China urges calm in standoff over North Korea
South Korea – China came under pressure to censure in North Korea at a regional summit on Sunday but gave no sign it would get tough with the hermit state, instead urging everyone to calm…
South Korea – China came under pressure to censure in North Korea at a regional summit on Sunday but gave no sign it would get tough with the hermit state, instead urging everyone to calm…
Louisiana isn’t the only place dealing with oil on its beaches and in its wetlands this weekend. Singapore parks officials said Friday that oil spilled in the collision of a tanker with another ship on…
A top anti-smoking group called on the Indonesian government Thursday to give the parents of a chainsmoking 2-year-old baby a kick in the ash. “It’s clear the parents of this baby don’t understand the risk…
BANGALORE, India – A freight train rammed into derailed coaches of a passenger express in eastern India early yesterday, killing at least 56 people in the country’s worst rail disaster in eight years, as officials…
Many people of the United States and Canada celebrate Fathers Day as a day to express gratitude and appreciation to their fathers by giving them presents or greeting cards. Father’s Day comes on the third…
Bank Indonesia deputy governor Budi Rochadi said an internal audit team had questioned four officials for their alleged involvement in a bribery case over the printing of Rp 100,000 bills in Australia. “The internal audit…
Washington — The U.S. House and a Senate committee approved amendments to a military bill Thursday that would repeal the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy barring openly gay and lesbian soldiers from military service, but…
Jakarta Globe -Â The National Police on Friday said three members of an Islamist group led by hard-line cleric Abu Bakar Bashir would face charges of helping fund an armed group in Aceh that had…
Justice Minister Patrialis Akbar suggested on Wednesday that the nation should move past the May 1998 riots, but a national rights commission is urging the tragedy to be taught in schools so future generations can…
As the job market begins to loosen up, human-resource managers might increasingly be surprised by an announcement from employees they haven’t heard in a while: “I quit.” In February, the number of employees voluntarily quitting…
Seoul, South Korea — South Korean President Lee Myung-bak announced Monday his country is suspending trade with North Korea, closing its waters to the North’s ships and adopting a newly aggressive military posture after the…
It was another day and another adventure in Paris, France. Today, our main goal was to peruse the entire Place de la Concorde, which is Paris’ most prominent square. Like any other place in Paris,…
An Indonesian buyer is in contract to buy a 48,000-square-foot mansion in Los Angeles’ Bel-Air neighborhood for around $50 million. If the deal closes, it would set what brokers believe to be a new record…
WEST POINT, N.Y. — The U.S. must shape a world order as reliant on the force of diplomacy as on the might of its military to lead, President Barack Obama said Saturday as he outlined…
The wife of the third Indonesian president, B.J. Habibie, Hasri Ainun Habibie, passed away at Ludwig Maximilians-Universitat Hospital in Munich, Germany, on Saturday afternoon. She was 72. Ainun died of colon infection, kompas.com reported. The…
A 13-year-old American boy has become the youngest person ever to climb Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak. Jordan Romero of California reached the Himalayan summit, 8,850 meters above sea level, on Saturday, surpassing the…
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