Jakarta pulls budget for World Beach Games, set to include Israeli athletes; tournament to be cancelled; Olympic umbrella group notes 'great surprise and extreme disappointment'
FIFA announces soccer tournament will be held in South American nation after pulling it from Indonesia, which saw public and political opposition to Israel's participation
Muslim-majority state loses soccer tourney hosting rights after governors called to ban Israel; Indonesians inundate Instagram page of presidential candidate with negative comments
Organized by conservative Muslim alliance, demonstrators wave signs calling Israel the enemy of Islam, block Jakarta thoroughfare; some moderate groups also urge Israel's exclusion
Monsoon rains erode and finally collapse the lava dome atop 3,676-meter volcano, causing eruption on densely populated island; several villages blanketed as falling ash blocks sun
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