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East Timor drops Aust spying case at UN

EAST Timor has dropped litigation against Australia after it returned documents its agents seized from a lawyer working for the tiny ex-Indonesian island.

EAST Timor has officially dropped its case against Australia before the UN's International Court of Justice, after Canberra returned sensitive documents relating to a controversial oil and gas treaty.

"THE case brought against Australia in respect of a dispute concerning the seizure of data and documents which belongs to Timor-Leste... was removed from the court's list on June 11," the ICJ said Friday in a statement.

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