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Members of the 374th Airlift Wing of US Air Force work on a C-130 aircraft during the Cope North military exercises at Andersen US Air Force Base in Guam Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013.

Kamis , 07 Feb 2013, 23:33 WIB

Jets roar as US, Japan, Australia drill in Pacific

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam - Fighter jets from the US and two key allies roared into western Pacific skies Thursday in the combat phase of annual exercises...

A United States Postal Service mailbox is seen in Manhasset, New York, last year (file photo)

Rabu , 06 Feb 2013, 21:30 WIB

Postal Service to end Saturday mail delivery

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, WASHINGTON - The Postal Service is planning to drop Saturday delivery of first-class mail by August, a congressional source said on Wednesday. The cash-strapped mail agency will still deliver packages, said the source, who is familiar with the matter but not authorized to speak on the record. USPS spokesman Mark Saunders could not confirm the change, but said the...

Ahad , 03 Feb 2013, 23:54 WIB

Factbox: Obama's second-term cabinet takes shape

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has begun to...

Selasa , 22 Jan 2013, 00:46 WIB

Obama urges end to reject political 'absolutism'

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama urged Americans on...

Senin , 21 Jan 2013, 00:37 WIB

Obama sworn in for second term in White House ceremony

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama was sworn...

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (left) after taking the oath of office from Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor (right) at the US Naval Observatory in Washington January 20, 2013.

Ahad , 20 Jan 2013, 22:29 WIB

Obama and Biden sworn in for second term

Malik Obama, half-brother of US President Barack Obama, speaks during an interview with Reuters on Obama's re-election as US President in his ancestral home village of Nyangoma Kogelo, 430 km west of Kenya's capital Nairobi, November 7, 2012.

Ahad , 20 Jan 2013, 00:40 WIB

Obama inspires brother to run for office in Kenya elections

In this 20 January 2009 file photo, Barack Obama, left, takes the oath of office from Chief Justice John Roberts, not seen, as his wife Michelle, holds the Lincoln Bible and daughters Sasha, right and Malia, watch at the US Capitol in Washington.

Ahad , 20 Jan 2013, 00:15 WIB

Inauguration weekend kicks off with day of service

Kamis , 17 Jan 2013, 10:12 WIB

Theft of 400,000 USD in diamonds reported in Florida

President Obama plays with the son of a staffer in the Outer Oval Office on Oct. 26.

Senin , 14 Jan 2013, 20:40 WIB

In Picture: Obama's funny moments

Robert F Kennedy Jr makes comments during the opening minutes of a interview with journalist Charlie Rose in front of a full audience at the AT&T Performing Arts Center Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, in Dallas, Texas. The Kennedys are in Dallas as a year of observ

Sabtu , 12 Jan 2013, 21:28 WIB

RFK children speak about JFK assassination in Dallas

US President Barack Obama smiles at his nominee for Secretary of Defense, former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel (right), at the White House in Washington January 7, 2013. Obama announced the nominations of Hagel for defense secretary, and John Brennan as the next CIA director.

Rabu , 09 Jan 2013, 21:10 WIB

US Senator: Israel should not worry about Hagel

?A student from Sandy Hook Elementary School stares out of the window of a bus that is making its way to their new school in Monroe, as they leave Newtown, Connecticut, January 3, 2013.

Kamis , 03 Jan 2013, 23:35 WIB

Sandy Hook students resume classes for first time since school shooting

US Secreatry of State Hillary Clinton (file photo)

Selasa , 01 Jan 2013, 21:46 WIB

Clinton receiving blood thinners to dissolve clot

A taxi stops outside the Milstein Hospital Building at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital where US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was hospitalized in New York, December 31, 2012.

Senin , 31 Dec 2012, 23:00 WIB

Clinton breaks travel record in US secretary of state's history

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers a speech at Dublin City University in Ireland in this file photo from December 6, 2012.

Senin , 31 Dec 2012, 22:55 WIB

US Secretary of State Clinton hospitalized with blood clot

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, right, whispers with the US Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass, left, in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009. (file photo)

Ahad , 23 Dec 2012, 01:30 WIB

Kerry, the US' new secretary of state

A local resident clears snow from his driveway after an overnight snowfall left many schools and businesses closed for the day, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012, in Urbandale, Iowa.

