"From what we understand, the shop would have poured the gin out of the original bottle and then replaced it with methanol," Emmons' older brother Michael said.
Radicals in Jakarta rallied Friday to call for a "Myanmar jihad" to avenge Muslim deaths after two Indonesians were detained over a plot to bomb the Myanmar embassy.
People around the world took to the streets on May Day, also known as International Workers' Day, an international pro-labor holiday used to demand workers' rights.
Gaffe-prone State Enterprises Minister Dahlan Iskan has backed the idea of state-run cannabis farms in a country where trafficking pot gets the death penalty.
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