Former East Timor president Jose Ramos-Horta says Australia shouldn't underestimate the anger of East Timorese people after allegations Australian spies bugged cabinet meetings during negotiations for a deal on Timor Sea oil and gas reserves in 2004.
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JOHANNESBURG - World leaders and joyous, singing South Africans have honoured Nelson Mandela at a Soweto soccer stadium that was two-thirds full amid cold, driving rain. At the memorial service US President Barack Obama shook hands with Cuban President Raul Castro, stoking talk of a possible rapprochement between the two foes.
BANGUI - French President Francois Hollande has arrived in curfew-bound Central African Republic capital Bangui, where two French soldiers were killed hours earlier during an operation to disarm rogue rebels.
DHAKA - Bangladesh's highest court has halted the killing of an Islamist 90 minutes before he was to become the first person executed for war crimes committed during the country's bloody independence fight.
MARSEILLE - The founder of a French firm whose faulty breast implants sparked a global health scare has been sentenced to four years in jail after being convicted of fraud.
LONDON - More than 500 authors, including JM Coetzee and Gunter Grass, have signed a petition to the UN that claims mass state surveillance is violating basic freedoms.
OSLO - The body tasked with ridding the world of chemical weapons has picked up its Nobel Peace Prize in a ceremony in Oslo, saying it hoped the prestige would speed a global ban on the arms.