Big Midwestern snowstorm leads to 25-vehicle crash

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, DES MOINES - The first widespread snowstorm of the season began a slow crawl across the Midwest on Thursday, creating treacherous driving conditions that, in Iowa, led to a 25-vehicle pileup that killed one person. Drivers were blinded by blowing snow and didn't see vehicles that had slowed or stopped on Interstate 80 about 60 miles north of Des Moines,...

Gene Rosen becomes emotional as he describes, in an interview with the Associated Press, Monday, Dec. 17, 2012.

Selasa , 18 Dec 2012, 19:00 WIB

After shooting, neighbor took in 6 young survivors

Mourners listen to a memorial service over a loudspeaker outside Newtown High School for the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012, in Newtown, Conn.

Senin , 17 Dec 2012, 21:04 WIB

Gun control debate begins to simmer after massacre

Stuffed bears are seen at a memorial near Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut December 16, 2012. Twelve girls, eight boys and six adult women were killed in a shooting on Friday at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown.

Senin , 17 Dec 2012, 01:06 WIB

Connecticut survivors to attend school in neighboring town

New Jersey resident Steve Wruble, who was moved to drive out to Connecticut to support local residents, grieves for victims of an elementary school mass shooting at the entrance to Sandy Hook village in Newtown, Connecticut December 15.

Ahad , 16 Dec 2012, 01:09 WIB

Obama urges solidarity as America mourns shooting victims

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice (file photo)

Jumat , 14 Dec 2012, 22:38 WIB

Susan Rice withdraws as US Secretary of State candidate

Multicolored cinder cones in Haleakala (House of the Sun) Crater on the island of Maui. (illustration)

Rabu , 12 Dec 2012, 19:53 WIB

US expects to draw more Indonesian tourists

This Jan. 31, 1973 black-and-white file photo shows U.S. District Court Judge John Sirica in his office in Washington. (file photo)

Sabtu , 01 Dec 2012, 23:15 WIB

For the first time, US government releases once-secret Watergate files

Al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. Internal emails among senior U.S. military officials reveal that no sailors watched Osama bin Laden's burial at sea from the USS Carl Vinson and traditional Islamic procedures were followed during the ceremony. The emails, obtained by The Associated Press through the Freedom of Information Act, are heavily blacked out, but are the first public disclosure of information about the al-Qaida's leader's death.

Kamis , 22 Nov 2012, 12:32 WIB

Internal emails offer details on bin Laden burial

Kamis , 22 Nov 2012, 07:07 WIB

Myanmar says it's ready to sign nuclear agreement

Dr Stuart Kohlhagen (center), General Manager of Science and Technology at Australia’s science and technology centre, Questacon, helps press conduction plates to mark the opening of a two week science capacity building workshop at PP-IPTEK Jakarta on Monda

Senin , 19 Nov 2012, 23:05 WIB

Australia, US, and Indonesia open a workshop on science

Senin , 19 Nov 2012, 22:07 WIB

Forward Obama! Forward Indonesia!

U.S. President Barack Obama and Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung Sann Suu Kyi meet in Suu Kyi's home in Yangon November 19, 2012.

Senin , 19 Nov 2012, 18:00 WIB

Obama offers praise and pressure on historic Myanmar trip

Senin , 19 Nov 2012, 17:45 WIB

Obama speaks about Rohingya

US ambassador for Indonesia, Scot Marciel (file photo)

Selasa , 13 Nov 2012, 20:00 WIB

US ambassador invites Indonesians to study in the US

Paula Broadwell, author of the David Petraeus biography

Ahad , 11 Nov 2012, 21:39 WIB

Petraeus' biographer a military reservist and scholar

Ahad , 11 Nov 2012, 21:27 WIB

FBI, CIA face questions about Petraeus affair

Volunteers at Hoboken High School sort through clothing donations intended for distribution to the public, in Hoboken, N.J. Donations are rolling into New York and New Jersey after Superstorm Sandy, but some relief experts say the things being given are no

Unwanted donation, the 'disaster after the disaster'

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, MOUNT LAUREL - Superstorm Sandy has brought out generosity far and wide in the biggest U.S. relief effort for the American Red Cross and other groups since Hurricane Katrina swamped the Gulf Coast in 2005. And while the response is heartwarming, some of that is also helping create a "second disaster after the disaster," in the words of one...

Voters wait in line to file absentee ballots outside the Orange County Supervisor of Elections office in Orlando, Florida November 5, 2012.

Jumat , 09 Nov 2012, 21:05 WIB