BANDA ACEH, Indonesia—Vice President Jusuf Kalla and dozens of foreign dignitaries joined survivors commemorating the Indian Ocean tsunami that struck 10 years ago Friday, destroying this ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters Life!) - Banda Aceh, the northwestern tip of Sumatra island ravaged by the Indian Ocean Tsunami five years ago, has bounced back, and is increasingly becoming a ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia – When a powerful tsunami smashed into this Indonesian city ten years ago, the only structures left standing in many neighborhoods were mosques. For the hundreds who found ...

Rohingya Muslim refugees are transported as they are relocated from their temporary shelter at Balai Meuseuraya Aceh, following the protest in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, December 27, 2023.

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — An Islamic Shariah court in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province on Monday sentenced two men to public caning for having gay sex. The couple, aged 24 and 18, were ...

Violent acts by foreigners are very rare in Aceh, the only province in Muslim-majority Indonesia that practices Shariah, a concession made by the central government in 2001 as part of efforts to ...

Banda Aceh: One Year Later. December 20, 2005 / 11:38 PM EST / CBS I'm Barry Petersen and this Letter from Asia comes from Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Of ...

Police in Banda Aceh on Wednesday named two more suspected human smugglers from Bangladesh and Myanmar following the arrival of one boat of refugees on Dec. 10. One of them, the captain, himself a ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Traumatised by the Indian Ocean tsunami that hit Indonesia 20 years ago, Teuku Hafid Hududillah has spent his adult life making sure that if disaster ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia – Ten years after a tsunami hit this city on Dec. 26, 2004, killing 167,000 people, roads and bridges have been rebuilt, there are houses on the beach, trees have grown ...

Alastair Jamieson and Ian Johnston report — A tsunami alert was issued for the entire Indian Ocean Wednesday after a powerful 8.6-magnitude earthquake was recorded off Indonesia's coast. The U.S ...