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Baghdad, NU Online Iran’s top national security official Ali Larijani arrived in Baghdad on Sunday on a previously unannounced three-day visit for talks with Iraqi leaders, officials said. The visit came as the two neighbours announced that Iran would send its foreign minister to a conference of world and regional powers later this week to find ways to help Iraq build peace and overcome its current security crisis.
Jakarta, NU Online Indonesia won the silver medal for the first time at the 14 Interternational Conference of Young Scientists (ICYS) held in St. Petersburg from April 21 to 27, 2007, spokesperson for the Indonesian Physics Olympiad Team Foundation (TOFI) said. "After two consecutive years the Indonesian team won the bronze medal in the ICYS, it now managed to secure silver in the ecology field at the ICYS competition," the foundation’s public relation official, Srisetiowati, said here Sunday.
Denpasar, NU Online President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has expressed hope the National Dharma Santy celebration could strengthen brotherhood among Indonesian people. The head of state made the statement when attending the Hindu Dharma Santy celebration at the open stage of Arda Chandra cultural park here on Saturday night.
Jakarta, NU Online The participation of an Israeli parliamentary delegation in the 116th conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) scheduled on April 29-May 4 in the resort island of Bali had sparked mass protests in many parts of the country on Friday. In Bandung, some 1,000 people grouped in the Alliance of Anti-Israeli Mass Islamic Organizations staged a rally outside the "Gedung Sate", one of the city’s most popular icons, which houses the provincial administration.
Jakarta, NU Online The biography of KH Tolhah Hasan entitled Multitalent Cleric was launched here on Friday. This special day also marked his 70th anniversary. Writing team chief of the biography Prof Dr Nazaruddin Umar admitted the title of the book was based primarily on his multicapability that could be able to color his all institutions.
Jakarta, NU Online Some 200 residents of Porong district, East Java would return home Thursday evening after 12-day protest in the capital to demand 100 percent payments for their assets inundated by mud flowing from PT Lapindo Brantas' gas field. MetroTV television reported that 10 negotiators of the mudflow victims would remain in Jakarta to follow up the agreement that Lapindo had to pay 20 percent of the value of their total asset and would pay another 80 percent the year after.
Tehran, NU Online IRI Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said here Wednesday Iran's stand on attending Iraq's neighbors conference in Sharm al-Sheikh would soon be announced. According to IRNA Political Desk reporter, Mottaki made the comment during a joint press conference with his visiting Iraqi counterpart Hoshyar Zebari after holding a round of talks with him at ministry of Foreign Affairs on issues of mutual interest for Tehran and Baghdad.
Jakarta, NU Online The Indonesian Council of Ulema (MUI) rejects the possible presence of an Israeli delegation at an Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) conference to take place in Bali late this month and asks the government not to issue any visa to the Israeli representatives, the council’s chief said. "Our rejection is based on our view that Israel is a colonial power to Palestina and South Lebanon. And we know colonialism is against the preamble of Indonesia’s 1945 Constitution," KH Cholil Ridwan, chairman of the MUI’s executive board, said here on Wednesday.
New York, NU Online The overwhelming majority of peoples in four leading Muslim countries believe that the US is taking its global war on terror as a guise to undermine Islam and divide the Muslim world, a poll by the Washington-based WorldPublicOpinion.org showed on Tuesday, April 24. "While US leaders may frame the conflict as a war on terrorism, people in the Islamic world clearly perceive the US as being at war with Islam," Steven Kull, WPO editor, said in a statement carried by Reuters.
New York, NU Online The management of the Indonesian Al Hikmah Mosque organized a dialogue among representatives of the Moslem, Jewish and Christian faiths here on Sunday afternoon. As reported by Antara news agency, the dialogue was led by Syamsi Ali, head of the mosque; Rabbi Jeffrey Saxe of New York’s Central Synagogue and Father Arthur Caliandro of New York’s Marble Church.
Jakarta, NU Online The leader of the country’s largest Muslim organization Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) KH Hasyim Muzadi said here on Monday that each of us should keep on guard against any transnational ideologies. According to the leader of the Al Hikam Islamic boarding “Pesantren” school, the ideologies being able to threaten the integrity of the nation were not from the root of the culture of ours.
Jakarta, NU Online Hot mudflow victims are planning to stage another rally on Monday, but this time with the support of university students and members of youth organizations. They were scheduled to march from the Monument of Proclamation in Central Jakarta to the residences of Coordinating Minister for People’s Welfare Aburizal Bakrie and Vice President Jusuf Kalla. Later they would proceed to the Hotel Indonesia roundabout, and finally to the State Palace, said Sumitro, a spokesman of the hot mudflow victims, mostly residents of Tanggulangin Anggun Sejahtera housing complex, here on Monday.
