Ever since Sept. 11, the New York Police Department has been aggressively gathering intelligence to help prevent another terrorist attack. Now, those tactics are provoking new controversy in New Jersey after The Associated Press published a confidential, 60-page NYPD report from 2007 containing detailed information on dozens of mosques and Muslim-owned businesses in nearby Newark. Local officials [...]
We ask if the punishment really fits the crime in a justice system riddled with corruption and incompetence. Indonesia prides itself on being a democratic nation, but critics say that its justice system does not reflect the country’s progress. Riddled with corruption and incompetent investigative procedures, trials and sentences are often deemed unfair. Wealthy or [...]
President Barack Obama apologized on Thursday for the burning of copies of the Koran on a U.S. base in Afghanistan as the White House sought to quell spiraling furor among Afghans while also staving off Republican criticism at home. In a letter to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Obama apologized over the incident in which Afghan workers found [...]
Bolivia’s coca farmers make a living criss-crossing deep valleys on a web of makeshift cables high above forest canopy. In Bolivia’s jungles and steep cliffs the Yungas people do not walk. They fly. On ropes. Like birds. Faster than astronauts. These ‘birds’ are known as cocaleros, or coca harvesters. They use ropes to swing across [...]
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Rio de Janeiro – Carnival revelers descended on Rio de Janeiro, flocking to hundreds of block parties and cramming into designated areas to watch elaborate parades from dusk until dawn. Pounding drums and fireworks explosions announced the start of each samba school that parades down the emblematic strip, flanked by stands with seating for 80,000 [...]
Fourteen-year-old is already studying towards a maths degree at university in California. Almost every parent believes their child is special, but the parents of Californian teenager Moshe Kai Cavalin have more reason than most to think so. Moshe started taking college courses aged eight, and is now, aged 14, on a full scholarship studying mathematics [...]
After Katrina, photographer Christopher Porche West took pains to recover a suit. A very special suit, as reported by the Times-Picayune. Beaded from head to toe, the now-legendary “Geronimo suit” took 9th Ward resident Carl Merricks four years to create. And it might have languished in a trash bag forever had Porche West not rescued it. That suit [...]
Here’s something you don’t see every day: a tornado on the surface of the sun. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory posted this stunning video, which shows the sun’s plasma sliding and spinning around in the star’s magnetic fields for 30 hours earlier this month. Terry Kucera, a solar physicist with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, told Fox [...]
Henry Tang’s campaign to become territory’s chief executive comes under pressure over construction of illegal basement. A controversy surrounding efforts to cover up an illegal home extension have overshadowed the campaign of Henry Tang, who is bidding to become Hong Kong’s chief executive. In an overcrowded territory, where most people reside in tiny, cramped apartments, the [...]
Family of boys who died in custody claim to have proof of abuse, contradicting police accounts. The family of two young brothers in Indonesia have blamed police brutality for their deaths in custody. They had been told that the two boys, aged 13 and 17, hanged themselves while in detention, but according to the family, [...]
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Get a look at Whitney Houston’s life through her own words. Print PDF This post was submitted by CNN / IM.
Against a backdrop of continuing violence and instability, the United States must be prepared to take a stronger stand on Papua. Rising tensions there risk complicating critically significant U.S.-Indonesia relations, unnecessarily distracting from the strategically important “rebalancing†towards the Asia-Pacific recently announced by the Obama administration. By any measure, Indonesia looms large in U.S. foreign policy. Its [...]
This week, the President made a major announcement on preventive care, unveiled next year’s budget, pushed Congress to extend the payroll tax cut, awarded the National Medals of Arts & Humanities, met with China’s Vice President Xi, and traveled west to Wisconsin and California and the First Lady hit the road to promote her Let’s [...]
The only tall mast ship of the Barquentine class owned and operated by the Indonesian Navy, KRI Dewaruci, will participate at the International Operation Sail 2012 to commemorate the mark of the two hundredth anniversary of the war of 1812 and the writing of US National Anthem “the Star Spangled Bannerâ€. The series of [...]
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