There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties and authorities said they were making checks, especially in Garut, the town closest to the epicentre.
Former national security chief Suh Hoon was arrested over his suspected manipulation of a 2020 case where a fisheries official was killed at sea by North Korean troops.
Several more people have been sentenced to death "in secretive courts in violation of basic principles of fair trial", the UN human rights chief said.
China's biggest cities have begun easing coronavirus restrictions as Beijing looks to make its zero-Covid policy more targeted amid an economic slowdown and public frustration that has boiled over into unrest.
Afghan foreign ministry spokesman, Abdul Qahar Balkhi, condemned the attack, saying that the Taliban will not allow any "malicious actors to pose a threat to the security of diplomatic missions in Kabul".
Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the US will continue to “use all relevant tools to uphold our commitment to see to it that international terrorists are not able to operate with impunity in Afghanistan”.
Western leaders want to bleed Moscow financially but China and India haven't indicated if they plan to abandon the purchase of Russian oil.
Federal Court rejects an appeal by Santos gas company to resume drilling on its $3.6 billion gas drilling project in the Timor Sea off the country's northern coast.
The punitive measures targeting North Korean officials and companies follow Pyongyang's latest missile launches, including the test of long-range ICBMs.
Sergey Lavrov slams the West for expecting the entire world to live by the "rules of liberal democracy" and for its "reckless enlargement of NATO".
Five years ago the Hindu nationalist party BJP, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, won 99 seats in the 182-member Gujarat assembly and current opinion polls suggest the party might increase their number to more than 130 seats.
Hackers appear to end their extortion bid as they dump more customer data from insurer Medibank, which had refused to pay $9.7 million in exchange for hackers keeping the stolen records off the internet.
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