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As the death toll from a Sunday earthquake in Indonesia’s Lombok Island keeps rising, the resort has been rocked by yet another strong earthquake.
Terrified holidaymakers rushed for boats and planes to leave Indonesia's Lombok Island Tuesday after it suffered a second deadly quake within a week, as rescuers scrambled to reach remote areas where survivors are in urgent need of food and shelter.
Scenes of destruction have greeted rescue workers across Indonesia's resort island of Lombok, after an earthquake of magnitude 6.9 killed at least 98 people and prompted an exodus of tourists rattled by the second powerful quake in a week.
Indonesia mounted a rescue operation Monday to reach more than 500 hikers and guides stranded by landslides on an active volcano on Lombok, a day after a powerful earthquake struck the holiday island.
A strong earthquake measuring 6.4 has struck an island east of the Indonesian tourist resort of Bali, leaving at least 10 people dead.
Indonesian villagers armed with knives, hammers and clubs slaughtered 292 crocodiles in revenge for the death of a man killed by a crocodile at a breeding farm, an official said.
Malaysia’s former prime minister Najib Razak has been officially charged with corruption in connection with money theft from a state fund.
At least 29 people died after a ferry sank near Indonesia's Sulawesi Island, officials said on Wednesday, as rescue teams searched for dozens of missing passengers a day after the country's latest ferry disaster.
The Indonesian government faces accusations of involvement in around 100 cases of unlawful killings over the past eight years in its easternmost province of Papua.
Indonesian prosecutors have demanded death penalty for a cleric, who is on trial for his alleged role in a series of attacks in the capital Jakrata.