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Papua referendum idea not popular among local people

Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro said the demand for a referendum as voiced by a group of Papuan people recently ...

No Military Operations In Papua : Army Chief

The Indonesian army said here on Thursday that it had launched no military action in reaction to recent attacks and ...

Police, military hunting down Papua separatists

Police and the military are to hold a joint operation to comb areas suspected to be the hideouts of the unidentfied ...

Anti-terror police mobilized to hunt OPM separatists

The Densus-88 anti-terror police had been mobilized to hunt down members of the separatist Free Papua Movement (OPM) ...

Govt believes Abepura shootings may be insurgent activity

The government is not ruling out the possibility Monday`s violence in Abepura, Papua, was an insurgent activity ...

Sri Lanka admits civilian deaths in separatist war

Sri Lanka on Monday admitted for the first time that civilians may have been killed during its military push against ...

Police, OPM insurgents exchange fire in Paniai region

Police and members of the separatist OPM (Free Papua Organization) were involved in an exchange of fire in the Paniai ...

Kashmir sours India-Pakistan talks: Indian official

India`s foreign secretary voiced concern on Wednesday about the Pakistani foreign minister`s decision to meet Kashmiri ...

Militant promises new chapter in Russia insurgency

Moscow`s most wanted Islamist militant Doku Umarov warned that Russia would be the target of a newly strengthened ...

Inidian Kashmir paralysed by rape protest

A general strike paralysed India`s Muslim-majority Kashmir valley on Saturday in a second day of protest against the ...

Ex-chief Of ETA Gets 377-year Sentence

A court in Spain Friday sentenced the former head of the Basque separatist group ETA, Garikoitz Aspiazu, to 377 years ...

Obama meets Dalai Lama at White House, defies China

U.S. President Barack Obama met with exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama for roughly 45 minutes at the ...

Twenty Turkish soldiers, Kurdish rebels killed in clash

Kurdish fighters killed 13 Turkish soldiers and seven militants died on Thursday in the worst clash since the ...

South Sudan admitted to U.N. as 193rd member

The General Assembly admitted South Sudan on Thursday as the 193rd member of the United Nations, sealing the new ...

35 dead, 200 hurt as two trains derailed in India

Two passenger trains were derailed in separate incidents in India on Sunday, leaving at least 35 people dead and about ...