By Todd DeFeo
HarpBlaster.com News Wire
ROME, Italy – You don’t have to be a history major to understand the impact Rome has had on the world. From aqueducts to roads, the Romans were ahead of their time and their [...]

Voice of America
TEHRAN, July 26, 2008 — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says his nation is now operating  as many as 6,000 uranium enriching centrifuges.
Iranian media report Saturday the president made the comments in a speech to professors in the northeastern city of Mashhad.
Iran had been known to be operating 3500 uranium-enriching centrifuges at its main [...]

By Sonja Pace
Voice of America
LONDON, July 26, 2008 — Barack Obama, the presumed Democratic presidential candidate, held talks with British leaders in London on Saturday as he wound up a foreign tour that took him to Afghanistan, Iraq, other parts of the the Middle East and Europe.
Barak Obama met with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown [...]

By William Selby
Special to American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, July 25, 2008 – An Iraqi organization tasked with consolidating and coordinating that country’s counterterrorism effort is now capable of conducting unilateral missions, a U.S. military official said yesterday.
“[The Iraqi National Counterterrorism Force’s] primary mission is to synchronize and focus all elements of Iraqi national power to [...]

By Jim Malone
Voice of America
WASHINGTON, July 25, 2008 — Republican presidential contender John McCain questioned Democratic candidate Barack Obama’s fitness to be commander in chief Friday.  McCain made the remarks to a veteran’s group in Colorado not long after Obama met with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris as part of his trip to Europe [...]

By Jim Malone
Voice of America
WASHINGTON, July 25, 2008 — Republican presidential contender John McCain questioned Democratic candidate Barack Obama’s fitness to be commander in chief Friday. McCain made the remarks to a veteran’s group in Colorado not long after Obama met with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris as part of his trip to [...]

American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, July 25, 2008 – U.S. soldiers in Baghdad today detained a suspect linked to roadside-bomb attacks against coalition forces during an operation in the city’s Risalah sector, military officials said.
The detainee was taken to a coalition base for questioning.
In yesterday’s operations:
– U.S. soldiers in Baghdad found an explosive device on the [...]

By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, July 23, 2008 – President Bush met with Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and the members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff today at the Pentagon.
Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley and Josh Bolton, White House chief of staff, met with defense leaders in “the [...]

HarpBlaster.com News Wire
NEW YORK — New York topped Travel + Leisure’s list of Top Ten Cities in the Continental U.S. and Canada, according to the magazine’s 2008 World’s Best Awards readers’ survey.
This marks the eighth year in a row that New York ranked No. 1. Savannah, Ga., made the list for its first time in [...]

PRNewswire-USNewswire
SAVANNAH, Ga., July 25, 2008 — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) today issued citations proposing penalties totaling $8,777,500 against the Imperial Sugar Co. and its two affiliates alleging violations at their plants in Port Wentworth, Ga., and Gramercy, La.
OSHA initiated the inspections following an explosion and fire on Feb. 7, 2008, at the [...]