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Yearender 2021: Jokowi consolidates power amid health crisis

For President Joko Widodo, 2021 marks the year he seized the opportunity to tighten his grip on national politics.

China regularly describes the island as the most sensitive issue in its ties with the United States.

The first catch of the fishing season, a 19-kilogram fish, set an auction record of 2.99 million yuan at the opening ceremony of the festival.

The political trust between the two parties and countries continued to be enhanced with many delegation exchanges and high-level contacts.

The policy of “ambiguity” and “equidistance” between the US and China risks losing credibility on both sides, said Professor Kim Sung-han.

The wooden boat was first sighted two days ago, stranded about 70 nautical miles off the Indonesian coast.

TC Candler, a film critic website, has organised the annual list to rate the world's top lookers since 1990.

Leaders from several far-right groups had issued calls for the ethnic cleansing of minorities at a recent gathering in the city of Haridwar.

President Daniel Ortega’s government broke off relations with Taiwan this month, saying it would recognize only the mainland government.

Selangor was one of the worst-hit areas in the country's heaviest rainfall in the past 100 years.