Indonesian rescuers on Thursday were searching for 29 people who remained missing after a ferry sank and six people died, including a 3-year-old boy and his mother.

Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki has erupted with giant ash and smoke plumes again after forcing evacuations of villages and flight cancelations, including to and from the resort island of Bali.

A court on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali has sentenced a British man to 10 months in jail for drug offenses after a charge that could carry the death penalty was dropped.

Indonesian police said on Monday they arrested an Australian man for allegedly smuggling cocaine on the tourist island of Bali, a charge that could carry the death penalty.

A British man on trial for drug offenses has pleaded for leniency in a court on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali after a charge of trafficking that could carry the death penalty was dropped.

The Pentagon has transferred two Malaysian detainees at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. military prison to their home country.

Several international airlines have canceled flights to and from Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali because of an ongoing volcanic eruption.

Prosecutors in Indonesia have demanded an eight-month medical rehabilitation for an Australian man charged with possessing methamphetamine on the tourist island of Bali, after his earlier charge of drug trafficking was dropped which would have carried the death penalty.

Indonesia’s top investment official says the government has proposed building an electric vehicle battery plant to Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

Elon Musk has traveled to Indonesia’s resort island of Bali to launch Starlink satellite internet service in the world’s largest archipelago nation.

A military panel at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has recommended 23 years in detention for two Malaysian men in connection with deadly 2002 bombings in Bali.

Relatives of some of the more than 200 people killed in 2002 bombings on the resort island of Bali are testifying at a sentencing hearing at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping’s have no shortage of difficult issues to discuss when they meet Wednesday in the San Francisco area.

The White House says President Joe Biden will attend next month’s Group of 20 summit in New Delhi, India.

The federal government is looking to ban importation and exportation of a species of tropical fish that conservation groups have long said is exploited by the pet trade.

An attorney for the Chicago woman facing federal conspiracy charges in the 2014 killing of her mother during a luxury vacation in Bali says she plans to plead guilty.

A direct flight from China has landed in Indonesia’s resort island of Bali for the first time in nearly three years after the route was suspended due to the pandemic.

Australia’s government says it is seeking assurances from Indonesia that the man convicted of making the bombs used in the 2002 Bali terrorist attacks would continue to be monitored after his release from prison.

An Islamic militant convicted of making the explosives used in the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people has been paroled after serving about half of his original 20-year prison sentence.

The Biden administration has signed off on two new significant arms sales to Taiwan in approvals that are sure to rankle China.

President Joe Biden is strengthening U.S. policy aimed at stemming sexual violence in war conflict zones.

China and India, after months of refusing to condemn Russia’s war in Ukraine, did not stand in the way of the release of a statement by the world’s leading economies that harshly criticized Moscow.

President Joe Biden is asking Congress to provide more than $37 billion in aid to Ukraine.

President Joe Biden and other leaders of the Group of 20 top economies will have the chance to discuss the world’s most pressing problems at their summit in Bali, Indonesia.

President Joe Biden says Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping has agreed to resume crucial talks on climate between the two countries.

President Joe Biden says he doubts there are enough votes in Congress to codify abortion rights.

Discord over Russia's war on Ukraine and festering tensions between the U.S. and China are ominous backdrops for world leaders gathering in Indonesia's tropical Bali island for a summit of the Group of 20 biggest economies.

A showdown between Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin isn’t happening, but the fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and growing tensions between China and the West will be at the fore when leaders of the world’s biggest economies gather in tropical Bali this week.

People affected by the 2002 Bali bombings gathered on the Indonesian resort island to commemorate 20 years since the twin bombing that killed 202 people.

Thiolina Marpaung still panics anytime she smells smoke, immediately recalling the bomb explosion that upended her life 20 years ago.

LGBTQ rights activists in Peru have rallied outside the prosecutor’s office to demand an autopsy be performed on a Peruvian transgender man who died earlier this month after being detained on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali.

