Tobacco’s tough times
Indonesia currently supplies more than 25 percent of the global demand of tobacco wrappers, the largest after Brazil. The quality of the country’s commodity used for cigars is considered one of the best in the…
Indonesia currently supplies more than 25 percent of the global demand of tobacco wrappers, the largest after Brazil. The quality of the country’s commodity used for cigars is considered one of the best in the…
Forty people were injured when a bull leapt into the packed grandstands of a Spanish bullring and ran amok, charging and trampling on spectators, regional officials said Thursday.Video shown on Spanish media outlets showed the…
– Two passengers were being questioned further by authorities in connection with a security threat against an American Airlines flight this morning in San Francisco, California, according to a law enforcement source familiar with the…
Ohio – President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he had “no regrets” about taking a controversial position on whether a Muslim community center and mosque is built near the site of the September 11 attacks…
The U.S. and South Korean militaries will stage their second joint exercise in less than a month from Monday, fuelling tensions with the prickly North and angering regional power China. The annual exercise comes a…
August 13, 2010 -Good evening. Welcome to the White House. To you, to Muslim Americans across our country, and to more than one billion Muslims around the world, I extend my best wishes on this…
In an emerging battle over regulating Internet access, companies are taking sides. Facebook, one of the companies that has flourished on the open Internet, indicated Wednesday that it did not support a proposal by Google…
A radical Muslim cleric, Abu Bakar Bashir has been arrested on charges of terrorism by Indonesian anti-terror police from West Java in early Monday. Abu Bakar Bashir planned for killing the Indonesia’s president Susilo Bambang…
Most Muslims around the world begin observing the holy month of Ramadan on Wednesday, a time when they reflect on what it’s like to go hungry. They fast from dawn to dusk, and break the…
The House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to send more federal agents to the border with Mexico to strengthen security, approving a measure the Senate adopted last week. The Obama administration has urged passage of…
Ever since Darwin came up with the whole idea of evolution, there’s been one dominant picture of the moment we truly became human. It’s that cartoon sequence: You see a hairy ape man with a…
The National Police counterterrorism squad arrested on Saturday two suspected terrorists but missed another during a raid on a house in Pasirbiru subdistrict in the West Java capital of Bandung. The two suspects, identified by…
Beijing, China (CNN) — Massive mudslides in northwestern China have killed 337 people, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported Monday. An additional 1,148 people are missing, the news agency said, citing the civil affairs department…
Police in the German port city of Hamburg shut down a mosque that was used by several Sept. 11 hijackers Monday for its suspected links to terrorism. Security services say they believe the Taiba mosque…
Texas – President Barack Obama attacked the economic policies of his Republican predecessor George W. Bush in Bush’s home state on Monday as evidence of the way Republicans would operate if given power in November…
Hundreds of people from the Islam Defender Front (FPI) attacked members of the HKBP church in Pondok Indah Timur at Mustika Jaya district, Bekasi, West Java at 9 a.m. on Sunday. “He hadn’s started our…
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