Indonesia

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said May 1 that Indonesia's sympathy for the families of two drug traffickers it executed was a good sign for resuming strong ties between the nations.

Indonesia faced a storm of international protest on April 29 for putting seven foreign drug convicts before a firing squad, but Filipinos rejoiced after a compatriot was spared at the last minute.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed ?deep remorse? on April 22 for Japan?s World War II aggression at a summit attended by Asian leaders, but stopped short of repeating previous apologies in a move that drew anger from South Korea.

A drone marked with a radioactive sign landed on the roof of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's office on April 22 and  tested positive for a "minuscule" amount of radiation, media reported. 

Police found the radiation to be low enough not to be harmful to humans, media said. 

KRALJEVO - Indonesian Ambassador to Serbia Harry Richard James Kandou visited on Monday Trstenik, where he talked with president of that municipality Miroslav Aleksic about the town's development, repair of the flood damage and possible investments in the company Prva Petoletka.

Indonesia banned on April 16 small retailers from selling beer, despite an outcry from the booze industry and in tourism hotspots over the Muslim-majority country's latest offensive against drinking.

Two Islamic parties have proposed legislation that would ban all consumption of alcoholic drinks and bring jail terms of up to two years for offenders in Indonesia, home to the world's largest Muslim population. 

About 150 nationals of Russia and other countries including Bulgaria have left war-torn Yemen on board a second Russian plane on Sunday, TASS reported.

The Il-62 passenger aircraft landed at Chkalovskiy Airport near Moscow early on Sunday. This was after the second evacuation flight of a Russian plane from Yemen over the past 24 hours and the seventh one over the past two weeks.

Öztürk Y?lmaz, the former Turkish consul general to Mosul, who was taken hostage last year along with 48 others by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants for 101 days, has been appointed as an ambassador to Tajikistan's capital of Dushanbe.

The Islamic world faces the risk of disintegration amid sectarian tensions, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has said.

?The main thing for us is Islam, not Sunni nor Shiite,? Erdo?an told a group of journalists returning to Ankara following a one-day visit to Tehran on April 7.