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What's Your Reaction? JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A statue of President Barack Obama as a 10-year-old wearing shorts and a T-shirt has been erected in a Jakarta park to inspire children in the country where he lived as a boy, officials said Wednesday.
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A least 20 people died and two were injured when fire engulfed a third-floor karaoke bar in one of Indonesia's largest cities on Friday, police said, adding that the death toll could rise.
A fire at an amusement center in a commercial building in Indonesia's third largest city killed at least 20 people and injured two others Friday, police said, adding that the death toll could rise.
Berlin - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet approved Wednesday the extension by one year of military deployments off the coast of Somalia and in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The military currently has some 240 personnel engaged in the European Union's ...
Vienna - The oil price set by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) moved below 75 dollars for the first time since early November on Tuesday, the organization announced Wednesday. One barrel (159 litres) of OPEC-produced crude...
Sydney - An iceberg twice the size of Sydney Harbour is heading towards Western Australia, news reports said Wednesday. The iceberg, known as B17B and measuring 19 kilometres by 8 kilometres, is drifting with the currents 1,700 kilometres from Austra...
Tokyo - Japanese automaker Suzuki Motor Corp said Wednesday it had signed a capital tie-up deal with Volkswagen AG. Under the agreement, Volkswagen plans to buy a 19.9-per-cent stake in the Japanese automaker. ...
Baghdad - Iraq's presidential council has once again postponed the date it will hold parliamentary elections, but this time the delay will be for only one day, to March 7. There was an agreement to hold elections on March 6, Presidential Chief of S...
“Don’t be Su-Su Kumar (Mister Pee)” urges one Hindi- language banner alongside a cartoon of a bald pedestrian lowering his trousers to relieve himself. “Delhi’s beauty is everyone’s duty.”
Evocations of Judgment Day were an undercurrent in speeches and materials on opening day in Copenhagen.
Taipei - Taiwan Wednesday sent a delegation to Fuzhou in southern China for preparatory talks to pave the way for a cross-strait summit planned later this month, officials said. Maa Shaw-chang, deputy secretary general of the Straits Exchange Foundat...
The UN mission in East Timor needs to hand over formal control of the country's national police force as soon as possible to avoid doing irreparable damage, according to an influential think-tank.
The forecasts came with caveats — a less robust recovery in the United States and continued weakness in magazine and newspaper advertising.
(RTTNews) - The Indonesian stock market has finished higher now in four straight sessions, adding more than 110 points or 4.1 percent along the way.
Kiev - Police destroyed a suspected bomb found aboard a Russian train while it was passing through Ukraine's Kharkiv province, the Interfax news agency reported Wednesday. A conductor aboard a passenger express running between the Russian city of St ...
