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Timor Leste President Ramos-Horta returns home
Thu, Apr 17, 2008
AFP

>DILI - TIMOR Leste President Jose Ramos-Horta arrived home amid tight security and cheering crowds on Thursday after two months of treatment abroad for gunshot wounds sustained in a rebel attack, an AFP correspondent said.

The visibly thinner president stepped off a plane from the Australian city of Darwin to a hero's welcome from more than 1,000 supporters and figures from across the tiny Asian nation's fractious political spectrum. -- AFP

 

 

 
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