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Ministry's mediation in Ahok-DPRD conflict fails

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Efforts to intervene to settle the conflict between the governor of Jakarta and the Regional Legislative Assembly (DPRD) on Thursday failed.This clash between Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, also known as Ahok, and the DPRD arose over the 2015 draft budget, which was sponsored by the Home Affairs Ministry."I led the meeting and later ended it because...

A man carrying bread walks past covered dead bodies lying on the ground after what activists said was an air raid by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, at Masaken Hanano in Aleppo, December 22, 2013.

Monitors: Syrian helicopter bomb raids kill 42 in Aleppo

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BEIRUT - At least 42 people, including children, were killed on Sunday when Syrian army helicopters dropped improvised "barrel bombs" in the northern province of Aleppo, a monitoring group said. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said separate air raids hit several districts in Aleppo, but the biggest toll was in Hanano, east of the city. At...