By Al Pessin
Voice of America
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7, 2007 — A senior U.S. military officer says there has been no change in military planning in the wake of the U.S. intelligence report that Iran does not have an active nuclear weapons program.
In a rare news conference, the chief of strategic planning for the senior U.S. military [...]

By Brian Wagner
Voice of America
MIAMI, Dec. 6, 2007 — NASA has delayed until Friday the launch of space shuttle Atlantis after engineers discovered problems with the shuttle’s external tank.
NASA officials say they discovered the problem as they were filling the shuttle’s external tank with liquid hydrogen at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Engineers agreed [...]

By Jim Malone
Voice of America
WASHINGTON — Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney has tried to assure voters the Mormon Church would not influence his decisions should he win the White House next year. Romney spoke on faith and politics at the George H. W. Bush presidential library in Texas.
Romney spoke at a time when opinion [...]

By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
BAGHDAD, Dec. 6, 2007 – Violence in Iraq has dropped significantly in recent months, but it’s still too soon to declare the home stretch in U.S. operations here, the commander of Multinational Force Iraq said today.
Army Gen David H. Petraeus cited significant security progress during a roundtable with reporters at [...]

By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5, 2007 – The United States-Peoples’ Republic of China annual defense consultative talks ended yesterday with the two nations agreeing to increase military-to-military ties, Pentagon officials said today.
Defense spokesman Bryan Whitman said the delegations — led by Eric S. Edelman, undersecretary of defense for policy, and Lt. Gen. [...]

By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 4, 2007 – Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates today pointed to the new national intelligence estimate as evidence that non-military means are the best way for the United States to deal with Iran’s nuclear enrichment program.
Responding to a reporter’s query during a joint news conference with Afghan [...]

By Sara Moore
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4, 2007 – The national intelligence estimate released yesterday on Iran’s nuclear program proves that Iran is still a threat to world peace and provides an opportunity for the international community to work together to persuade the country’s current regime to stop its uranium enrichment program, President Bush [...]

By Tendai Maphosa
Voice of America
London — A British schoolteacher sentenced to 15 days in jail in Sudan for allowing her pupils to name a teddy bear Mohammed has been released hours after receiving a pardon from Sudan’s president. Gillian Gibbons is expected to fly out of Khartoum for home Monday.
Gibbons angered Sudan’s Muslim authorities when [...]

By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3, 2007 – A new intelligence estimate that says Iran stopped its covert nuclear weapons program in 2003 is good news, but also presents cause for concern, President Bush’s national security advisor said today.
Stephen Hadley briefed White House reporters today on the report, which was produced by the [...]