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Fast Forward Jewish-Founded American Apparel Files for Bankruptcy
American Apparel Inc, known as much for its sexually charged advertising and controversial founder as for its fashion offerings, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday. The Los Angeles-based company, which has not made a profit since 2009, joins a growing number of U.S. retailers selling to teens and young adults that have been…
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Fast Forward Russian Military Delegation to Visit Israel to Discuss Syria Operations
A senior Russian military delegation will visit Israel on Tuesday for two days of talks on how the countries can avoid accidentally clashing while operating in Syria, an Israeli military officer said. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed on Sept. 21 to set up teams as Moscow steps up military…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Teenager Killed in Clash With IDF in West Bank
A Palestinian teenager was killed on Monday in a clash with Israeli soldiers near the West Bank town of Bethlehem, a Palestinian hospital source said. Violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Jerusalem has intensified in the past few weeks and the teenager’s reported death was the latest in a series of incidents that has…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Stab Israelis in 2 Attacks, Netanyahu Calls in Security Chiefs
A Palestinian man stabbed and wounded an Israeli teenager in Jerusalem on Sunday, just hours after another knife-wielding attacker killed an off-duty Israeli soldier and a rabbi nearby in the walled Old City, police said. Officers shot dead both attackers, a police spokesman said, and Israel’s government announced it was barring Palestinians from entering the…
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Fast Forward Israeli Couple Shot Dead While Driving Through West Bank
An Israeli couple was shot dead while driving through the occupied West Bank late on Thursday and Israeli forces were searching the area for the suspected Palestinian attackers, authorities said. The couple’s four children, aged between four-months and nine-years old, were also in the car but were unharmed when the gunman opened fire near the…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Tells U.N. Israel Won’t Allow Iran to Join ‘Nuclear Weapons Club’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used his annual United Nations address on Thursday to launch an all-out assault on the historic nuclear deal with Iran, warning that his country would never let the Islamic Republic join the nuclear weapons club. Speaking at the yearly gathering of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly, Netanyahu reiterated…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Raises $26M as Insurgent Campaign Picks Up Steam
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont raised $26 million over the last three months as he wages a populist challenge to become the Democratic presidential nominee, MSNBC television reported on Thursday, citing a spokesperson with his campaign. That is up from $24 million estimate cited by the New York Times on Wednesday, putting Sanders closer to…
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Fast Forward Mahmoud Abbas Says Palestinians No Longer Bound by Israel Peace Pact
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday accused Israel of sabotaging U.S. efforts to broker peace and said that Israeli security operations at the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem could lead to a religious war. In an address to the United Nations General Assembly ahead of a ceremony for the raising of the Palestinian flag at U.N….
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