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Homo erectus is associated with a number of firsts in its 2 million years of existence, including being the first hominin to travel out of Africa.

During Indonesia’s recent mass protests, the looted homes of politicians in Jakarta revealed unexpected victims: cats reportedly left behind or stolen as their owners fled for safety.

Large demonstrations hit Jakarta over the past week as angry protesters demanded the dissolution of Indonesia’s Parliament.

Indonesians have taken to the streets over the past week to protest against elite corruption. The demonstrations began peacefully on August 25 with protests outside parliament in the capital, Jakarta. They soon spread across the country.

Protests, which began in Jakarta last week, have rocked the world's third-largest democracy

Amnesty International has said the increasing number of deaths from the government crackdown is ‘alarming’.

For many Indonesians, the violent riots currently wracking Jakarta and other cities across the archipelago are eerily reminiscent of the riots of 1998 that accompanied the fall of former dictator Soeharto and his New Order regime after three decades in power.

Indonesia President Prabowo’s free meals programme hit by more mass illness as protests against government rock country.

Interior minister says ‘they were waiting for’ official who was shot at point-blank range outside his home in killing that has shocked Peru