Government allocates Rp300 bln for subsidized housing ownership credits

Denpasar, Bali (ANTARA News) - Public Housing Affairs Minister M Yusuf Asyari said the government had allocated funds amounting to Rp300 billion in 2007 for subsidized housing ownership credits. "The allocated funds were fully used up by late September 2007," the minister...

Third OPEC summit winds up

"The 3rd Summit of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was concluded on Sunday afternoon with the issuance of a declaration on "Challenge of Globalization and Dynamic Global Energy Market...

Saudi king to present award to ex-mining minister Soebroto

Riyadh (ANTARA News) - Saudi Arabian King Abdullah will bestow an award on Soebroto, a former Indonesian mining minister and OPEC secretary general, for changing the image of OPEC (Organization of the...

ANTARA Expected to provide positive information on Palestine and RI

"The signing of the MoU on news exchange was conducted by newly appointed president director of Antara Dr Ahmad Mukhlis Yusuf and Palestinian Ambassador to Indonesia Fariz Mehdawi. The cooperation could develop...

Sami Yusuf, Islamic rock star

"Sami Yusuf, star of a Muslim charity concert for Darfur Sunday, sings to the glory of Allah, but insists he is not a religious artist. Largely unknown here in the country where he grew up, the 27-year-old has...

Indonesian navy sends Nomad and warships to look for missing fishing boat

""The three warships have been patrolling in water area suspected to be the location where the MV Rajawali sunk. However, they have not found any clues of the ship wreckage or the missing crew members, so far,"...

Earthquake Rocks Indonesia’s Sumatra Island

"JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- A strong undersea earthquake rocked parts of Indonesia's Sumatra island Thursday, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties. The 6.7-magnitude quake that struck at...

US can count on Iranian help in Iraq if it changes methodology

The official Iranian news agency reported Thursday that the Iranian government is willing to work with the US to stabilize Iraq if the super power will change its curent approach toword the situation."The US can...

Africans rush to find Somalia peacekeepers

"Michel said after meeting Yusuf he was impressed by his commitment to reconciliation and the EU would release funding for the force that had been made conditional on the government reaching out to defeated Islamists and other parties. "I felt a sincere will ... to bring...

Somalia: Warlords Concur to Surrender Their Arms to the Government

"Senior Somali government leaders, including President Yusuf, have had a meeting with number of Somalia's warlords at presidential palace, Villa Somalia, in the capital Mogadishu. Among the warlords were Mohammed Qanyare Afrah, Muse Sudi Yalahow, Abdi Qeybded, Omar Finish and...

Somali And Kenyan Presidents Meet

"Somalia's interim president is in Kenya for talks with President Mwai Kibaki and other top security officials. Meanwhile, Kenyan authorities have arrested and detained at least eight people at a border crossing,...

Government moves slowly in Mogadishu

"MOGADISHU, Somalia - Leaders from Somalia's capital gathered Saturday where matters of importance are often debated and settled here: under the shade of a thorny tree. This one was located at a bombed-out military barracks on the edge of Mogadishu because the guest of honor,...

Sharia law is spreading

A stabbing case involving  Somali  youth in  south-east London was handled by an unofficial Somali "court" instead of the English justice system."Mr Yusuf told the programme he felt more bound by the traditional law of his birth than by the laws of his adopted...

Somali president describes attack - BBC News

" As a former warlord, President Yusuf has many enemies Somalia's interim President Abdullahi Yusuf has described how he narrowly escaped an assassination attempt by a suicide bomber. President Yusuf told the BBC the bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a...

Car bomb targeting Somali president kills five - Scotsman

" HASSAN YARE IN BAIDOA A CAR bomb killed five people and wounded several others outside parliament in Baidoa, Somalia's provincial capital yesterday in an assassination attempt on president Abdullahi Yusuf. Six attackers were killed in a gunbattle with Yusuf's bodyguards...

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