18 h. ago Bomb maker launches coffee brand and now insists he wants to 'brew peace'

Umar Patek was involved in the horror 2002 Bali bombings that killed hundreds of people including 23 Brits - but has changed his ways thanks to coffee

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47 h. ago Man jailed for Bali bombing that killed 202 people starts coffee business

Umar Patek said he understood that many people were still angry with him but said he would give a portion of earnings to survivors

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52 h. ago Bali bomb maker starts new chapter ‘brewing peace’ with coffee – but the trauma lingers for his victims

Convicted terrorist Umar Patek confronted by survivor as he launches his own coffee brand Ramu – an attempt, he says, at rebuilding his life post prisonUmar Patek, a convicted bomb maker involved in the deadly 2002 Bali bombings, says that he is now a changed man.Launching his own coffee business in the Indonesian city of Surabaya on Tuesday evening, the former member of the al-Qaida-linked terror group Jemaah Islamiyah, says these days he is more interested in “brewing peace” than mixing deadly explosives. Continue reading...

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66 h. ago Brit drug suspect facing Bali firing squad was previously jailed for armed robbery

Phineas Ambrose Float, 31, stands accused of helping to smuggle nearly a kilo of cocaine into Bali disguised in Angel Delight packets, along with two fellow Brits. The Mirror can reveal he previously served time in prison for armed robbery and drug-dealing

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7 d. ago Retired Russian commander behind strikes on Mariupol that claimed 8,000 Ukrainian lives killed by 'suicide bomber'

Zaur Gurtsiev, 34, who received several medals for participating in Russia’s attacks on Mariupol, was killed alongside another unnamed man in a blast

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8 d. ago Newlywed groom killed by parcel bomb disguised as wedding present

A groom was shockingly killed by a bomb that was disguised as a wedding gift, just 5 days after he was married, and a man has finally been found guilty 7 years after the crime that shocked India

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8 d. ago Dumped boyfriend accidentally kills himself throwing bomb at ex

Surapong Thongnak, 36, was furious when his former partner Kanonraphat Saowakhon, 28, refused to reconcile with him in Surat Thani, southern Thailand.

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9 d. ago Brit arrested in Bali on drug charges avoids death penalty and is sentenced to 10 months in jail after 'taking a package of MDMA from a taxi driver'

A British man arrested in Bali for allegedly taking a package containing just over a kilogram of MDMA from a taxi driver has avoided the death penalty.  

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1 week ago British man sentenced to 10 months in Bali for drug offenses after death penalty charge dropped

A court on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali has sentenced a British man to 10 months in jail for drug offenses after a charge that could carry the death penalty was dropped

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1 week ago Man accused of smuggling cocaine to Bali faces death by firing squad

About 530 people, including 96 foreigners, are currently on death row in Indonesia

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1 week ago Enjoy 'coffee shop quality' brews as Tassimo slashes price of popular pod machine

A good, strong coffee can help start the morning right, and now shoppers can enjoy a barista-style in their own kitchens

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1 week ago Children among 12 killed after Russia launches largest aerial bombardment of Ukraine war

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the ‘silence of America’ and called for tougher Russian sanctions following the strikes

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1 week ago Drugs mule Lindsay Sandiford shares 'cuddles and kisses' with grandkids in Bali jail

Sandiford has spent over a decade on death row and is awaiting execution for smuggling cocaine.

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1 week ago A biblical hatred is engulfing both sides in the Gaza conflict – and blinding them to reason | Jonathan Freedland

Israel starving Palestinians, two killings at a Jewish museum: both are atrocities. But vanishingly few can see itI sat this week with Hussein Agha, a man who has given his working life to seeking peace between Israelis and Palestinians, negotiating from the Palestinian side of the table. He was gloomier than I have ever seen him, adamant that peace between the two sides can never, ever come. Because, Agha explained, this conflict was not about mere lines on a map or forms of words, the goods in which diplomats trade. This was about emotions, and specifically hatreds. Hatreds that, he feared, are becoming too murderous to contain. “It’s biblical,” he said.What he had in mind was the fury that drove Hamas to slaughter around 1,200 Israelis on a sleepy Saturday morning nearly 20 months ago and the fury that has driven the government of Benjamin Netanyahu to bombard Gaza ever since, killing more than 50,000, according to the Hamas-controlled health ministry, and, over the last 80 days,...

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2 w. ago Ariana Grande posts tribute to Manchester on anniversary of Arena bombing

The singer posted a subtle tribute to the city, where a suicide bomber killed 22 people after her performance at the Manchester Arena

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2 w. ago 3 girls and 2 soldiers killed in Pakistan school bus bombing are buried

Hundreds of mourners in Pakistan have attended the funerals of three schoolgirls and two soldiers killed in a suicide bombing that targeted a school bus

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2 w. ago Andy Burnham issues tribute to Arena bombing victims eight years after tragedy

The Greater Manchester mayor posted a tribute eight years after the bombing in which 22 people were killed

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2 w. ago Eight years after Manchester arena tragedy, 'the pain is as present as it was on day one'

22 innocents were killed and hundreds were hurt when the bomb went off at 10.31pm on May 22, 2017

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2 w. ago A suicide car bomber strikes a school bus in southwestern Pakistan, killing 5 people

Officials say a suicide car bomber struck a school bus in southwestern Pakistan, killing five people, including at least three children and wounding 38 others

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2 w. ago Multiple kids killed and 38 injured after suicide car bomber strikes school bus

A suicide car bomber has struck a school bus in Pakistan, killing at least four children and wounding 38 others, with the attack taking place in the tense Balochistan province

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