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China Daily | Updated: 2019-04-30 07:03

Indonesia

President plans to move capital city

Indonesian President Joko Widodo has decided to move the capital of Southeast Asia's largest economy away from the crowded main island of Java, the planning minister said on Monday. "The president chose to relocate the capital city to outside of Java, an important decision," Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro told a news conference after a cabinet meeting, adding that the government had yet to pick a new location. He said moving the capital from the coastal city of Jakarta, on the north coast of Java, could take up to 10 years.

Iran

Ending sanctions waiver will anger US allies

The US decision to end sanctions waivers for purchases of Iranian oil later this week will backfire by angering Washington's allies, Teheran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Sunday. Zarif said US policy is designed to make life hard for the Iranian people so they will "take action" against the Iranian government. In May last year, US President Donald Trump withdrew Washington from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal which had given the Islamic republic sanctions relief in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program. Washington reimposed oil sanctions on Iran in November, but initially gave eight countries, including several US allies, six-month reprieves.

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