Environment officials from the Group of 20 leading rich and developing nations have met on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali for talks on climate action and the global impact of the war in Ukraine, with Indonesia’s environment minister saying the world is already facing a climate crisis.

Australia’s leader says it’s upsetting that Indonesia has reduced the prison sentence of the bombmaker in the Bali attack that killed 202 people.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the U.S. and South Korea should deepen their trade ties to avoid letting other countries use their market positions to unfair advantage.

Financial leaders of the Group of 20 richest and biggest economies agreed on the need to jointly tackle global ills such as inflation and food crises, but failed to bridge differences over the war in Ukraine.

Top financial officials from the Group of 20 leading rich and developing nations are meeting on the Indonesian island of Bali seeking strategies to counter the repercussions from the war in Ukraine, inflation and other global crises.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has urged leaders of major economies to work together in countering the impact from Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Australia’s top agriculture official has met with his Indonesian counterpart to discuss ways to stop a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak that has infected hundreds of thousands of cattle in Indonesia and prevent the outbreak from spreading to Australia.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will pay a brief condolence visit to Japan next week following the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Deeply divided top diplomats from the world's richest and largest developing nations have failed to find common ground over Russia's war in Ukraine and its global impacts.

Foreign ministers from the Group of 20 leading rich and developing nations are gathering in Indonesia’s resort island of Bali for talks bound to be dominated by the conflict in Ukraine despite an agenda focused on global cooperation and food and energy security.

It doesn’t really matter what time of year it is, there’s almost always a beach calling my name somewhere.

Indonesia is bracing for a third wave of COVID-19 infections as the highly transmissible omicron variant drives a surge in new cases.

Indonesia is lifting its ban on Boeing’s 737 Max aircraft, three years after one crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all 189 people on board.

The filing of U.S. charges against a Chicago woman convicted of killed her wealthy mother during an overseas vacation is raising questions.

An American woman convicted of helping to kill her mother on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali and stuff the body into a suitcase is being deported to the United States.

An American woman convicted of helping to kill her mother on Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali has walked free from prison.

Indonesians are looking ahead warily toward the holiday travel season, anxious for crucial tourist spending but worried an influx of visitors could spread the coronavirus just as its pandemic situation seems to be subsiding.

A moderately strong earthquake and aftershock has hit Indonesia’s resort island of Bali, killing at least three people and destroying dozens of homes.

The Indonesian resort island of Bali is welcoming international travelers to its shops and white-sand beaches for the first time in more than a year.

A Chicago woman convicted of assisting her boyfriend in her mother’s murder and stuffing the body in a suitcase on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali in 2014 is being released early from a 10-year prison sentence.

Three men held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center were formally charged Tuesday in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings and other plots in Southeast Asia 18 years after they were taken into U.S. custody.

An attorney and an Indonesian official say a Chicago woman will be released from prison six years into a 10-year prison sentence for her role in the slaying of her mother, whose body was found stuffed into a suitcase on the island of Bali.

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A U.S.-based YouTuber and a Russian influencer have been ordered off Indonesia’s resort island of Bali after recording themselves defying mandatory mask-wearing with some imaginative makeup.

The oxygen supply for the 53 crew members of an Indonesian submarine missing in waters off Bali is believed to have run out early Saturday with no sign of the vessel.

(AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)JAKARTA – Indonesia’s confirmed coronavirus infections since the pandemic began crossed 1 million on Tuesday and hospitals in some hard-hit areas were near capacity. Indonesia’s Health Ministry announced that new daily infections rose by 13,094 on Tuesday to bring the country’s total to 1,012,350, the most in Southeast Asia. The total number of deaths reached 28,468. Jakarta continues to be hardest hit city in Indonesia, confirming more than 254,000 cases as of Tuesday, including 4,077 deaths. Health Ministry data showed hospital capacity nationwide was at about 70%.

