Local disaster management officials put the death toll from the quakes at 535. Earlier U.N. figures that put the death toll at 1,100 were just estimates, said El-Mostafa Benlamlih, a U.N. humanitarian coordinator.

He was killed during an 18-hour firefight with an Indonesian anti-terrorism unit, Detachment 88, in Indonesia’s Central Java town of Temanggung, a security forces source and a police source said. Top, a Malaysian-born explosives expert, is...

Retired Indonesian general Wiranto, a controversial figure over rights abuses in East Timor who looks set to run for president next year, said his country needs to spread its wealth among the poor.