New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens has been released by separatist rebels in Indonesia's restive Papua region, 19 months after his kidnapping. Mehrtens was held captive since February 2023.
Brigadier General Faizal Ramadhani, a National Police member who heads the joint security peace force, Cartenz Peace Operation Task Force 2024, in a statement said that the separatist armed group also burned the helicopter which landed in Alama, a remote village in Mimika district of Central
The West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) according to CNN said its soldiers attacked two Indonesian military posts in the Yal and Mugi districts in Nduga Regency over the weekend.
Wellington [New Zealand], February 22 (ANI/Sputnik): Forty-nine pilot whales have got stranded in shallow waters in New Zealand's Golden Bay and nine of them died, the country's Conservation Department said on Monday.