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Boeing 747-400 makes first landing on SIM airport

Hundreds of people from many parts of Banda Aceh, Aceh Province, flocked to Sulatan Iskandar Muda (SIM) airport at ...

news focus: SIM airport worthy to serve wide-body aircraft

Sultan Iskandar Muda (SIM) international airport in Aceh Province is worthy to serve wide-body aircraft such as Boeing ...

Over 25,000 Indonesian hajj pilgrims arrive in Saudi Arabia

A total of 25,878 Indonesian hajj pilgrims arrived in Saudi Arabia until the fifth day since the first flight batch ...

News focus: all RI hajj pilgrims should wear batik

Thousands of Indonesian hajj pilgrims left for Saudi Arabia on Sunday morning (Oct 2,2011) to perform the fifth ...

South Sumatra`s 355 would-be hajj pilgrims off to Medina

South Sumatra governor H Alex Noerdin on Sunday here saw off a total of 355 would-be hajj pilgrims from South Sumatra ...

Four blasts kill 17 in iraq`s Kerbala

Four successive blasts hit the Iraqi city of Kerbala on Sunday, killing at least 17 people and wounding dozens more ...

President Yudhoyono condemns Solo bombing

President Susilo Bambang Yudhyono condemned the bombing incident in front of Bethel Injil Sepenuh church (GBIS) In ...

Govt condemns suicide bombing in Solo: security minister

The government strongly condemned the suicide bombing action that happened in Kepunton church, Central Java, on ...

VP calls for increase in RI's hajj pilgrimage quota

Vice President Boediono has urged Indonesian diplomats dealing with hajj pilgrimage affairs in Saudi Arabia to strive ...

Jakarta to ask for bigger hajj quota

Indonesia will ask for a bigger hajj quota from the Saudi government for this year`s hajj pilgrimage season, Religious ...

Baghdad car bomb hits mourners, 53 dead in attacks

A massive car bomb ripped through a funeral ceremony in a Shiite district of Baghdad on Thursday, killing 48 people in ...

Triple attacks on Shiite pilgrims in Iraq kill 12

Three car bombs ripped through crowds near Iraq`s shrine city of Karbala on Monday, killing 12 people and wounding ...

50 dead in Iraq as suicide blasts rock holy city

A spate of explosions across Iraq on Thursday killed at least 50 people, most of them in twin suicide car bombings in ...

Bomb attacks on Shi`ites, Iraqi police kill 48

At least 48 people were killed in Iraq on Thursday in bombings targeting Shi`ite pilgrims and police, a third day of ...

64 Pilgrims dead in Indian stampede: state minister

The toll from a deadly stampede at a pilgrimage site in southern Indian on Friday rose to 64, with 75 injured, the ...