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Indonesia grants national hero status to late strongman Suharto
Reuters, Published on 10/11/2025
» JAKARTA - Indonesia awarded the title of national hero on Monday to late President Suharto, who was forced out of office in 1998 by violent protests that ended a three-decade rule marred by accusations of mass human rights violations, corruption and nepotism.
Tensions at Turkey funerals of Kurds killed in Paris
AFP, Published on 06/01/2023
» MUS (TURKEY) - Security forces fired teargas and rubber bullets in eastern Turkey on Thursday outside the funeral of a Kurdish singer killed in Paris in December, an AFP correspondent said, as fellow victims were laid to rest elsewhere.
Turkey seeks new life for submerged tourist town
AFP, Published on 28/09/2020
» HASANKEYF (TURKEY) - Just two roofs poke through the vast expanse of an artificial lake that has swallowed a Turkish town whose caves and pre-Ottoman ruins once drew in global tourists.
Indonesia jails IS-linked couple who tried to assassinate minister
Reuters, Published on 25/06/2020
» An Indonesian couple with links to the Islamic State (IS) group who tried to assassinate the country's chief security minister were jailed Thursday.
Former Indonesian president Habibie dies
Published on 11/09/2019
» JAKARTA: Former Indonesian president B.J. Habibie, who came to power during the country's turbulent transition to democracy after former strongman leader Suharto stepped down in 1998, has died, his son said on Wednesday.
Indonesian court disbands IS-linked group for 'terrorism'
Reuters, Published on 31/07/2018
» JAKARTA: An Indonesian court disbanded the country's largest Islamic State-linked group, Jemaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), on Tuesday for "conducting terrorism" and affiliating itself with the foreign militant organisation.
Indonesia cleric gets death sentence for attacks
Reuters, Published on 22/06/2018
» JAKARTA: An Indonesian court on Friday sentenced to death a cleric linked to Islamic State, for masterminding from his jail cell a string of deadly militant attacks across the world's largest Muslim-majority country.
Indonesia seeks death for cleric accused of ordering attacks
Associated Press, Published on 18/05/2018
» JAKARTA: Indonesian prosecutors on Friday demanded death for radical Islamic cleric Aman Abdurrahman who is accused of ordering attacks including a January 2016 suicide bombing and gun attack in the capital Jakarta that killed four civilians and four attackers.
Another family behind new Indonesia suicide bombings: police
AFP, Published on 14/05/2018
» SURABAYA (INDONESIA) - A family of five, including a child, carried out the suicide bombing of a police headquarters in Indonesia's second city Surabaya on Monday, police said, a day after a deadly wave of attacks on churches staged by another family.
Four suicide bombers on motorbikes hit Indonesian police HQ
AFP, Published on 14/05/2018
» SURABAYA, Indonesia: Four militants on two motorcycles blew themselves up at a police headquarters in Indonesia's second city Surabaya on Monday, wounding at least 10 people including officers, authorities said, a day after a deadly wave of suicide bombings hit churches.