
Six people died in civil unrest that gripped parts of Jakarta on Tuesday, May 21st, the night after the election commission confirmed that President Joko Widodo won last month’s election, the governor of the Indonesian capital said. Protests on Tuesday by supporters of Widodo’s challenger for the presidency, former general ...

A car bomb exploded near a checkpoint in Somalia capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, killing at least two people and wounding 12 others, officials said. The bombing was claimed by extremist militant group Al-Shabaab, which said in a statement it had targeted a convoy escorting officials and lawmakers heading to the ...