TOKYO (Reuters) – Indonesia’s President-elect Prabowo Subianto will visit Japan on April 2-3, where he is set to meet Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and other officials, Japan’s chief cabinet secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said on Monday. Prabowo’s Tokyo trip will follow his visit to Beijing to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday, the president-elect’s first…
Ethnic Rohingya people rescued from their capsized boat rest at a local government building in Samatiga, Aceh province, Indonesia, on March 20, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP A wooden boat carrying dozens of Rohingya Muslims capsized off Indonesia’s northernmost coast on Wednesday. Local fishermen rescued six refugees who said more people were still on the…
BEIJING/MANILA (Reuters) – A joint air patrol by the Philippines with the United States was aimed at protecting territory and national interests in the South China Sea, a Philippine military official said Tuesday, after Beijing accused Manila of stirring up trouble. Philippine fighter jets and a U.S. bomber plane flew together over the South China…
JAKARTA: Indonesia has ditched a controversial plan to buy 733 million euros ($790 million) worth of Mirage 2000-5 fighter jets previously used by Qatar, the defence ministry spokesperson said late on Saturday. “There is no purchase of Mirage jets. Even though it was planned, it has been cancelled … meaning there is no active contract,”…
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia has ditched a controversial plan to buy 733 million euros ($790 million) worth of Mirage 2000-5 fighter jets previously used by Qatar, the defence ministry spokesperson said late on Saturday. “There is no purchase of Mirage jets. Even though it was planned, it has been cancelled … meaning there is no…
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A U.N. peacekeeper in southern Lebanon was hurt when a group of young men attacked a patrol and tried to stop it from moving through their village, the U.N. mission said on Thursday. The incident took place on Wednesday night when residents of the village of Taybeh briefly blocked the peacekeepers’ patrol…
