Author: Isla

In January, a draft presidential regulation (perpres) on the Indonesian National Armed Forces’ (TNI) Role in Counterterrorism was released. Much like an earlier version released in 2020, the draft outlines three main counterterrorism functions for the military: prevention, which grants authority for the TNI to carry out intelligence, territorial, information, and “miscellaneous” operations for counterterrorism purposes; enforcement, which permits TNI’s use of force in response to terrorist acts that, among others, threaten the president and vice president, targets strategic national infrastructure, or poses danger to Indonesia’s state ideology and sovereignty; and recovery, which the draft leaves largely unspecified.  As in…

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Newsfrom Japan Society Jun 12, 2026 21:22 (JST) Tokyo, June 12 (Jiji Press)–Seedlings of Beni Princess, a premium citrus variety developed by the western Japan prefecture of Ehime, may have been leaked to China, Japanese agriculture minister Norikazu Suzuki said Friday.The agriculture ministry learned last year that seedlings with a name similar to the Japanese variety were being sold on a Chinese website.Since receiving this information from the ministry, the Ehime prefectural government has been working to determine the facts.In 2005, the Ehime prefectural government began breeding Beni Princess from Beni Madonna, whose fruit has a jelly-like texture, and Kanpei,…

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For U.S. media and investors only DUBLIN, June 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc (Nasdaq: JAZZ) today announced top-line results from the Phase 3 LAGOON trial, conducted by PharmaMar, evaluating Zepzelca® (lurbinectedin) in patients with relapsed (second-line) metastatic small cell lung cancer (SCLC). The trial did not meet its primary endpoint of overall survival (OS) evaluating Zepzelca as monotherapy or in combination with irinotecan compared to investigators’ choice of topotecan or irinotecan. No new safety signals were identified with Zepzelca monotherapy or in combination with irinotecan, and the overall safety profiles of the investigational arms were consistent with the…

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The Hong Kong government has granted 1,000 restaurants the city’s first permits to allow dogs into their premises starting on July 9. The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) said on Friday that it “conducted an open balloting today and allocated 1,000 quotas for allowing dogs to enter food premises according to the ballot result.” Pixel, the HKFP news hound, welcomes the move. File photo: Tom Grundy/HKFP. Among the 1,000 restaurants, 343 are located on Hong Kong Island, 326 in Kowloon, and 331 in the New Territories. With 111 restaurants granted permits, Wan Chai has the highest number of dog-friendly…

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London mayor Sadiq Khan has urged Londoners and visitors to support the capital’s healthcare and other frontline workers in the wake of significant increases in reports of abuse.The mayor is sending messages of support to workers across the capital to honour everything they do for London as part of his “Loved and Wanted” campaign.The campaign was launched last year to celebrate the capital’s diversity in the face of rising fear, hatred and division online and on the streets.The campaign has included creating a network of community spaces to help London’s diverse communities access support services and to provide a space…

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Ever since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, women’s bodies have been the business of the state. In the 1950s, labour for state-controlled work units was organised according to women’s menstrual cycles. Then for decades, there was the one-child policy.Across vast swathes of the country the policy was enforced with a brutal severity. As well as fines for additional children, women were forced to have abortions and subjected to forced sterilisations.Now, women in China are facing new forms of pressure from the government as China battles a fresh challenge – a falling birth rate. Women are…

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Leadership in OEM segment and commitment to global standards recognised at national forum CEAT Kelani Holdings has been adjudged the Best Tyre Manufacturer in the ‘Component Manufacturer’ Category at the country’s inaugural Automobile Industry Awards presented by the Automobile Industry Council (AIC) of Sri Lanka, in a significant endorsement of the company’s leadership in the country’s fast-evolving vehicle assembly sector. The awards were presented at Temple Trees at a ceremony attended by government ministers, senior public officials, industry leaders and stakeholders from across Sri Lanka’s automobile ecosystem. Conceived as a national platform to recognise excellence, innovation and sustainability, the awards…

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The on-and-off U.S. sanctions on Russian oil and the flipping U.S. position regarding India’s oil purchases from Russia highlight the double standards of the Western nations, Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar said on Friday.India turned en masse to Russian oil in 2022, when the U.S. and the EU imposed sanctions on Moscow due to the invasion of Ukraine. Four years later, India is a major buyer of Russia’s crude and Russia is India’s single-largest oil supplier.“At that time, the US specifically asked India to buy Russian oil to stabilise the oil market,” Jaishankar was quoted as saying at an event…

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