KARACHI— Saudi Arabia has launched the Makkah Route Initiative for Pakistani pilgrims for this year's Hajj at Jinnah International Airport in Karachi. This is the second airport in Pakistan to benefit from the initiative, which is part of Saudi (...)
Renewed eruptions from a remote Indonesian volcano have triggered fresh evacuation orders and sparked flight cancellations and airport closures this week with smoke, lava and volcanic gasses spewing out of the fiery mountain.
Mount Ruang, a (...)
RIYADH — The Saudi Ministry of Hajj and Umrah has launched the Nusuk pilgrim card, which will be in use for the forthcoming annual pilgrimage of Hajj 2024.
Minister of Hajj and Umrah Dr. Tawfiq Al-Rabiah released the Nusuk card by presenting its (...)
Earlier this year, Ai Qing was woken up in the middle of the night by angry chants outside her dormitory in northern Argentina.
She peered out of the window to see Argentine workers surrounding the compound and blockading the entrance with flaming (...)
Indonesian authorities on Wednesday ordered hundreds of villagers to evacuate following multiple eruptions of a remote island volcano, raising fears it could collapse into the sea and trigger a tsunami.
Mount Ruang, a 725-meter (2,400-foot) volcano (...)
Over 130 families have been evacuated after an explosion at a military ammunition warehouse near the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Saturday evening, an official said on Sunday.
The blast occurred at the warehouse owned by the Jayakarta Regional (...)
Indonesia's defense minister Prabowo Subianto has been declared the winner of last month's presidential election in the world's third-largest democracy.
Prabowo appealed for unity as his two rivals, Anies Baswedan and Ganjar Pranowo, vowed to (...)
The death toll from floods and landslides in the Indonesian province of West Sumatra has risen to 32, the country's National Disaster Mitigation Agency (NDMA) reported on Tuesday.
According to the agency, five of the province's 12 regencies declared (...)
Indonesia's Transport Ministry will launch an investigation after two Batik Air pilots fell asleep during a recent flight, according to state news agency Antara, citing the Ministry's civil aviation director-general M Kristi Endah Murni.
According (...)
Polls opened in the vast country of Indonesia on Wednesday with more than 200 million voters casting their ballots to elect a new president, in what is billed as the world's biggest single-day election.
The sprawling Southeast Asian nation, the (...)
More than 200 million eligible voters will head to the polls in Indonesia on Wednesday, in what is billed as the world's biggest single-day election.
The sprawling Southeast Asian nation, the world's third-largest electoral democracy and largest (...)
A once-feared army general, who ruled Indonesia with an iron fist for more than three decades, has a message for voters ahead of upcoming elections – from beyond the grave.
"I am Suharto, the second president of Indonesia," the former general says (...)
JAKARTA —Budiman Sujatmiko has lost none of the passion that he used to show as one of the boldest student opponents of Suharto, the soft-spoken but ruthless dictator who ruled Indonesia for 32 years.
"In the 1990s our challenge was (...)
There was a time when Prabowo Subianto's name would have spooked most Indonesians.
But now young voters appear to be charmed by the defense minister's slick makeover. The fiery ex-special forces commander dogged by allegations of human rights abuses (...)
Militant rebels in Indonesia's restive West Papua are urging their most feared comrade to release a New Zealand pilot held hostage for a year.
A group of armed fighters led by tribal warlord Eganius Koyega kidnapped Phillip Mehrtens on February 7, (...)
The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has appealed for action in the wake of a mob attack against refugees in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, on Wednesday.
Hundreds of young people stormed a building basement where scores of Rohingya refugees were sheltered, (...)
A furnace explosion at a Chinese-owned nickel factory in Indonesia on Sunday has killed at least 13 workers and injured 38 others, officials say.
The incident took place at a factory in the Morowali Industrial Park on the island of Sulawesi.
The (...)
Indonesia's Marapi volcano in West Sumatra province erupted on Sunday, spewing volcanic ash as high as 3,000 meters (9,843 ft) into the air, according to country's disaster management agency BNPB.
The 2,891-meter high volcano erupted at 2.54 p.m. (...)
The boss and three other officials of an Indonesian firm whose cough syrup was linked to the deaths of over 200 children have been sentenced to jail.
They were handed two-year prison sentences and fined 1bn Indonesian rupiah ($63,056; £51,786).
The (...)
HANGZHOU — The Saudi team concluded their participation in the 4th Asian Para Games "Hangzhou 2022", by achieving 9 medals, making it the best participation historically for Saudi Arabia since the first edition of the tournament.
During the Hangzhou (...)
HANGZHOU — Saudi rider Abdullah Al-Sharbati dominated the Arabian platform in the showjumping competition, clinching a gold medal on Friday at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou.
Al-Sharbati, 41, completed the course in 39.68 seconds, surpassing the (...)
HANGZHOU — Saudi Arabia's Abdulmalik Al-Murdhi has won the bronze medal in the jiu-jitsu 62-kilogram weight in the first day of the jiu-jitsu competition on Wednesday at the 19th Asian Games being held in Hangzhou, China. Al-Murdhi clinched the (...)
Social media app TikTok is suspending its online shopping service in Indonesia to comply with new rules in South East Asia's biggest economy.
The move will take effect at 17:00 Jakarta time (10:00 GMT).
The country's government says the regulations (...)
Indonesia has inaugurated its first high-speed railway, a $7.3bn (£5.9) project backed by China under its Belt and Road Initiative.
President Joko Widodo launched the service, which connects the capital Jakarta to Bandung, a top economic hub.
The (...)
An Indonesian court has sentenced a woman to two years in jail for violating the country's blasphemy law after she posted a video on social media site TikTok in which she said a Muslim prayer before eating pork.
The court in the city of Palembang, (...)