Google’s investment in Indonesia’s ride-hailing company GoTo wasn’t in anyway connected to the Education Ministry’s decision to procure Chromebooks for schools during COVID-19 pandemic, three former Google executives testified in a Jakarta court share.google/JAeT4jCUYEhI...
Indonesia's rights commission said at least 12 Papuan civilians died of gunshot wounds when the Indonesian armed forces carried out "an enforcement operation" on Tuesday against a rebel group in the central Papuan village of Kembru www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/20...
Stewart Copeland, best known as the drummer with The Police, teamed up with naturalist Martyn Stewart for "Wild Concerto" from 38,000 hours of recordings. Their album combines music with the sounds of animals www.youtube.com/watch?v=acrj...
Qatar, the gas-rich Gulf nation, is in a state of “strategic shock” after the #IranWar dealt a serious blow to its economy, sending ripples around the world www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/w...
Michael Shane Neal, perhaps America's greatest living portraitist, recently fulfilled a long-held ambition: to paint a living president: Joe Biden. He follows in the footsteps of famed artists Everett Raymond Kinstler and John Singer Sargent www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f0w...
Woodworker George Nakashima (1905-1990) is a giant of 20th century furniture design. His legacy is continuing through his daughter, Mira, who took the reins of the company he founded, Nakashima Woodworkers, in Pennsylvania www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Dr4...
The renewable energy company Panthalassa says it has a solution to the proliferation of AI data centers, which consume massive amounts of energy and are the cause of increased carbon pollution: sea-based data centers, powered by wave energy www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkDy...
Interview with Annie Lennox about her long-awaited visual memoir: Retrospective. She recounts the most thrilling moments from her legendary career, and some of the tender ones from life off stage www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuLd...
The Police drummer Stewart Copeland gave a tour of his Los Angeles studio, where custom percussion, rare instruments, and nature-inspired sounds come together in his latest project "Wild Concerto" www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xe_...
An overcrowded fishing trawler left Teknaf in southern Bangladesh and was bound for Malaysia. It sank after a couple of days at sea. The passengers were a mix of Bangladeshi nationals and Rohingya refugees, some of them children www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/w...
The Dutch Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee will convene a hearing on the human rights situation in West Papua with a screening of Daan Veldhuizen "The Promise" www.youtube.com/watch?v=XduD...
Michael Rubino has 19 children and he's finally meeting them all for the first time. When he was in his 30s, Rubino became a sperm donor to help other families. He didn't want to remain anonymous, and the children started contacting him www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H3M...
The Wikimedia Foundation will hold talks with the Indonesian government after Jakarta threatened to block Wikipedia over registration rules the firm says "departs from international human rights norms" www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/20...
In Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez has changed 17 ministers, replaced military commanders and installed new diplomats. She has also overseen the detention of at least three businessmen tied to Maduro and cut off most of his family from oil contracts www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/w...
Pope Leo was in Angola on Friday for the third leg of his tour of Africa after he held a mass in Cameroon in front of roughly 120,000 people. His Africa trip marked by open clash with US President Donald Trump www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAUC...
For more than six centuries, the Kasepuhan Gelar Alam community in Bogor, West Java, has made food security the foundation of its traditions. Planting rice is a sacred obligation that must be carried out by every member of the community www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBMz...
Michael Crook, whose father is British and mother is Canadian, was born in Beijing. Six generations of his family have lived in China, working as teachers. Fluent in Beijing dialect, Crook has witnessed the changes in China's education www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmut...
The origin of Paddington appeared when author Michael Bond seeing Jewish children arriving in Britain during World War II with name cards around their necks. That inspired the beloved bear, and a Rhode Island artist is helping to keep the story alive www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qry...
In Vermont, Ben & Jerry’s ice cream factory is recycling food waste into energy, diverting food waste from the landfill and converting it into electricity www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmC8...
NATO’s European members are unable to integrate their military forces independently of the U.S. European navies use 29 different types of destroyers while the U.S. uses only four; their armies use 17 types of tanks while the U.S. uses just one
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Archbishop Sarah Mullally, the head of the Church of England, stood with the pope in his “courageous call for peace.” Leo’s comments have drawn the ire of U.S. President Donald Trump, who criticized the pope for being “terrible for foreign policy" share.google/cC6lv7UEWNqU...
Indonesian prosecutors arrested Hery Susanto, the country's chief ombudsman, just six days after his appointment, for allegedly taking a bribe from a local nickel company www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/20...
The acid attack against rights activist Andrie Yunus will proceed to a military court after Indonesian military prosecutors handed over the case dossier to the Jakarta Military Court despite criticism about transparency www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/20...
Witnesses said Indonesian soldiers and police officers opened fire in public areas, including near Moanemani market, killing several Papuans and before pursuing residents into surrounding villages in Dogiyai regency in Highlands Papua www.teaonews.co.nz/2026/04/15/n...
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For decades, two kinds of scarcity kept the internet safe — or safe enough. Writing software was hard, so the people who did it were trained, careful and few. Now, thanks to new A.I. tools, anyone can write code www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...
The Sisters of Charity of New York, an order that helped shape the city for two centuries, decided to complete its mission when the last sister dies. The only question left is how to finish well www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...
A decade into President Xi Jinping’s “Sinicization” of religion campaign, Catholic communities across China face strict surveillance and travel restrictions. Underground Catholic communities are pressured to join the official church www.hrw.org/news/2026/04...
Helena Kobogau, a Papuan woman and documentary filmmaker, passed away in Timika today. Helena starred in the documentary "Mamapolitan: The Story of Papuan Women in Jakarta." #RIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIft...
