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Floods, fury and new calls for independence in Aceh

Thousands gathered at Baiturrahman Grand Mosque in Banda Aceh on August 15, 2026, to commemorate 21 years of peace between Indonesia and the separatist Free Aceh Movement, or GAM. Some participants raised GAM’s red, black and white crescent-star flag and chanted “Free Aceh,”

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Can an ‘eSUV’ e-bike really go from trail to town?

Have you ever wanted an electric bike that easily transitions from the drudgery of urban asphalt to adventures in gravel and dirt? That's what a subclass of so-called "electric SUV" (eSUV) e-bikes claims to do, with their wide, all-terrain tires and front and rear suspension,

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Are the Americans returning to Myanmar? They never really left

Adam Castillo, a former president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Myanmar who had lobbied for sanctions relief in exchange for US, was released in recent days after spending over three months in detention. In the same week, Time magazine’s Charlie Campbell sat down with

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Six big takeaways from a turbulent week of UN diplomacy

By Antoni Slodkowski UNITED NATIONS, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Limousines whisked world leaders away from the United Nations on Friday after a week of speeches, meetings and hallway diplomacy. While they reached no breakthroughs on the world's most intractable conflicts, talks on the

Pearl Jam Reveal New Drummer At Ohana Festival

After a handful of songs at Ohana Fest on Friday night, the “Eddie Vedder And Friends” set turned into a full-on Pearl Jam performance. (They are still scheduled to headline on Sunday.) It was the band’s first show since drummer Matt Cameron left last summer after 27 years.

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Time’s no longer on Israel’s side in America

For eight decades, the Israeli political and security establishment has operated on a premise so deeply embedded that it is rarely stated as a premise at all: that American support is not a policy but a condition of nature, as fixed as the Mediterranean coastline.

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