US and Cuba are to start talks
Sumber gambar, Reuters
Belajar Bahasa Inggris antara lain dengan berita tentang Amerika Serikat dan Kuba yang akan memulai pembicaraan untuk memulihan hubungan diplomatik.
US and Cuba are to start talks
The United States and Cuba are to start talks on restoring diplomatic relations, which have been severed for more than half a century.
US officials revealed the news shortly after the release of an American government contractor, Alan Gross, who'd been detained by the Cuban authorities for five years.
President Obama and the Cuban leader, Raul Castro, are expected to make formal announcements.
The imprisonment of Mr Gross had been an obstacle to efforts to repair US-Cuban ties. Reports say the US will release three jailed Cubans in return.
Mr Gross is returning to the United States. He was convicted by the Cuban authorities of taking banned satellite technology into the country.
AS dan Kuba akan mulai pembicaraan
Amerika Serikat dan Kuba akan memulai pembicaraan untuk memulihkan hubungan diplomatik, yang terputus sejak lebih dari setengan abad.
Para pejabat AS mengungkapkan berita itu tak lama setelah pembebasan kontraktor pemerintah Amerika, Alan Gross, yang ditahan pihak berwenang Kuba selama lima tahun.
Presiden Obama dan pemimpin Kuba, Raul Castro, diperkirakan akan membuat pengumuman resmi.
Penahanan Gross menjadi rintangan dalam upaya-upaya untuk memperbaiki hubungan AS-Kuba. Laporan-laporan mengatakan AS akan membebaskan tiga tahanan Kuba sebagai imbalan.
Sumber gambar, AP
Gross sedang dalam perjalanan kembali ke Amerika Serikat. Dia dinyatakan bersalah oleh pihak berwenang Kuba karena membawa teknologi satelit yang dilarang ke negara itu.
Boxing ban
The International Boxing Association has imposed a one-year ban on the Indian fighter, Sarita Devi, for refusing to accept her bronze medal at the Asian Games in October.
Ms Devi was angered by her defeat to a South Korean boxer.
Later she apologised for her behaviour.
Indian officials say they're relieved that she only got a one-year ban which would enable her to take part in 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Larangan tinju
Asosiasi Tinju Internasional menerapkan larangan satu tahun atas petinju India, Sarita Devi, karena menolak menerima medali perunggu di Asian Games bulan Oktober.
Devi marah karena kalah dari petinju Korea Selatan.
Belakangan dia meminta maaf atas perilakunya.
Pihak berwenang India mengatakan mereka lega karena dia hanya mendapat larangan tanding satu tahun yang memungkinkan dia untuk ikut serta dalam Olimpiade 2016 di Rio de Janeiro.
