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Fast Forward Barack Obama Meets With Steven Sotloff’s Family
President Barack Obama met on Thursday with the family of American journalist Steven Sotloff, who was beheaded last year by Islamic State militants. The White House said Obama met with Sotloff’s parents Art and Shirley and his sister, Lauren, while he was in Florida for fundraising and a briefing on the upcoming hurricane season. “The…
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Fast Forward Israel Fears FIFA Soccer Scandal Could Help Palestinian Push
Rotem Kamer, chief executive of the Israel Football Association, told Israel’s Walla news website on Thursday that Israeli representatives were lobbying several soccer confederations, including UEFA, in Zurich hotels before an expected ballot on the issue at FIFA Congress on Friday. “Undoubtedly there is a lot of politics going on here, and unfortunately Israel’s position…
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Fast Forward Military Aid to Israel Set To Jump 20% — at Least
U.S. defense aid to Israel is likely to increase after 2017, sources on both sides said on Thursday, seeing a possible link to Washington’s efforts to assuage its ally’s fears over nuclear diplomacy with Iran. A current package worth $3 billion a year expires in 2017. A U.S. official, speaking to Reuters on condition of…
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Fast Forward 93-Year-Old Nazi Won’t Face Trial in Massacre of 342 Italians
Germany will not prosecute a former Nazi SS soldier who allegedly helped kill more than 300 people in Italy during World War Two because he has dementia and is unfit to stand trial, prosecutors said on Thursday. Hamburg state prosecutors have ended their investigation into the unnamed 93-year-old former company commander in the 16th SS…
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Fast Forward Tony Blair Steps Down as Mideast Mediator
Former British prime minister Tony Blair will step down as representative of the Quartet of Middle East powerbrokers at the end of June, diplomatic sources said on Wednesday. Blair wrote to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday that he would step down from the role he has held since 2007. “(His) decision …will come…
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Fast Forward Amnesty Accuses Hamas of Gaza War Crimes
Amnesty International said in a report on Wednesday that Islamist Hamas committed war crimes against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip during last year’s war with Israel. A ceasefire last August ended 50 days of fighting between Gaza militants and Israel in which health officials said more than 2,100 Palestinians, mostly civilians, were killed. Israel…
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Fast Forward Amnesty Accuses Hamas of Gaza War Crimes
Amnesty International said in a report on Wednesday that Islamist Hamas committed war crimes against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip during last year’s war with Israel. A ceasefire last August ended 50 days of fighting between Gaza militants and Israel in which health officials said more than 2,100 Palestinians, mostly civilians, were killed. Israel…
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Fast Forward John Nash, ‘A Beautiful Mind’ Mathematician, Dies in Car Crash
Mathematician John Nash, a Nobel Prize winner whose longtime struggle with mental illness inspired the movie “A Beautiful Mind,” was killed in a car crash along with his wife in New Jersey, state police said on Sunday. Nash was accused of anti-Semitism for paranoid claims that Jews and Israel were out to get him. But…
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