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CNN's Ed Henry, their White House correspondent, recently spotted the President of the United States "walking in the footsteps of J...

In the posting of January 14, 2008, "Economic Indicator," there was a bad typographical error. The original, incorrect, text said...

After seeing millions murdered, scholars have asked "Why did the heavens not tremble?" But they do, each time another person dies ...

Sg., last night I heard a story about the stone six orphanage where on your birthday and on deathdays and on red days you'd bring unhull...

Returning to a familiar neighborhood after an absence of nearly two months it seemed that many kids were skinnier, though there were various...

General Suharto of Indonesia is fading fast, the news bulletins say. So when I came into the country, I started asking how people felt about...

The US press is reporting that on Thursday the American political system will begin the process of selecting the next President of the Unite...

Three years ago today, the tsunami hit Aceh. It was a cataclysm so vast that Acehnese don't talk about it all that much. It's easi...

After Mitt Romney accused Mike Huckabee of being soft on crime, Huckabee -- the nice guy in the US race -- responded by pointing out that a...

Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, the Indonesian cleric and political leader, says that the Bali bombers "were not terrorists but counter-terrori...

Last June, when President/General Susilo of Indonesia visited one of his provinces, in the Moluccas, he was greeted by local residents perfo...

News and Comment, http://www.newsc.blogspot.com/ Wednesday, December 12, 2007 9:21 AM US Eastern time) By Allan Nairn US intelligence offic...

The UN World Food Program estimates that, in the wake of Israel's cutoffs,"Food imports into the Gaza Strip are only enough to meet...

Hillary Clinton just pointed out that whoever holds the US presidency can, on both national and foreign matters, engage in "split-secon...

The phrase "knowing where the bodies are buried" has different meanings in Timor and Washington. In Washington, it means knowing s...

A headline in the Bangkok Post (November 27, 2007) says that ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra "faces up to 26 years in jail...

Crossing the Moei river from Thailand into Burma you see many river bathers. But if you look again more closely you notice they are all on ...

The Daily Telegraph of Australia carries a report of an extraordinary death-row press conference/ festive family visit (Indonesian death row...

In downtown Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, some Dior dresses just got dry-cleaned with tear gas, in an interesting illustration of the principle th...

Early estimates say that maybe 3,000 people have died in the Bangladesh cyclone and floods. And the footage shows that much poor-people'...