President Jokowi meets Rakhine State refugees
Thejakartatimes - After traveling through the air route using the Presidential plane of Indonesia-1, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi), accompanied by First Lady Iriana Joko Widodo, ...
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US Jets Intercepted Russian Warplanes in Syria, Pentagon Says
Thejakartatimes - Two U.S. warplanes intercepted two Russian jets over a part of Syria they were not supposed to be operating in, the Pentagon said Thursday. At one point during W ...
Read More »Russia Negotiating Deal for Its Warplanes to Use Egyptian Bases
Thejakartatimes - Russia has approved a draft agreement with Egypt for Russian warplanes to use Egyptian military bases, in a move allowing Moscow to increase its military presenc ...
Read More »Iran Provides Refuge to Families of Shi’ite Afghan Fighters Killed in Syria
Thejakartatimes - Tears streamed down her cheeks as she held up the pictures of her two grandsons. Both of them, Sayed Mujtaba and Sayed Ismail, were in the Afghan army a couple o ...
Read More »Pollution Is the World’s Number One Killer
Thejakartatimes - A new study has identified pollution as the world’s No. 1 killer. Study organizers say pollution is responsible for more premature deaths than war, terrorism, na ...
Read More »Spain Seeks Charges Against Catalan Leaders
Thejakartatimes - Spanish prosecutors say they will seek rebellion charges against the leaders of Catalonia’s ousted government. The move follows Catalonia’s declaration of indepe ...
Read More »US Agency: Climate Change Costs Americans Billions of Dollars
Thejakartatimes - An agency of the United States government says the effects of climate change cost American taxpayers billions of dollars each year. The U.S. Government Accountab ...
Read More »Myanmar, Once a Hope for Democracy, Is Now a Study in How It Fails
Thejakartatimes - Nearly a decade into Myanmar’s transition out of military rule, the country’s once-celebrated transition toward democracy is hardening into something very differ ...
Read More »Barcelona: A Global City in the Eye of a Separatist Storm
Thejakartatimes - These days, the city of Barcelona wears two hats. And not too comfortably. On the one hand, Barcelona is a global city, a former host of the Olympics, and the ho ...
Read More »2 Paths for Yemen’s War-Scarred Children: Combat, or Marriage
Thejakartatimes - The girl did not know whether it was night or day when she plotted her escape from a house in Yemen. Her husband had locked the girl in a windowless room. “He wa ...
Read More »Kim Jong-un of North Korea, in Rare Show of Confidence, Promotes His Sister
Thejakartatimes - Kim Jong-un has promoted his younger sister to North Korea’s most important political body, a rare public gesture of confidence by a leader whose dealings with f ...
Read More »Search for a Motive in Las Vegas: Slow but ‘We’ll Get There’
Thejakartatimes - The man who killed 49 people at an Orlando nightclub last year pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, in a 911 call, as the massacre unfolded. The sniper who s ...
Read More »Las Vegas Shooting Near Mandalay Bay Casino Kills at Least 20
Thejakartatimes - A gunman in a Las Vegas hotel opened fire Sunday night at a concert outside, sending thousands of people fleeing as SWAT units searched for the attacker. At leas ...
Read More »Afghan Forces Killed in Friendly-Fire Airstrike, Capping Deadly Week
Thejakartatimes - Culminating a deadly week for Afghan forces in the south of the country, an airstrike from friendly forces mistakenly struck an Afghan unit in Helmand Province o ...
Read More »Saudis Wonder What’s Next After the King Allows Women to Drive
Thejakartatimes - Rights groups attacked it. Conservatives defended it. Comedians sang about it. A king had vowed to end it, but died without doing so. Then, in an announcement on ...
Read More »Parents of Otto Warmbier, North Korea Captive, Say He Was Tortured
Thejakartatimes - The parents of Otto F. Warmbier, the American student detained by North Korea who died shortly after he had been flown home comatose in June, said Tuesday that h ...
Read More »Palestinian Gunman Kills 3 Israelis at West Bank Crossing
Thejakartatimes - Each weekday scores of Palestinians from the surrounding West Bank villages line up at a yellow metal barrier on the edge of Har Adar, an affluent Israeli border ...
Read More »Lazada Expands Alibaba’s Taobao Market in Southeast Asia
Thejakartatimes - The online retailer Lazada Group said it would sell selected items from Taobao's market or marketplace to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd to three additional Southeast ...
Read More »Japanese Prime Minister Announces $ 17.8 Million in Economic Stimulus Packages
Thejakartatimes - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday ordered his cabinet to draft a new economic stimulus package worth about 2 trillion yen (17.80 billion dollars) by t ...
Read More »Pope Francis Promises The Most Serious Act Against Pedophiles
Thejakartatimes - Pope Francis promised to take the most rigorous action against a pastor who rapes and abuses children and declares he will hold the bishops and bosses responsibl ...
Read More »Israel Supports Referendum on Kurdish Independence – Iraq
) Thejakartatimes - Israel's support for the planned Kurdish-Iraqi independence referendum will take place on Monday (25/9) ahead, likely to cause tension in relations with Turkey ...
Read More »Filipina: Militer Berhasil Selamatkan Pendeta Katolik
Thejakartatimes - Sejumlah pejabat Filipina mengatakan, pasukan pemerintah telah berhasil menyelamatkan seorang pendeta Katolik Roma dan seorang warga sipil, dua dari puluhan oran ...
Read More »Kuwait akan Usir Dubes Korut dan 4 Diplomat Lain
Thejakartatimes - Kuwait akan mengusir Duta Besar Korea Utara untuk negara kaya minyak itu dan empat diplomat lainnya. Langkah itu dipandang banyak pihak akan membatasi kemampuan ...
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