Indonesia's highest Islamic body has gave its religious approval to China's Sinovac vaccine, paving the way for its distribution in the world's most populous Muslim nation. The vaccine was cleared for emergency use after Indonesian authorities reviewed clinical trial data from Brazil, Turkey and Indonesia, which are all taking part in Phase III clinical trials of the vaccine. Indonesia conducted its own Phase III clinical trials of the vaccine with 1,620 volunteers. Griffith University epidemiologist Dr. Dicky Budiman said that many people have questioned and expressed doubt about the vaccine, as the data Indonesia used for emergency authorization is only preliminary. Authorities in China and Bolivia have both issued emergency authorization for the CoronaVac vaccine.

Chinese regulators on Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020 announced an anti-monopoly investigation of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, stepping up official efforts to tighten control over China's fast-growing tech industries. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)BEIJING – Chinese regulators on Thursday announced an anti-monopoly investigation of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, stepping up the ruling Communist Party’s efforts to control fast-growing tech industries. The ruling party says anti-monopoly enforcement, especially in tech industries, will be a priority next year. “Reports of platform monopoly problems are increasing by the day,” the ruling party newspaper People's Daily said in a commentary about the Alibaba probe. Alibaba said revenue rose 30% over a year earlier in the three months ending in September to 155.1 billion yuan ($23.4 billion).

Chinas market regulator will increase scrutiny and regulation around the community group buying industry in China, summoning some of its largest tech companies involved to discuss the matter as it looks to eradicate anti-monopoly practices in the industry. In a statement on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2020, Chinas State Administration for Market Regulation said it had held a meeting with six internet platform companies, including e-commerce firms Alibaba, JD.com and Pinduoduo, to discuss the regulation of community group buying. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati, File)HONG KONG – China is ramping up its scrutiny of the practice of community group buying, summoning some of the nation's largest tech companies for discussions as part of an anti-monopoly push. Community group buying allows groups of people living in the same town or region to buy groceries and other items in bulk at a discounted rate, a growing practice that is being facilitated by big tech companies. The Administration for Market Regulation also warned against illegally collecting and using customer data.

(AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)MELBOURNE – The COVID-19 figures in Australia’s Victoria state continued to show improvement on Saturday but officials are concerned about an outbreak at the country’s largest shopping center. The figures take the state toll to 805 and the national death count to 893. Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews said a recent outbreak linked to southeast Melbourne’s Chadstone Shopping Centre showed why it was unsafe to ease restrictions. Trump has blamed China, where the coronavirus outbreak began in December, of mishandling the outbreak and allowing it to spread. Nepal has so far 84,570 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 528 deaths.

(AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)HANOI – Vietnam will resume international commercial flights connecting the country to several Asian destinations starting Friday, after a monthslong shutdown to curb the coronavirus outbreak. Flights connecting the cities with Cambodia and Laos will resume next week. The flights, however, are reserved for Vietnamese nationals, diplomats, experts, managers, skilled workers, investors and their families. Vietnam shut down international flights on April 1. Vietnam has reported 1,059 cases of the coronavirus.

The Asian Development Bank has forecast Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020 that developing economies in the region will contract in 2020, the first such downturn in nearly 60 years. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati, File)Developing economies in Asia will contract in 2020, the first such downturn in nearly 60 years, the Asian Development Bank said Tuesday in an update to its forecasts. The update of the ADB’s outlook estimates the regional economy will contract 0.7% this year, recovering to 6.8% growth in 2021. Asia's status as a production base for many medical products, digital devices and optical equipment helped to cushion the blow to trade from the pandemic downturn, the report noted. “Physical and mental wellness has taken a battering during the crisis," said Donghyung Park, an ADB economist said.

The new cases rose after India reopened shops, shopping malls, manufacturing and religious places. Among the numerous rural areas across the U.S. that have recently experienced coronavirus outbreaks are migrant farmworker communities in Florida. Surgeons in Chicago have given a new set of lungs to a young woman with severe lung damage from the coronavirus. Earlier this week, the state health secretary called the track an imminent hazard, ordered it closed and told the operators to announce the closure publicly. ___SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico Puerto Ricos governor says she will lift nearly all restrictions aimed at curbing coronavirus cases, which means beaches, churches and businesses across the U.S. territory will reopen after a three-month shutdown.

