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BANDA ACEH The founder of Aceh’s separatist rebel movement died on Thursday aged 85 after two weeks in an intensive... Read More →

DENPASAR Preliminary figures from the 2010 national census last month show Denpasar, Bali’s capital city, is now home to 782,000... Read More →

TOKYO Japan’s centre-left Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama resigned on Wednesday, less than nine months after taking power following a landslide... Read More →

TOKYO Australia has launched legal action at the International Court of Justice to stop Japan’s whaling programme, Japanese officials said... Read More →

JERUSALEM At least 10 people were killed as Israeli forces stormed a boat carrying pro-Palestinian activists bound for Gaza, Israeli... Read More →

SYDNEY A giant plume of volcanic ash is disrupting flights in the Pacific and threatening villagers in Vanuatu, echoing similar... Read More →

SARDIHA Maoist rebels derailed a high-speed train packed with sleeping passengers into the path of a freight train in eastern... Read More →

PORT VILA A 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck off Vanuatu on Friday, seismologists said, sparking a tsunami warning that was later cancelled.... Read More →

SEOUL North Korea’s military said on Thursday it is scrapping a pact aimed at preventing accidental armed clashes with South... Read More →

DENPASAR Eight people are now dead and five are in hospital after drinking home-brewed arak believed to have been laced... Read More →