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1.5 Million Premature Cancer Deaths Could be Prevented per Year if Targets Set to Reduce NCDs are Met by 2025

-On World Cancer Day, UICC and International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) reveal real-life impact of achieving ...

HIV/AIDs carriers grow in number in Medan

The number of people known to have been infected with HIV/AIDs in the North Sumatra capital of Medan has increased in ...

Water surface in several dams in the greater Jakarta alarming

The water levels in a number of dams in the Greater Jakarta areas are alarming on Sunday following almost incessant ...

Hawkish Abe to be named Japan`s next prime minister

Japan`s conservative leader Shinzo Abe is to be named as the country`s new prime minister Wednesday, after he swept to ...

5-year cycle of big floods feared to hit Jakarta in 2013

The five-year cycle of big floods that always put most of Jakarta under water is feared to come early 2013. ...

119 journalists already killed this year

A total of 119 journalists have been killed while on assignment so far this year, the Vienna-based International Press ...

All sides in Gaza conflict must immediately halt fire

UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday urged all sides to the Gaza conflict to immediately cease their fire, warning at a ...

UN, Arab League leaders discuss Syria deadlock

The UN and Arab League leaders on Friday discussed deadlocked efforts to end the Syria war and unrest sweeping the ...

Global Hypertension Experts Launch First-of-its-Kind Online Resource

- The Power Over Pressure steering committee today announced the launch of the world's first online resource created to ...

Human Rights Council backs Internet freedom

The UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva passed its first resolution on Internet freedom on Thursday with a call ...

Twenty beaches affected by extreme coastal erosion in Malang

Lack of mangrove plantations at the southern coast of Malang district, East Java, has caused severe abrasion of ...

Car-free day necessary in Depok

It is necessary for Depok city government in West Java to have a car-free day in order to reduce pollution, according ...

UNICEF reports declining breastfeeding rates in East Asia

The United Nations Children`s Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday voiced alarm at the decline of breastfeeding across East Asia, ...

Syria envoy lashes Qatar, Turkey, Saudi Arabia

Syria`s UN envoy on Thursday demanded that Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Western nations not undermine Kofi Annan`s ...

Islamic approach to tackle AIDS in Indonesia

World Vision Indonesia (WVI) launched the "Channel of Hope" (COH) with an Islamic context in response to HIV and ...