November 17, 2015 edition
It was a Friday night and the Bataclan concert hall was crowded with more than 1,000 fans gathered to watch the Californian band Eagles of Death Metal last weekend. Loud rock music reverberated in the popular venue. Julien Pearce, a journalist from Europe 1 Radio, was inside the concert hall when the shooting began an hour after the band started playing.
Pearce said that a group of men, armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles, entered the hall and started shooting indiscriminately at the crowd. "There were bodies everywhere," said Pearce, describing the shooting, as reported by Reuters.
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October 27, 2015 edition
The visit last week of Denmark's Queen Margarethe II and her husband Prince Henrik to Indonesia is one indication of improving relations between the two countries. Beyond the usual protocols were serious meetings and discussions between Indonesian government and private sector representatives with a Danish delegation 62 business people, the first of such in the 65 years of relations between the two countries.
"Relations between Indonesia and Denmark will change from a cooperation based on development assistance to a commercial or business-based cooperation," said Danish Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen, who was part of the delegation.
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October 20, 2015 edition
SINCE proclaimed Queen of Denmark in 1972, Margrethe II has never been to Indonesia. Her first inkling of Indonesia came after her mother, Queen Ingrid, had visited Bali. "My mother came home with a selection of batik," said Queen Margrethe at Fredensborg Palace, north of Copenhagen, Denmark, on Tuesday. This was why Queen Margrethe II was eager to visit Indonesia. The state visit will be her first in the 65 years of the two countries' bilateral relationship.
In Jakarta, she will visit a number of places. Including a batik handicraft center in Yogyakarta. This 75-year-old royalty loves artwork. She held painting exhibitions a number of times. Her illustration works were printed in Danish editions of The Lord of the Rings. To Yandhrie Arvian from Tempo and three journalists from other media, Queen Margrethe spoke about her planned visit to Jakarta next week. The Prince Consort, Queen Margrethe's husband, accompanied her in the interview.
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September 29, 2015 edition
For the seventh time in the last 25 years, a holy site in Mina, Saudi Arabia, is the site of heartbreaking tragedy.
On Thursday last week, a human stampede broke out during a religious procession, resulting in 769 deaths and more than 934 casualties. Fourteen Indonesians were among the dead, while 112 are still missing.
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September 15, 2015 edition