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Putin to visit Russian island near Japan: official

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will on Saturday make a previously unplanned visit to a Russian island that sits just ...

BOJ injects record $ 182 billion Into Japan economy

Japan`s central bank pumped a record 15 trillion yen ($182 billion) into the financial system Monday and doubled its ...

Japan`s tsunami reminds Indonesians of similar disaster in Aceh

Friday`s post-tsunami scene could be described as one of the country`s deepest traumas since World War II after ...

Japanese tourists visit WW II sites in Biak

A group of 11 Japanese tourists, accompanied by several Indonesian officials, visited various World War II sites in ...

Lufthansa halts Tripoli flights

German flag carrier Lufthansa said Thursday it was suspending regular flights to Tripoli until at least Monday owing ...

Russia and Japan to hold islands crisis talks

The top diplomats of Russia and Japan will hold tense talks Friday amid a bitter war of words over a chain of disputed ...

Japan PM remarks on islands `undiplomatic`: Russia

The war of words between Russia and Japan escalated on Monday when Moscow called Tokyo`s latest comments on a disputed ...

UN flying staff, families out of Egypt to Cyprus

Around 600 United Nations staff and their families are to be airlifted to Cyprus on Thursday as the security situation ...

2,600 Americans seek to evacuate Egypt: US

At least 2,600 Americans in Egypt have asked US officials for help in evacuating the crisis-torn Arab nation, the ...

Sargent Shriver, Peace Corps founder, dies

Sargent Shriver, the founder of the Peace Corps and a former vice presidential candidate, died Tuesday in suburban ...

Swedish envoy to visit Lombok Timur

Swedish Ambassador to Indonesia Ms. Ewa Ulrika Polano is scheduled to be in Lombok Timur district, West Nusa Tenggara ...

Air bags, poor economy save road lives - U.S. study

Air bags and the economic recession have contributed to the biggest drop in road deaths in the United States since ...