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RI to achieve growth targets despite worsening crisis

Although the world economic crisis and recession are deepening at an increasingly worrying pace, Indonesia will still ...

Piers morgan welcomes his fourth child

Television host Piers Morgan became a father for the fourth time on Friday after his wife gave birth to a baby girl, ...

In developing world, poor still means thin

"First world" health problems such as obesity and heart disease may be gaining ground in developing nations, but they ...

World of "contradiction" awaits 7 billionth person

The world`s seven billionth person will be born Monday into what UN leader Ban Ki-moon calls a "world of ...

South Sudan wants to join Commonwealth

The world`s newest nation, South Sudan, wants to join the Commonwealth, the bloc`s Assistant Secretary General Stephen ...

Jakarta to host world Delta Summit

The first World Delta Summit will be organized here on November 21-24, 2011, according to Secretary of the ...

News Focus: anticipating impacts of US, Europe debt crises on Indonesia

The global economy is still shaky having just begun to recover from the 2008 global recession, and yet the world is ...

Megawati warns govt of Europe-US crisis indications

Chairwoman of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) Megawati Soekarnoputri has warned the government of ...

UN to start airlifting food aid into Mogadishu: WFP

The World Food Programme will start airlifting aid into Mogadishu "within days", the UN agency`s director said ...

Britain`s metropolitan police chief resigns over hacking scandal ties

Britain`s Metropolitan Police chief Paul Stephenson resigned on Sunday after he was accused of having links with the ...

RI seeking free trade barriers for Its CPO exports to EU

Indonesia, the world largest crude palm oil producer, has formed a special team to identify various kinds of trade ...

World Bank, ASEAN launch world development report on conflict, security

A new World Bank report prepared in consultation with the ASEAN Secretariat shows that conflict and insecurity affect ...

World`s oldest man turns 114 in Japan

The world`s oldest man, Japanese citizen Jiroemon Kimura, turned 114 on Tuesday, celebrating the day away from the ...

Journalist for Reuters killed in Iraq attack

A freelance journalist who worked for Reuters was among more than 50 people killed on Tuesday when gunmen attacked a ...

WWF asks Riau to stop conflict between humans and elephabnts

The Riau World Wide Fund for Nature is trying to put an end to the conflict between humans and elephants (elephas ...