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JAKARTA: Indonesian authorities have ended rescue operations at a landfill collapse that killed seven people as all those who were at the site have been accounted for, an official said on Tuesday (Mar 10).A mountain of garbage collapsed on Sunday at the Bantargebang landfill, the largest in the country, triggered by heavy rains.Rescuers wrapped up the search operation at the site on the outskirts of Jakarta, after finding the last of seven victims buried in the landfill, said Desiana Kartika Bahari, head of the local rescue agency. Six people survived the incident. On Monday, the agency had said that four people…
NEW DELHI: Prospects for an India-United States trade pact remain in doubt, a week after…
NEW DELHI: An Indian court acquitted the former chief minister of the capital Delhi on…
BEIJING: China stressed the need for more proactive and effective economic policies, and better policy…
BEIJING: Two major Myanmar-based criminal groups behind cross-border telecom scams have been “completely dismantled”, China’s…
BANGKOK: A Thai soldier lost his leg on Friday (Feb 27) in a landmine blast…
JAKARTA: An Indonesian court has jailed nine people in a major corruption case involving subsidiaries…
MANILA: The navies of the Philippines, the US and Japan trained alongside each other in…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan bombed major cities in Afghanistan including the capital Kabul on Friday (Feb 27),…
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COLLECTIVE GLOBAL HEALTH SECURITYSo the real defence starts overseas, in countries where the virus is…
Arun alleged that a specific group of “agenda movers” is deliberately demonising Hindu temples to cultivate a polarised…
Indonesia navy’s chief of staff Muhammad Ali previously told reporters on Feb 6 that the…
BANGKOK: A Thai political party that came second in this month’s vote filed a criminal…
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