AP - Across the globe, at least 15 nations are considering sending troops to an eventual U.N.-mandated international force in southern Lebanon — including Malaysia, Indonesia and Norway.

AFP - Six suspected bird flu patients in Indonesia, one of the nations hardest hit by H5N1, have been cleared of carrying the deadly virus.

AP - A tsunami warning system is now in place for Indian Ocean countries, but experts said Wednesday there is still room for improvement in methods to convey the alerts to coastal communities.

AP - Daniel Lev, a leading Indonesia scholar and longtime University of Washington professor, died Saturday following a battle with lung cancer. He was 72.

AFP - Strong growth in India and Indonesia helped push Singapore Telecommunications' regional mobile phone user base above 92 million at the end of June.

AFP - Indonesia has strongly condemned Israel's deadly attack on the Lebanese village of Qana, branding it a criminal act that violated international and humanitarian laws.

Reuters - Two people in Indonesia's Aceh have been caned for adultery, the latest case of public punishments since courts in the province were allowed to implement Islamic sharia law. Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim nation but only Aceh has the right to adopt sharia law in the judicial system.

Reuters - A tsunami that killed more than 600 people on Java island less than two weeks ago will weigh on a group of global weather scientists when they meet in Indonesia this week to discuss a system aimed at reducing such deaths.

AP - An explosion at an oil refinery in Indonesia early Saturday injured nearly 150 people and caused about 7,000 residents to flee their homes, police said.

Mount Karangetang continues to rumble Friday, as vulcanologists warned Friday of an imminent eruption as red-hot lava is oozing from its crater. Saut Simatupant, a vulcanologist with the national volcanology monitoring office in West Java said they are on the highest alert, advising authorities...

AP - A bomb believed rigged to a motorcycle exploded outside a bank in southwestern Pakistan and wounded 21 people Friday, one critically, a medical official said. It was unclear who was behind the bombing outside a branch of the state-owned Allied Bank Ltd., which was open at the time, in Quetta, the capital of insurgency-wracked Baluchistan.

AP - Thousands of villagers were evacuated after a volcano on an island in eastern Indonesia started spewing lava and hot clouds, officials said Friday.

AP - An Indonesian court on Wednesday sentenced an alleged Islamic militant to 3 1/2 years in jail for harboring Southeast Asia's most wanted terror suspect.

Foreign ministers from Southeast Asian nations call the for the establishment of disaster alert systems in the region. This is made more urgent considering the catastrophe that befell Indonesia by failing to warn of the tsunami last week that claimed at least 600 people....

Indonesian authorities said Tuesday the three terrorist militants who were convicted in the bloody 2002 Bali bombings, will be executed in August. The three men identified as Iman Samudra, Amrozi and Ali Gufron, have been on a death row for two years after they were convicted in the 2002 bombings...

AP - Fishermen along Indonesia's tsunami-battered coast returned to sea Tuesday for the first time since the massive waves crashed to shore just over a week ago, killing 600 people and leaving 70 others missing.

Reuters - Indonesia may execute three militants sentenced to death for the 2002 Bali bombings in August, an official from the district attorney's office on the resort island said on Tuesday.

Reuters - The priority for East Timor's new prime minister, Jose Ramos-Horta, is reconciliation after months of political crisis, Indonesia's presidential spokesman said on Tuesday.

AP - Children and teachers cleaned up debris swept into classrooms by last week's tsunami as schools reopened Monday in the resort town hardest hit by the killer waves.

Reuters - Indonesian Christians in tsunami-hit areas prayed in church on Sunday as life slowly limped back to normal six days after the disaster that killed nearly 700 people.