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Fast Forward Prosecutors Group Demands Fresh Probe Into Alberto Nisman Death
The head of a global prosecutors group on Monday demanded an independent investigation into the death earlier this year of the Argentine prosecutor looking into the bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. Alberto Nisman was found dead under unexplained circumstances in January after accusing Argentina’s president, Cristina Fernandez, of trying to cover…
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Fast Forward U.S. Calls for Calm on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount
The U.S. State Department on Monday voiced concern about violence at the compound surrounding Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque, an area revered by Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and by Jews as the Temple Mount. “The United States is deeply concerned by the increase in violence and escalating tensions surrounding the (al-)Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount,” said State Department…
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Fast Forward Israeli Troops Raid Temple Mount Ahead of Rosh Hashanah
Israeli police raided the plaza outside Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque on Sunday in what they said was a bid to head off Palestinian attempts to disrupt visits by Jews and foreign tourists on the eve of the Jewish New Year. Police used tear gas and threw stun grenades towards Palestinian youths, who barricaded themselves inside the…
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Fast Forward White House Trumpets Support for Iran Deal — House Holds Symbolic No Vote
President Barack Obama said on Friday that the House of Representatives’ vote on the Iran nuclear deal is an indication of growing support for the deal. “Today’s vote in the House of Representatives is the latest indication that the more members have studied the historic deal that will prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon,…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama Seals Victory on Iran Deal — GOP Vows New Fight
President Barack Obama achieved perhaps the greatest foreign policy victory of his six years in office on Thursday, when a Republican-backed effort to kill the Iran nuclear agreement was narrowly blocked in the U.S. Senate, clearing the way for the deal’s implementation. Forty Democrats and two independents voted to block a resolution disapproving of the…
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Fast Forward Steny Hoyer, Top Democratic Lawmaker, Backs Iran Deal
Steny Hoyer, the second-ranking Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives, on Tuesday announced that he will support the Iran nuclear deal being considered by Congress this month. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, who supports President Barack Obama’s efforts to win congressional approval of the Iran deal, has predicted that Republican attempts to cripple the…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Groups Banned From Temple Mount
Israel outlawed two grassroots Palestinian Islamist groups involved in vocal protests at a flashpoint Jerusalem shrine against stepped-up visits by religious Jews, officials said on Wednesday. The ban on the “Mourabitoon” and “Mourabitaat” – Arabic for male and female “sentries” – marked Israel’s latest bid to assert its authority at al Aqsa mosque compound, Islam’s…
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Fast Forward Hillary Clinton To Vow Tough Enforcement of Iran Deal
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton will promise on Wednesday to strictly enforce the nuclear deal with Iran and curb the Islamic Republic’s regional ambitions if she wins the November 2016 election. In a speech to a Washington think tank, the former secretary of state will reiterate her support for the accord but caution that the…
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