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Tsunami linked to volcano kills over 200 in Indonesia – Los Angeles Times/RTÉ/France 24

23 December 2018

JAKARTA -- The sea rose without warning on Saturday night, crashing into coastal villages on Indonesia’s two most populous islands. It killed at least 220 people, washing away buildings, roads…

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Disappearance of Saudi Arabian journalist overshadows global financial meeting – Los Angeles Times

13 October 2018

NUSA DUA -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin said Saturday that he was sticking with plans to attend a government-sponsored investment conference in Saudi Arabia this month despite the…

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Indonesian search for earthquake and tsunami victims to end Friday; death toll at 2,073 – Los Angeles Times

11 October 2018

NUSA DUA -- Hundreds of mostly Indonesian aid workers continued to distribute relief items to the nearly 88,000 people left homeless by the disaster, after days of slow access to…

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A week on from Indonesian disaster, mass prayers for the dead – Los Angeles Times

5 October 2018

JAKARTA -- Dini Widiastuti, Executive Director of Yayasan Plan International Indonesia, a local NGO affiliated with Plan International, described a challenging conditions for getting relief items such as tents to…

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Survivors leaving quake-stricken town in Indonesia as frustration grows over relief effort – Los Angeles Times/RTÉ

4 October 2018

JAKARTA -- Survivors were leaving the disaster-hit region of Central Sulawesi on Thursday out of frustration with what they said was the slow provision of assistance from the Indonesian government…

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Dozens of bodies pulled from mud as relief effort in Indonesia slowly expands – Los Angeles Times/Sydney Morning HeraldRTÉ

2 October 2018

JAKARTA -- Aid workers described scenes of destruction and desperation Monday in areas of central Sulawesi they reached for the first time since a magnitude 7.5 earthquake and tsunami leveled…

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Indonesia’s quake-tsunami death toll tops 800, with several coastal towns still to be heard from – Los Angeles Times/RTÉ

30 September 2018

JAKARTA -- Anisah Firdaus Bandu’s mother called her in tears from her hometown of Palu on Friday evening when a magnitude 7.5 earthquake jolted the island of Sulawesi in eastern…

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Earthquake and tsunami kill hundreds in Sulawesi, Indonesia – Los Angeles Times/CBC

29 September 2018

JAKARTA — Indonesian officials said 384 people were killed and many more remained unaccounted for after an earthquake of magnitude 7.5 on Friday evening triggered a sundown tsunami measuring between…

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Pope Francis wraps up Ireland visit as archbishop calls on him to resign – Los Angeles Times

26 August 2018

KNOCK — Hundreds of thousands of Catholics gathered under dark rain clouds as Pope Francis said Mass in a Dublin park and stopped briefly to pray at Knock Shrine, a…

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Pope Francis tells Ireland sex abuse scandals brought ‘pain and shame’ to Catholics – Los Angeles Times

25 August 2018

DUBLIN -- Pope Francis on Saturday vowed to adopt “stringent” measures to rid a crisis-convulsed Catholic Church of the “pain and shame” caused by decades of sexual abuse and its…