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Fast Forward Hezbollah Vows to Avenge Death of Militant Killed In Israeli Air Strike
BEIRUT – Lebanon’s Hezbollah group said on Monday that Israel would be held accountable for killing prominent militant Samir Kuntar in an air strike in Syria, and accorded him an elaborate funeral of the kind reserved for its top commanders. Thousands of people chanted “death to Israel” as Hezbollah fighters in military uniforms carried Kuntar’s…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Vice Premier Silvan Shalom Resigns Amid Sex Harass Scandal
Israeli Vice Premier Silvan Shalom, a veteran politician in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party, resigned on Sunday following allegations that he had sexually harassed several women during his career. The decision to step down by Shalom, who also served as the country’s interior minister and once held the post of foreign minister, was…
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The Schmooze J.J. Abrams’ ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Destroys Box Office Records
LOS ANGELES — “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” shattered box office records with an estimated $529 million in worldwide ticket sales through Sunday, a staggering debut that re-established the celebrated space saga as a global phenomenon under Walt Disney Co. The first “Star Wars” film in a decade, directed by J.J. Abrams, recorded the biggest…
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Fast Forward IDF Fires Into Lebanon After Rockets Hit Northern Israel
Israel’s military said it fired artillery rounds into southern Lebanon on Sunday in response to rockets fired earlier across the border that struck inside Israel. It said in a statement it holds the Lebanese government responsible for attacks emanating from its territory and that it will “continue to act against any attempt to harm Israel’s…
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Fast Forward Hitler Had Just One Testicle, Medical Records Show
BERLIN – A medical document shows that Adolf Hitler only had one testicle, German media said on Saturday, suggesting there is some truth after all to a popular British song that says the dictator had “only got one ball.” There has long been speculation that Hitler was missing one testicle, with rumors circulating that he…
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Fast Forward Greville Janner, British Leader Accused of Child Abuse, Dies at 87
LONDON – British peer Greville Janner, a prominent campaigner for Holocaust victims who was later accused of child sex abuse, has died aged 87, British media reported on Saturday. Janner, a former member of parliament for the Labour Party for almost 30 years and ex-president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, was best-known…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Campaign Downloaded Hillary Clinton Data
The head of the Democratic National Committee said on Friday that the campaign of presidential candidate Bernie Sanders not only was able to view data from Hillary Clinton’s rival campaign, but apparently had downloaded it. “Our reports that we have from our vendor … is that they not only viewed it, but they exported it…
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Fast Forward 3 Palestinians Killed in Clashes With Israel
Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian who tried to ram them with a car and another who took part in a violent demonstration in the occupied West Bank on Friday, the military and medical officials said. In the Gaza Strip, Israeli army fire killed another Palestinian during a border protest, medics said. A campaign of…
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