gusmao's party, which has won 28 percent. In March, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Nelson Da Cruz DILI (Reuters) - East Timor is set to swear in Mari Alkatiri for a second stint as prime minister, the country's ...

The resignation of East Timorese prime minister Mari Alkatiri earlier today is unlikely to bring an immediate end to the country's political strife. The resignation of East Timorese prime minister ...

East Timor's President has compared former prime ministers Xanana Gusmao and Mari Alkatiri to the Indonesian dictator Suharto, saying there was "widespread discontent" among the public that their ...

While East Timor's President, Xanana Gusmao -a former guerrilla fighter and poet - is viewed as a charismatic "man of the people", Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri is lower profile and is seen as more ...