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Fast Forward Shia LaBeouf Hurt in Movie Stunt
Actor Shia LaBeouf was treated in a hospital after suffering a head injury when a stunt went wrong while he was filming in North Dakota, his publicist said on Wednesday. The 29-year-old actor, who starred in the “Transformers” films and with Brad Pitt in the World War Two drama “Fury,” is expected to resume filming…
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Fast Forward ‘Seinfeld’ Apartment Turns Into Shrine for Fans
Fans of the hit 1990s television show “Seinfeld” can lounge on comedian Jerry Seinfeld’s battered sofa and reminisce about their favorite episodes in a pop-up, real-life replica of his iconic apartment on New York’s Upper West Side. Online video streaming service Hulu on Wednesday unveiled the replica apartment, where Seinfeld hung out with his best…
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Fast Forward Dutch Far Right Winger Airs Pamela Geller Anti-Islam Cartoons
Anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders on Wednesday aired cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad on Dutch television that were drawn at a cartoon competition in Texas that was attacked by two gunmen in May. Aissa Zanzen, spokesman for the Council of Moroccan Mosques in the Netherlands, called Wilders’ action, using public broadcast time allocated to political parties,…
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Fast Forward French Lawmakers Pass Controversial Holocaust Compensation Bill
French lawmakers voted on Wednesday to create a $60-million fund to compensate Holocaust victims deported by French state rail firm SNCF to Nazi concentration camps in a move also intended to protect the company from future U.S. litigation. About 76,000 Jews were arrested in France during World War Two and transported in appalling conditions in…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Take First Steps in ICC Probe
The Palestinian Authority will hand over documentation to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the first time on Thursday outlining alleged Israeli crimes in the occupied West Bank and the 2014 Gaza war, its mission to the Netherlands said. Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki will give two files to the court’s prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, the…
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Fast Forward Gaza Rocket Narrowly Misses Kibbutz
Militants in the Gaza Strip launched a rocket at Israel on Tuesday which landed in open ground near a community close to the Palestinian enclave and Israel hit back at the launching site, the Israeli army said. There were no injuries or damage after the rocket fell near the community of Yad Mordechai, Israeli police…
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Fast Forward British Teens Freed After Swiping Auschwitz Mementoes
The two boys, both aged 17, spent Monday night in a police cell after being caught with items including a fragment of a razor, a piece of spoon, buttons and two pieces of glass, believed to have once belonged to inmates at the Nazi German camp. A police spokesman had said earlier on Tuesday that…
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Fast Forward Israel and Turkey Launch Secret Push To Mend Ties
Israel held unannounced diplomatic level talks with Turkey on Monday to explore prospects, after Turkish polls, of restoring an alliance that was once central to U.S. Middle East policy but has soured dramatically under Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan. The Islamist-rooted AK Party founded by Erdogan, who accused Israel last year of having “surpassed Hitler in…
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