An hour’s drive south-west of Paris in the Chevreuse Valley lies the Abbaye des Vaux-de-Cernay, a 12th-century Cistercian ...

One of Mira's films, Atambua 39 Celcius (2012) explores the culture of West Timor in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT ... but I have yet to visit the smaller islands, like Sabu and Rote," said 50-year-old Mira ...

Timor-Leste, previously known as East Timor, is an island country in the eastern Lesser Sunda Islands, and part of the Malay ...

West Philippine Sea is the name given by an administrative order (AO) of then President Benigno Aquino III to Philippine territorial waters west of the country. Aquino’s AO said West Philippine Sea ...

In 2015, the Australian Government commissioned the Australian War Memorial (AWM) to produce the official history of Australian operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and Australian Peacekeeping ...

There are many irregularities in relation to the detention of Tom Lembong. Without sufficient evidence of corruption, this case can be considered as politicization, and not enforcement, of the law.

It is not possible to receive an entry permit when you arrive at the land border with West Timor so if you want to enter Timor Leste via the border with Indonesia, you need to get an entry permit in ...

Andrew McQualter will have little time to settle in at West Coast with the Eagles facing a daunting first month as we look at the good, the bad and the ugly from their 2025 fixture. Fremantle will ...

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The name alone is problematic, at least in German: officially, it was known as Berlin (West); the East Germans, if they referred to it at all, wrote it as Westberlin; whilst in West Germany, they ...