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Fast Forward Va. Republican Candidate E.W. Jackson Blasts Non-Christians for ‘False’ Faith
Jewish groups called on the Republican candidate for Virginia’s lieutenant governor to explain a sermon in which he said non-Christians are engaged in a “false religion.” E.W. Jackson, a pastor, on Sunday preached at the Restoration Fellowship Church in Strasburg, Va. “Any time you say, ‘There is no other means of salvation but through Jesus…
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Fast Forward Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Insists on Right to Enrich Uranium
WASHINGTON — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani pledged to prove that his country’s nuclear program is peaceful but insisted on Iran’s right to enrich uranium. Rouhani, elected this summer and speaking Tuesday for the first time as president to the U.N. General Assembly, said the Iranian ethos and Muslim precepts demanded that “we remove all concerns…
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Fast Forward Apple’s New iOS 7 System Leaves Jerusalem Without A Country — Again
JERUSALEM — Apple’s new iOS 7 operating system, like its predecessor, lists Jerusalem without a country. Jerusalem is one of only three cities to be listed in the World Clock without a country, The Blaze reported this week. The others are Vatican City and Taipei. The Blaze showed a screenshot of the World Clock in…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama Pushes Mideast Peace and Bid To Block Nuclear Iran at U.N. Speech
President Obama in an address to the United Nations said the U.S. focus in the Middle East will be keeping Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and advancing Israeli-Palestinian peace. The two issues “have been a major source of instability for far too long,” Obama said Monday at the world body’s General Assembly in New…
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Fast Forward Sweden Party Moves To Ban Circumcision
A bill introduced in the Swedish parliament would ban the non-medical circumcision of underage boys. Two lawmakers from the rightist Sweden Democrats party, noting that female genital mutilation is illegal in Sweden, submitted the bill to the Riksdag on Tuesday. Bjorn Soder and Per Ramhorn wrote in the measure that “boys should have the same…
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Fast Forward British Board Backs Prof in Spat With ‘Zionist’ Student Over 62 Grade
An English review board has rejected bias complaints by an Israeli student against the University of Warwick but recommended the university apologize for being “insufficiently flexible.” “The complaint is partly justified,” the Office of the Independent Adjudicator, England’s body for reviewing student complaints, wrote in its recommendation last month on how to handle the 2012…
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Fast Forward Mahmoud Abbas Pleads for Jewish Support in Talks
In a meeting with Jewish leaders, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said he was more hopeful now for peace than he was in the mid-2000s. “If you ask me this question during the intifada, I didn’t have an answer,” Abbas said Monday, referring to the 2000-05 second intifada and having posed a rhetorical question about…
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Fast Forward Israel Backs Kenya as Deadly Westgate Mall Standoff Nears End
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered his condolences to Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta over the al-Qaida-linked terror attack on a mall in Nairobi. “Israel empathizes with the Kenyan people’s pain and with your own personal loss due to the terror attack. We value your nation’s determined struggle against terrorism,” Netanyahu said in a phone conversation…
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