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Baturaja (Indonesia) (AFP) - Thousands of troops from Indonesia, the United States and allies held a live-fire drill Friday as part of what a top US general said was Washington's efforts to prevent a regional conflict after China's "destabilising actions" around Taiwan. The United States and its Asian allies have expressed growing concern about China's increasing assertiveness in the Pacific, but Washington said the drills were not aimed at any nation even though they were larger than previous training missions. The exercise in Indonesia known as "Super Garuda Shield" came after Beijing stage...
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New York (AFP) - Indonesia's decision to suspend palm oil exports in the face of domestic shortages has pushed vegetable oil prices to new highs, further tightening a market already on edge due to the war in Ukraine and global warming. The prices of palm, soybean, European rapeseed and even its Canadian GMO counterpart, canola oil, have reached historic highs following Indonesia's announcement on Wednesday. "We already had problems with soybeans in South America, with canola in Canada," said Philippe Chalmin, an economics professor at Paris-Dauphine University in France, stating that both crop...
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Jakarta (AFP) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday began a Southeast Asia tour with a first stop in Jakarta that paralleled the visit of a senior Russian official. After talks with Blinken, Indonesian President Joko Widodo hosted Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev, a close associate of Russia's President Vladimir Putin, Indonesian officials said. Arriving after G7 foreign ministers' talks dominated by tensions with Russia, Blinken met with Widodo and "expressed support for Indonesia's leadership in the Indo-Pacific, as the world's third-largest democracy and a str...
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Washington (AFP) - A Chicago woman who spent seven years jailed in Bali for helping kill her mother at a luxury hotel was arrested Wednesday upon her return from Indonesia, the Justice Department said. Heather Mack, 26, was taken into custody when she arrived at Chicago's O'Hare airport after being freed early on good behavior from a Bali prison where she had been sentenced to 10 years for the 2014 murder. She was convicted in 2015 for working with her boyfriend to kill her mother while they were on vacation on the Indonesian island and then stuffing the body into a suitcase that they left in ...
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Denpasar (Indonesia) (AFP) - American Heather Mack, convicted as a pregnant teenager of helping to kill her mother at a luxury hotel in Bali, was deported Tuesday from Indonesia along with her now six-year-old daughter, immigration officials said. Mack, 25, was flown back to the United States after being released last week from a Bali prison nearly three years early for good behaviour. "It is confirmed that she has departed", the Jakarta airport Immigration's spokesperson Sam Fernando told AFP Tuesday evening. In a case dubbed the "suitcase murder", Mack was handed a 10-year jail term in 2015...
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Washington (AFP) - Indonesia, hard-hit by the coronavirus pandemic, became the first country to approve the new vaccine for Covid-19 created by US-based Novavax, the company announced Monday. The approval will give Indonesia, which has strained to obtain adequate supplies of coronavirus vaccine for its 270 million people, first access to the vaccine, which will be manufactured in India under the brand Covovax. The vaccine uses a different technology than those which already have gained general approval and circulated around the world. Unlike the mRNA products from BioNTech/Pfizer, Moderna and ...
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Denpasar (Indonesia) (AFP) - An American woman convicted as a pregnant teenager of helping to kill her mother at an Indonesian luxury hotel was released from prison on Friday after six years behind bars. In a case dubbed the 'suitcase murder', Heather Mack was handed a 10-year jail term in 2015 while her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer got 18 years for the murder of Chicago socialite Sheila von Wiese Mack on the holiday island of Bali. Schaefer beat the 62-year-old victim to death with a fruit bowl during an argument at the five-star St. Regis resort. The couple then stuffed the woman's body into a s...
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Bali (Indonesia) (AFP) - An American woman convicted with her boyfriend of killing her mother and stuffing the body in a suitcase at a luxury Bali hotel is to be freed from prison early, her lawyer said Monday. In 2015, teenager Heather Mack was handed a 10-year jail term while her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer got 18 years for the murder of Chicago socialite Sheila von Wiese Mack on the Indonesian holiday island. Schaefer beat the 62-year-old victim to death with a fruit bowl during a heated argument at the five-star St. Regis resort, before the couple abandoned the suitcase containing the battere...
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Washington (AFP) - US military prosecutors have filed formal charges against an Indonesian Islamic extremist and two others in the 2002 Bali bombings and 2003 Jakarta attack, the Pentagon said Thursday. The charges were filed nearly 18 years after the three were captured in Thailand and after each has spent more than 14 years in the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The first charged was Indonesian militant Riduan Isamuddin, better known by his nom de guerre Hambali, the leader of the Indonesian jihadist group Jemaah Islamiyah and believed to have been Al-Qaeda's top representative i...
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Denpasar (Indonesia) (AFP) - A gay American couple is being deported from Bali after viral tweets that called the Indonesian resort island "queer friendly". The firestorm started when Kristen Gray tweeted over the weekend that she was enjoying "an elevated lifestyle at a much lower cost of living" after moving to the island from Los Angeles with her girlfriend. Praising the benefits of Bali, she said it was "queer friendly" and home to a "black in Bali community". She also promoted an e-book she was selling that told people how to bypass strict regulations barring foreigners from visiting duri...
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