Here are some global hotspots overwhelmed by visitors that authorities have moved to protect
Hundreds of bloodied and bandaged victims were treated outside damaged hospitals in the main city of Mataram
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The archipelago of more than 17 000 islands is the world’s second biggest contributor to marine debris after China
Massive columns of thick grey smoke have been pouring out of Mount Agung and have shot more than three kilometres into the sky
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Miss Philippines has been crowned Miss World 2013 in a glitsy finale in Bali amid hardline Muslim protests that labelled the event a "whore contest".
All passengers and crew have survived after a Lion Air Boeing 737 missed the runway on the Indonesian resort island of Bali.
Lawyers for the man who helped assemble bombs used in the 2002 nightclub blasts in Bali say the charges against him are obscure and should be dropped.
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/ 13 October 2011
A powerful earthquake has jolted Bali, injuring 17 people and causing panic as hundreds of tourists fled violently shaking buildings.
It’s a question you’ve probably often asked yourself, while idly travelling through foreign climes: should I get myself a nice swastika tattoo?
Another round of talks on the road towards a new global deal on climate change wrapped up on Friday, battered by criticism over progress.
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/ 10 December 2007
Rich and poor nations wrangled over the need for mandatory caps on greenhouse gases and ways to help the most vulnerable adapt to rising temperatures as a United Nations climate conference entered its crucial final week. Delegates and environmentalists said on Monday they were satisfied so far with the progress.
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/ 8 December 2007
Developing countries led by China squabbled with the West over mandatory emission cuts at the Bali climate-change conference, as activists accused Canada on Saturday of undermining the negotiations by insisting on targets for poor nations. Delegates from nearly 190 nations are attending the December 3 to 14 meeting.
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/ 3 December 2007
About 190 nations met in Bali on Monday seeking a breakthrough to a new global pact to fight climate change by 2009 to avert droughts, heatwaves and rising seas that will hit the poor hardest. A new treaty is meant to widen the Kyoto Protocol, which binds 36 industrial countries to cut greenhouse-gas emissions by 5% below 1990 levels by 2008 to 2012.
Two men have been detained for questioning over the suicide bombings at three crowded restaurants on Indonesia’s Bali island, police said on Tuesday. Indonesian officials earlier said the near-simultaneous bombings that killed 22 people and apparently were planned by two Malaysians — still at large.
Powerful bombs ripped through three crowded restaurants on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on Saturday, killing at least 25 people and wounding more than 100 — the second time terrorists have brought carnage to the tropical paradise in three years. Witnesses reported seeing dismembered bodies at the scene, many of them foreigners.
The monkey temples on the resort island of Bali are a perfect photo opportunity for tourists feeding bananas to man’s closest relative, but most visitors are likely unaware they’re at risk of contracting a little-known retrovirus recently found to jump from primates to people in Asia.
An Indonesian court on Friday convicted an Australian beauty school student of smuggling marijuana into the tourist island of Bali and sentenced her to 20 years in prison. Schapelle Corby (27) who insists she is innocent and that the drugs were planted in her luggage, fought back tears as the verdict was announced.
Prosecutors urged a court on Monday to sentence a suspect in last year’s Bali bombings to death — in the first trial over the October 12 attack that killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists.
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/ 18 October 2002
With a peppercorn goatee, oversized glasses and clad in white ankle-length robes and Islamic cap, Abu Bakar Ba’aysir looks decidedly unthreatening. But when he gets on to the subjects of Islam and the US, he becomes transformed into the fiery preacher he has been for more than 30 years.
Various NGO’s have warned United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan that the upcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg was in danger of collapse.