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Rescuers battled high waves Sunday as they searched for 200 asylum seekers missing and feared dead after their overcrowded ship sank off Indonesia’s main island of Java. So far only 33 people have been plucked alive from the choppy waters.

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AP – Rescuers searched for survivors Sunday after a wooden ship carrying about 250 asylum seekers, many of them from the Middle East, sank off Indonesia’s main island of Java. Only 33 people have been rescued so far, an official said.

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AP – Declaring that “Indonesia is part of me,” President Barack Obama issued a strikingly personal appeal to the Muslim world to join the West in an unrelenting battle to defeat al-Qaida and violent extremism.

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AP – From the most Muslim nation on earth, President Barack Obama is reaching out to the Islamic world, declaring that efforts to build trust and peace are showing promise but are still clearly “incomplete.”

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A conservative Muslim minister in Indonesia who is being criticized for shaking hands with Michelle Obama ? and thus violating his pious claim that he avoids contact with women not related to him ? blamed the exchange on the First Lady and said the touching was not his fault. 

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AP – President Barack Obama is heralding a “comprehensive partnership” between the United States and Indonesia, a fast-growing country with the world’s largest Muslim population.

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AP – President Barack Obama finally made it to Indonesia Tuesday, his home for four years of his youth. But no sooner had he arrived than word came that a volcanic ash cloud would likely cut short his already quick trip.

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