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A search for survivors was continuing off the Indonesian island of Bali on Thursday after a passenger ferry sank overnight in ...

The Sunda Shelf is home to a rich Pleistocene hominin fossil record, including specimens of Homo floresiensis, Homo ...

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American strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites overnight were a "spectacular military success," President Donald Trump has ...

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And the First Fleet, if reconstituted, will cover the crossroad between the south lane to South Asia and Australia through the South China Sea, the Makassar Strait and the Sunda Strait, and the west ...

The Strait of Hormuz is considered the world's most important gateway for oil transport. With Iran now threatening to close the waterway, industrialized nations are on edge.

Strait of Hormuz is a significant and strategic route for shipping in the region as around a fifth of the global oil shipments pass via the route each year. | World News ...