A package bomb has exploded at the Indonesian Embassy in Paris, causing minor damage but no injuries, a police official said.

An Australian coroner called today for a war crimes probe into what she said was the murder of two British journalists and their three colleagues 32 years ago by Indonesian forces invading East Timor.

Bacterial powder that sparked a terror alert when it was sent to the Indonesian Embassy in Canberra, Australia, was probably harmless, an initial police report said today, though tests were continuing.

A video delivered to an international news organisation has apparently shown the release of two Indonesian journalists who were kidnapped in the volatile Iraqi city of Ramadi last week.