Washington - The Biden administration on Thursday approved a nearly $14 billion arms sale to Indonesia, as the U.S. presses ahead with steps it believes will help counter China's increasing assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific.The State Department annou...

WHITE HOUSE - Facing growing pressure from impatient state governors, the Biden administration acknowledged for the first time that it is developing plans to guide the country away from the pandemic's emergency phase toward a more relaxed national re...

GENEVA -- The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide has surpassed 400 million, according to the latest data from the World Health Organization. Globally, as of 5:13 pm CET (1613 GMT) on Thursday, there have been 402,044,502 confirmed cases of ...

Click to View Gallery of images (showing 1 of 4)The AFP will mark this International Women and Girls in Science Day by showcasing dedicated female members using science and technology to keep Australians safe.At the helm is AFP Chief Forensic Sci...

JAKARTA, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia will purchase 42 Rafale warplanes and two Scorpene-class submarines from France to update its defense equipment. The deal came after Indonesia's Minister of Defense Prabowo Subianto met his French counterpart Fl...

JAKARTA, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia on Thursday confirmed 40,618 new COVID-19 cases, raising its tally of infections to 4,667,554, the Health Ministry said. According to the ministry, the death toll from COVID-19 in the country rose by 74 to 144,8...

President Emmanuel Macron hailed the contract with Indonesia as a tribute to ?French industrial excellence?Indonesia has inked deals to purchase the first batch of French-made Dassault Rafale multipurpose fighter jets and two Scorpene-class submarine...

Paris [France], February 10 (ANI): French Defense Minister Florence Parly on Thursday said Indonesia has agreed with France on the purchase of 42 Rafale fighter jets. "It is official: Indonesia has ordered 42 Rafale fighter jets. Our strategic partne...

He hasserved with the Royal Australian Navy for 10 years, worked as a high-level fraud and forensics manager for 20 years and speaks Malay and Bahasa Indonesia.

Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne has confirmed Australia will donate $12million to Indonesia, which is ravaged by Covid-19 infections with 61,00 deaths.

Researchers said the prints, which were found in Tibet, were deliberately formed in a pattern. If they are seen as art, the prints are more than 100,000 years older than the earliest cave paintings.

Australia has a future beyond coal exports with the International Monetary Fund noting lithium, cobalt and nickel would be in demand as the world transitioned to renewable energy in coming decades.

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], February 10 (ANI/PRNewswire):The 5-year-old TE platform made it into the Top 50 Accounting and Finance list. ITILITE is a global TE leader with 300 customers and 500k users in USA, South East Asia and India. Operating a...

ABU DHABI, 9th February, 2022 (WAM) -- Mohammed Saif Al-Suwaidi, Director General of the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development, received Husin Bagis,...

JAKARTA, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia is seeking 8.58 billion U.S. dollars in investment to shut down a number of coal-fired power plants as the country is currently expediting the transition into green energy. The country's coordinating minister for...

JAKARTA, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia on Wednesday confirmed 46,843 new COVID-19 cases, raising the total tally to 4,626,936, said its Ministry of Health. The ministry's senior official Siti Nadia Tarmizi said on Wednesday that the total number of co...

Tokyo [Japan], February 9 (ANI): Marc Marquez and Pol Espargaro launch the 2022 Honda Team livery as the start of a new season rapidly approaches. The 2022 season begins with renewed motivation for the Honda Team. Despite experiencing hardships both ...

JAKARTA -- Indonesia has expected to earn a minimum investment worth at least 200-250 trillion rupiahs (about 13.9-17.4 billion U.S. dollars) from G20 presidency, mainly for the downstream industry in minerals and coal. "We want to focus on the downs...

© Provided by Xinhua For the first time after a nearly two-year pause, the Indonesian resort island of Bali officially reopened international direct flights, a move aimed at reviving the tourism sector that has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic...

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Editor's note: Images of PSO Dunning and the medal ceremony available via HightailAFP Protective Service Officer Adam Dunning, who was shot and killed while on patrol in Solomon Islands in 2004, has been posthumously awarded four medals commemorating...

TORONTO, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- Buses in the Canadian city of Toronto are decorated with Tiger images to mark the Lunar New Year for the first time, and they are intended to better exhibit the Chinese culture, the designer of the bus decorations told Xin...

It's a nutritional food source, an alternative to plastic, has medicinal properties and can help to limit global heating: Marine algae might just be the next weapon in the fight against climate change.From February 9 to 11, the French town of Brest i...

JAKARTA, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia on Tuesday confirmed 37,492 new COVID-19 cases, taking its tally of infections to 4,580,093, the country's health ministry said. According to the ministry, the death toll from COVID-19 in the country rose by 83 t...

by Dames Alexander Sinaga JAKARTA, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- Balinese tourism entrepreneur I Putu Winastra has been energized recently as his travel agency has received more bookings since the reopening of Indonesia's resort island of Bali for all internati...

Jakarta [Indonesia], February 8 (ANI/Xinhua): Indonesia on Tuesday confirmed 37,492 new COVID-19 cases, taking its tally of infections to 4,580,093, the country's health ministry said. According to the ministry, the death toll from COVID-19 in the co...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - The Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has barred Myanmar's military-appointed foreign minister from attending an upcoming conference after the United Nations Security Council called for an end to "all forms of vio...

JAKARTA, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Indonesian government has decided to upgrade the public mobility restriction protocol, locally known as PPKM, to level 3 alert status, following the wave of COVID-19 Omicron variant. The country's Coordinating Minister...

New Delhi [India], February 7 (ANI): The ASEAN-India high-level conference on renewable energy, being organized by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy and the Ministry of External Affairs from February 7 to 8 commenced on Monday virtually. The h...

At least 13 people were killed and dozens more injured after a tour bus carrying factory workers to a beach holiday crashed on Indonesia's Java island, according to police.The bus and its 47 passengers were headed from Sukoharjo in Central Java to a ...

JAKARTA -- Thirteen people were killed and eight others wounded in a bus accident in Indonesia's Yogyakarta province on Sunday, Spokesman for the National Search and Rescue Office Yusuf Latief told Xinhua over phone. The accident occurred in Bantul d...

JAKARTA, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia on Sunday confirmed 36,057 new COVID-19 cases, raising its tally of infections to 4,516,480, the country's Health Ministry said. According to the ministry, the death toll from COVID-19 in the country rose by 57 t...

Jakarta [Indonesia], February 6 (ANI/Xinhua): Thirteen bodies have been found from a bus accident in Indonesia's Yogyakarta on Sunday, Spokesman for the National Search and Rescue Office Yusuf Latief told Xinhua over phone. The accident occurred at a...

Navi Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], February 6 (ANI): Australian star Sam Kerr won the top goalscorer award of the AFC Women's Asian Cup India 2022 with her seven-goal haul proving unbeatable. Although Australia's campaign was ended in the quarter-fin...

Jakarta [Indonesia], February 6 (ANI): Jammu and Kashmir has been moving in the right direction after the abolition of Article 370 in 2019 as more jobs have been created through various projects by the Government of India, according to an Indonesia-b...

GAITHERSBURG, Md. - Jan. 19, 2022 - Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX), a biotechnology company dedicated to developing and commercializing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, today announced that Australia's Therapeutic Goods Adminis...