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July 12, 2021 A handout photo. Indonesian student Christopher Reinhart touches a Buddhist stupa at the Borobudur temple in Central Java. Christopher Reinhart Indonesia , the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, is seeking to preserve and promote the mystical 9th-century Buddhist Borobudur temple in Central Java amid growing intolerance, raising hopes it could escape the fate of Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Buddha statues. Minister of Religious Affairs Yaqut Cholil Qoumas said Borobudur oc...

Surfachem Announces New Leadership Roles, Business Restructure July 9, 2021 Contact Author Hannah Fink Close (Left to right) Jason Dearden Watts, John Heywood Sponsored According to the company, the specialized business units will provide tailored support to its customers through more specialized market, product, regulatory and formulation knowledge alongside an accelerated rate of product innovation. As for the new leadership roles, Jason Dearden-Watts has been appointed as head of...

The Victoria Cross-holder’s lawyers are presenting him as a professional soldier who never would have murdered prisoners.

Its one of the worst Utah droughts in the past 20 years, and the number of human-caused wildfires is nearly double the average so far this season. Zion National Park officials and Color Country Interagency Fire managers held a press conference just outside the south entrance Thursday to ask for the publics increased help in suppressing wildfire danger. "The conditions that were seeing this year we have seen in the past only one or two times in the recorded weather charts and fuels dangers histo...

Last modified on Wed 14 Apr 2021 07.38 EDT Simone Biles, Gymnastics The 24-year-old from suburban Houston, who has won every major team and individual all-around competition she’s entered since her senior debut in 2013, is favored to become the first woman to repeat as Olympic all-around champion in 53 years. The 19-time world champion will also take a second crack at becoming the first US woman in any sport to win five golds at a single Olympics (team, all-around, vault, floor and beam), a f...

While Indonesia and Malaysia remain publicly supportive of Palestine and refuse to establish ties with Israel, both countries have successfully pursued a secret trade and diplomatic relationship with Tel Aviv for decades.

As we enjoy our few cool weeks of spring, we hit one last cold snap that brought in a good bit of rain … but it has otherwise been a very dry month. The dry warm weather invites the pest and disease problems that we struggle with through our hot Florida summers. One such issue has gotten a lot of attention this year, the tussock moth. Marion and surrounding counties have seen large infestations of them already over the last 2-3 weeks; they have defoliated our oak trees, covered the front of ...

Police will allege the 19-year-old attempted to engage in a terrorist act. Police say they suspect two incidents that occurred earlier in the year – a fire lit on February 18 in bushland outside of Melbourne and a public assault on a person in metropolitan Melbourne on March 10 – could have been motivated by religious extremism. Victoria Police Counter Terrorism Command Assistant Commissioner Michael Hermans said investigators believed the risk posed by the three individuals had been ...

03:19 EDT, 7 March 2021 14 shares Fears right wing groups breeding out of Melbourne could try on a Capitol Hill-style riot are growing amid an escalation in right-wing activity.  On Monday, police nabbed two men linked to a far right group over a shocking incident that saw a security guard allegedly bashed on a city street. The disturbing incident comes hot on the heels of increased sightings of neo-Nazi groups congregating en masse in country Victoria.  The disturbing incident comes hot o...

One terror expert says Australia's move to ban the UK-based Sonnenkrieg Division marks a "significant" step towards countering the threat posed by right-wing extremism.