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Gaddafi defiant as west mulls action

Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi stood firm Wednesday, accusing the West of plotting to seize his country`s oil and the ...

Indonesia`s economic growth unaffected by oil price surge

Although the world oil price in Asia hovered near $105 per barrel on Tuesday a banker in Jakarta expressed the belief ...

Ministry optimistic poverty rate to drop to MDG-sanctioned level

The Social Affairs Ministry is optimistic Indonesia will be able to cut its poverty rate to 7.5 percent by 2015 in ...

Russia opposed to military intervention in Libya: Lavrov

Russia is opposed to any form of military intervention in Libya, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday as the ...

President orders sharpened watch over rising world oil prices

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has instructed Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Hatta Rajasa to keep a ...

RI Islamic figure joins opposition to US congress radicalization hearing

Indonesian Moslem figure Syamsul Ali, along with hundreds of adherents of different faiths on Sunday staged a peaceful ...

Govt keeps monitoring global oil prices

The Indonesian government keeps monitoring the movements of global crude prices after they rose 21 percent in the past ...

Not getting enough sleep? Turn off the technology

Dependence on televisions, cellphones and laptops may be costing Americans dearly -- in lack of sleep. The ...

Indonesia to ratify Nagoya Protocol on access to genetic resources

Indonesia will soon ratify the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources to preserve the biological diversity ...

International Women's Day, 2011: Time to Make the Promise of Equality a Reality

-    The following is a message by Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director, UN Women:    A ...

Sri Lanka in talks with UN over war crimes: report

Sri Lanka has held secret talks with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on alleged war crimes during the ...

Robert F. Kennedy assassin denied parole

The assassin who killed US presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy in 1968 was denied parole Wednesday, and will have ...

California woman sues after slipping on banana peel

A banana peel, the torment of many a cartoon character, has allegedly become the real-life downfall of a woman in ...

News Focus: Indonesians Struggle To Get Out Of Strife-torn Libya

Amid chaotic conditions and violence in Libya, a number of Indonesian nationals, like other foreigners of various ...

Indonesians struggle to get out of Strife-torn Libya

Amid chaotic conditions and violence in Libya, a number of Indonesian nationals, like other foreigners of various ...