In this photo released by Indonesian National Search And Rescue Agency (BASARNAS), rescuers carry Ukrainian man Roberts Jacob Matthews on stretcher in Pecatu, Bali, Indonesia, on June 6, 2020. Matthews, who fell into an abandoned well and broke his leg while being chased by a wild dog on Indonesias tourist island of Bali, was rescued after being trapped for nearly a week, police said Monday, June 8, 2020. (BASARNAS via AP)DENPASAR DENPASAR, IndonesiaA Ukrainian man who fell into an abandoned well and broke his leg while being chased by a wild dog on Indonesias tourist island of Bali was rescued after being trapped for nearly a week, police said Monday. He told authorities that he had been trying to evade a wild dog that chased him, Sooai said. He survived only by drinking water in the well.Matthews, who has been vacationing on Bali since March, holds a Ukraine passport and a driver's license issued by the United Kingdom, Sooai said.

Still, optimism over reopening economies from business shutdowns to fight the virus spurred a rally on Wall Street, even as the official U.S. death toll approached 100,000. New Zealand's Ministry of Health reported Wednesday that there were no COVID-19 patients under treatment in hospitals. Authorities were testing 3,600 employees of a local e-commerce giant, Coupang, after discovering dozens of coronavirus infections linked to workers at the companys warehouse near Seoul. Its daily death toll is approaching that of the U.S., at about 620. Brazil currently leads in daily deaths with more than 800.

POMPANO BEACH, Fla. – After a 22-hour flight, Michael Hughes made it back to South Florida on Thursday from Bali, where he fell about 30 feet while visiting an ancient temple. Hughes’ injuries included several broken ribs and five fractured vertebras in his back. His boss, Pompano Beach Fire Chief John Jurgle, said he was glad the firefighter made it back, and he was grateful for all of the support from the community. Hughes was hospitalized in Bali, but he really wanted to come home. Hughes will be recovering at Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood.

CNN image(CNN) - Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has launched a new mid-range restaurant chain just six months after his UK dining empire collapsed. Two of his restaurants in Southeast Asia -- one in Bali, the other in Bangkok -- will adopt a new all day dining format. They will be called Jamie Oliver Kitchen and will be partly inspired by local cuisine. The Jamie Oliver Group, which operates 70 restaurants in 27 markets, will launch Jamie Oliver Kitchen on November 21 in Bali and on November 28 in Bangkok. Prior to his UK restaurant chain going into administration, Oliver had pumped millions of pounds into the business in recent years.

Bali's Awarta Nusa Dua Luxury Villas & Spa was named the best boutique hotel in the world for the second year running(CNN) - Its name literally means treasure, so it seems fitting that Bali's Awarta Nusa Dua Luxury Villas & Spa has been recognized as a gem of a boutique hotel. Awarta was named the best boutique hotel in the world for the second year running at a ceremony in London earlier this week. Meanwhile Emaho Sekawa, based high up on a hill on Vanua Levu, Fiji's second largest island, was named the World's Best Beach or Coastal Hotel. New Zealand's Te Koi Lodge, which was taken over by Ian and Ali Metcalfe in 2017 and turned into a luxury retreat, was named the World's Best New Hotel of 2019. Costa Rican offerings Rancho Pacifico, situated on top of the rainforest of Uvita de Osa and Drake Bay Resort, an eco lodge on the Osa Peninsula, were named World's Most Romantic Retreat and World's Best Honeymoon Hideaway respectively.

Pexels photoA hotel in Bali just wants its guests to be happy. It offers puppy therapy every Tuesday and Thursday, which is just what it sounds like: A chance to unwind with some puppies. Puri Garden works with the Bali Dog Association, a group that wants to put an end to the suffering of street dogs in Bali. Also, just a thought: On the hotels website, it lists six reasons to stay with us, and puppy therapy isnt even on the list. You can book your own room for about $70 a night, which sounds like a steal to us.