More than 300 people have been killed since Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano began erupting late last month, an official said on Sunday, with more than 200,000 people still living in makeshift camps.

A moderate 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Saturday, the US geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of damage.

Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano has killed 283 people since it began erupting late last month, with more than 270,000 people still living in makeshift camps, an official said on Saturday.

Nov 17 (DPA) An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale stuck early Wednesday off Indonesia's Maluku islands, but there were no reports of damage, the geophysics agency said.

The quake occurred

Mount Merapi: Indonesia's most volatile volcano unleashed another cloud of searing gas as rescuers pulled more bodies from a village smothered a week ago by eruptions.

The death toll from a series o

New York: You’d think that food, water and shelter were some of the important requests of evacuees who had to flee as the Indonesian volcano Merapi erupted recently, but that’s not the case.

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Nov 10: US President Barack Obama today celebrated Indonesia's evolution from the rule of the "iron fist" to democracy and lauded his boyhood home's spirit of tolerance as a model for Islam and the We

Jakarta: US President Barack Obama today celebrated Indonesia's evolution from the rule of the 'iron fist' to democracy and lauded his boyhood home's spirit of tolerance as a model for Islam and the

A conservative Muslim minister admits he shook hands with first lady Michelle Obama in welcoming her to Indonesia but says it wasn’t by choice.

London: An Indonesian politician, who is a staunch Muslim, has taken to Twitter to claim that he was “forced” to shake hands with US First Lady Michelle Obama.

Tifatul Sembiring, 49, who is the coun