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round-up: demonstrations against fuel oil price hike end in clashes

Demonstrations held by thousands of people in Jakarta and other regions in the country against the imminent fuel price ...

Indonesia defying cheap oil fuel policy

Indonesia`s Deputy Energy Minister Widjajono Partowidagdo said Indonesia could no longer apply a cheap oil fuel policy ...

Indonesia rejects presence of nuclear weapons

Indonesia will voice its firm rejection of the production and deployment of nuclear weapons during the nuclear ...

Obama to raise arms cuts with putin in may: official

President Barack Obama will Monday commit to raising the possibility of fresh nuclear arms cuts with new Russian ...

Breakaway Georgia region S.Ossetia votes for president

The Russian-backed breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia voted for a new president on Sunday, with its former ...

Space junk misses ISS

A piece of space debris missed the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday, forcing its crew members to take ...

Medvedev heads off for Seoul, New Delhi

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Sunday departed for South Korea and India, where he will attend a nuclear summit ...

Blasts shake Homs, Syria rebels hit back

Blasts rocked the flashpoint city of Homs on Sunday as Syria`s regime pressed its assault on protest hubs, while ...

Obama visits border amid N. Korea tensions

US President Barack Obama visited the tense inter-Korean border Sunday, calling it "freedom`s frontier", as he weighs ...

Russia`s Medvedev warns west over missile shield

President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday time was running out for the West to come up with new proposals to secure ...

China urges restraint ahead of N Korea rocket launch

China on Friday urged restraint ahead of the launch of a North Korean rocket, after Tokyo said it was readying its ...

Sri Lanka should punish civil war crimes - UN forum

Sri Lanka should ensure government troops who committed war crimes during the final stages of its war against Tamil ...

West to pay Afghan military $4 bln a year: Karzai

The international community will subsidise Afghan security forces by more than $4 billion a year for a decade after ...

Russia, China join UN demand for Syria peace move

The UN Security Council demanded Wednesday that Syria immediately implement a peace plan by special envoy Kofi Annan, ...

Bloomberg Philanthropies Announces Additional $220 Million to Fight Global Tobacco Use

-     - Progress to date includes 1.2 billion people protected by effective tobacco control ...