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RI evacuates citizens as US weighs limited action in Syria

Indonesia is evacuating its citizens from Syria as a United Nations expert team left Syria on Saturday, heightening ...

US sends fifth destroyer to eastern Med: Official

The US Navy has deployed a fifth destroyer to the eastern Mediterranean, a defense official told AFP on Thursday, as ...

Syria will defend itself against any aggression: Assad

President Bashar al-Assad said Thursday that Syria will defend itself against any attacks, as Washington and its ...

Obama says more work needed to achieve ideals from King`s `Dream` speech

The United States is struggling to realize the vision that civil rights leader Martin Luther King described in his ...

Obama says no decision made on Syria

U.S. President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that he has not made a decision about how to respond to the use of ...

Hagel concludes Indonesian visit

US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has concluded his Indonesian visit on August 26-27 after having meetings with ...

Obama doesn`t need Congress to intervene in Syria

US President Barack Obama has the authority to launch air strikes against Syria. But he has to notify lawmakers in ...

Putin, Cameron discuss Syria by phone: Russian media

Russian President Vladimir Putin and British Prime Minister David Cameron discussed reports of chemical weapons use in ...

US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to visit Jakarta

US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is expected to visit Jakarta next Monday on the second lag of his tour of four Asian ...

KPK summons convict as witness in Bank Century case

The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on Wednesday summoned former chief commissioner of scandal hit Bank ...

Indonesian, US marine corps hold joint exercise in East Java

The Indonesian Marine Corps and the United States Marine Corps (USMC) have carried out a joint exercise at the Baluran ...

Snowden`s father secures visa to visit son in Russia

Former U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) leaker Edward Snowden`s father Lon Snowden has secured documents to visit ...

US to reopen 18 of 19 embassies closed amid security concerns

Eighteen of the 19 US embassies closed this month due to worries about potential terrorist attacks will ...

US to reopen mideast embassies except yemen on Sunday

The United States said Friday it would reopen all of the embassies it shut this week except the one in Yemen, after ...

Marilyn Monroe hoped to marry JFK

Marilyn Monroe, who notoriously had an affair with John F. Kennedy, apparently believed she was going to marry the ...