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"Felt Like A Wave": People Flee Into Streets After Strong Indonesia Jolt
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Indonesia on Tuesday triggering a tsunami warning and sending residents fleeing from their homes but causing only minor damage and injuring one person, authorities said.
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Frenchman Held For Alleged Child Molesting Kills Himself: Indonesia Police
A French national detained in Indonesia on suspicion of molesting over hundreds of children has died by apparent suicide, police said Monday.
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Frenchman Facing Death In Indonesia For Molesting Hundreds Of Kids
A French retiree could face the death penalty in Indonesia on charges that he molested over 300 children and beat those who refused to have sex with him, authorities said Thursday.
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Girl Kept As Sex Slave For 15 Years By Indonesian Shaman, Accused Charged
An elderly village witch doctor in Indonesia entrapped a 12-year-old girl and tricked her into having sex with him for the next 15 years by claiming to be possessed by the "jin", or spirit, of a young boy, police said on Tuesday.
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'You Look So Beautiful': Indonesians Celebrate The Dead In Ancient Ritual
The people of Tana Toraja, or "the land of Toraja", are mostly Christian, but adhere to old traditions whose roots trace back to animistic beliefs. This is common in Indonesia, a predominantly Muslim country of 250 million people that is also home to minority groups which espouse Hinduism, Buddhism, and traditional beliefs
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Indonesian Priest Injured In Church Attack
A knife-wielding man stabbed a Catholic priest and tried to set off an explosive device at a church in Indonesia on Sunday, police said, the latest attack on religious minorities in the mainly Muslim country.
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Indonesian Priest Injured In Church Attack
A knife-wielding man stabbed a Catholic priest and tried to set off an explosive device at a church in Indonesia on Sunday, police said, the latest attack on religious minorities in the mainly Muslim country.
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Planes Collide On Indonesia Runway, No Casualties: Officials
Two passenger planes collided late Monday on an airport runway in the Indonesian capital, an airline spokesman said, causing minor damage but no injuries to passengers.
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Indonesia Arrests 2 Over New Year Suicide Terror Plot
Indonesian police said today they have arrested two men, including a member of China's Uighur minority, allegedly involved in a planned New Year suicide attack in Jakarta.
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Powerful Earthquake Hits Eastern Indonesia, Reports of Minor Damage
A powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Indonesia today, US seismologists said, with some reports of minor property damage but no casualties recorded so far.
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In Indonesia, Minorities Under Threat From Muslim Hardliners
When a mob of Muslims swooped on a little church deep in rural Aceh in Indonesia this month, the local police were nowhere to be seen, although they had received warnings of a possible attack.
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Indonesia Jails 3 Chinese Uighurs For Trying to Join Islamist Militants
An Indonesian court sentenced three men from China's Uighur Muslim minority on Monday to six years in prison for conspiring with militant Islamists in Indonesia, a police spokesman said.
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Minor tsunami hits Japan after Chile earthquake
Small tsunami waves hit northern Japan early on Thursday following a powerful 8.2-magnitude earthquake thousands of kilometres away across the Pacific Ocean in Chile after officials issued an evacuation advisory for certain areas.
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Two mild earthquakes jolt parts of Gujarat, Maharashtra
Two minor earthquakes jolted Gujarat and Maharashtra today. While a quake measuring 4.0 on the Richter scale struck Rann of Kutch in Gujarat at 9 am, a 4.9-magnitude quake shook parts of Maharashtra including Mumbai, Pune and Satara two hours later.
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"Felt Like A Wave": People Flee Into Streets After Strong Indonesia Jolt
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Indonesia on Tuesday triggering a tsunami warning and sending residents fleeing from their homes but causing only minor damage and injuring one person, authorities said.
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Frenchman Held For Alleged Child Molesting Kills Himself: Indonesia Police
A French national detained in Indonesia on suspicion of molesting over hundreds of children has died by apparent suicide, police said Monday.
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Frenchman Facing Death In Indonesia For Molesting Hundreds Of Kids
A French retiree could face the death penalty in Indonesia on charges that he molested over 300 children and beat those who refused to have sex with him, authorities said Thursday.
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Girl Kept As Sex Slave For 15 Years By Indonesian Shaman, Accused Charged
An elderly village witch doctor in Indonesia entrapped a 12-year-old girl and tricked her into having sex with him for the next 15 years by claiming to be possessed by the "jin", or spirit, of a young boy, police said on Tuesday.
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'You Look So Beautiful': Indonesians Celebrate The Dead In Ancient Ritual
The people of Tana Toraja, or "the land of Toraja", are mostly Christian, but adhere to old traditions whose roots trace back to animistic beliefs. This is common in Indonesia, a predominantly Muslim country of 250 million people that is also home to minority groups which espouse Hinduism, Buddhism, and traditional beliefs
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Indonesian Priest Injured In Church Attack
A knife-wielding man stabbed a Catholic priest and tried to set off an explosive device at a church in Indonesia on Sunday, police said, the latest attack on religious minorities in the mainly Muslim country.
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Indonesian Priest Injured In Church Attack
A knife-wielding man stabbed a Catholic priest and tried to set off an explosive device at a church in Indonesia on Sunday, police said, the latest attack on religious minorities in the mainly Muslim country.
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Planes Collide On Indonesia Runway, No Casualties: Officials
Two passenger planes collided late Monday on an airport runway in the Indonesian capital, an airline spokesman said, causing minor damage but no injuries to passengers.
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Indonesia Arrests 2 Over New Year Suicide Terror Plot
Indonesian police said today they have arrested two men, including a member of China's Uighur minority, allegedly involved in a planned New Year suicide attack in Jakarta.
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Powerful Earthquake Hits Eastern Indonesia, Reports of Minor Damage
A powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Indonesia today, US seismologists said, with some reports of minor property damage but no casualties recorded so far.
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In Indonesia, Minorities Under Threat From Muslim Hardliners
When a mob of Muslims swooped on a little church deep in rural Aceh in Indonesia this month, the local police were nowhere to be seen, although they had received warnings of a possible attack.
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Indonesia Jails 3 Chinese Uighurs For Trying to Join Islamist Militants
An Indonesian court sentenced three men from China's Uighur Muslim minority on Monday to six years in prison for conspiring with militant Islamists in Indonesia, a police spokesman said.
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Minor tsunami hits Japan after Chile earthquake
Small tsunami waves hit northern Japan early on Thursday following a powerful 8.2-magnitude earthquake thousands of kilometres away across the Pacific Ocean in Chile after officials issued an evacuation advisory for certain areas.
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Two mild earthquakes jolt parts of Gujarat, Maharashtra
Two minor earthquakes jolted Gujarat and Maharashtra today. While a quake measuring 4.0 on the Richter scale struck Rann of Kutch in Gujarat at 9 am, a 4.9-magnitude quake shook parts of Maharashtra including Mumbai, Pune and Satara two hours later.
