JAKARTA (Reuters) - Doctors were battling on Monday to save the life of former Indonesian President Suharto, who remains critically ill, while another of Southeast Asia's long-serving leaders visited his bedside. Mahathir Mohamad, the 82-year-old ...
Indonesian rescuers struggled on Thursday to pull out bodies and reach survivors following Central Java landslides, as floods blocked roads and damaged bridges in the area where over 80 people are feared dead, officials said. Thousands of people have ...
NUSA DUA, Indonesia, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Governments hailed a deal on Saturday to start negotiations to adopt a new climate pact, but environmental groups said the agreement lacked teeth. The deal binds the United States and China to greenhouse gas ...
NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Negotiators at climate talks in Bali tried to break a deadlock on Friday over emissions goals after the European Union accused the United States of blocking progress at the 190-nation meeting. The two-week talks, which ...
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged the world on Wednesday to agree a sweeping treaty to fight climate change by 2009, telling UN-led talks in Bali to act now on "the moral challenge of our generation". Ban said that the threat of global ...
JIMBARAN, Indonesia Rich and poor countries failed on Sunday to agree on a plan to open up trade in green goods, with Brazil fearing a major U.S.-EU proposal raised on the fringes of climate talks in Bali was a protectionist ruse. At the end of two ...
JAKARTA - Greenpeace has blocked a tanker carrying more than 30,000 tonnes of palm oil from leaving an Indonesian port to protest against forest destruction blamed on plantations, the environmental group said on Thursday. The protest came ...
(Repeating to recast headline with no changes in text) BOGOR, Indonesia, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Richer nations must take the lead in reducing carbon emissions, but developing nations should also play their part depending on their circumstances, ...
JAKARTA An Indonesian transport safety committee on Monday blamed the chief pilot of a Garuda Indonesia Boeing 737 for the plane's crash at Yogyakarta airport in March that killed 21 people. The committee's report said that 15 warnings were ignored as ...
JAKARTA -- A U.N. envoy said on Thursday he would press China to lean harder on Myanmar's junta to open dialogue with detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi following last month's brutal crackdown on democracy protests. Ibrahim Gambari praised ...
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