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Fast Forward Israel Will Observe Nuclear Pact Meeting, Hopes to Foster Dialog With Arab States
Israel will take part as an observer in a major nuclear non-proliferation conference that opens at the United Nations on Monday, ending a 20-year absence in hope of fostering dialog with Arab states, a senior Israeli official said. Assumed to have the Middle East’s sole nuclear arsenal, and having never joined the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty,…
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Israel News President Obama Pokes Fun at Benjamin Netanyahu at White House Correspondents’ Dinner
At the gathering he jokingly called “a night when Washington celebrates itself,” President Barack Obama took light-hearted aim on Saturday at a range of political friends and foes, including the people running to succeed him. Obama’s comedy routine at the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner included a zinger that combined a self-deprecating dig at his…
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Fast Forward 2 Knife-Wielding Palestinians Killed by Israeli Troops
Israeli security forces killed a Palestinian youth on Saturday as he tried to attack them with a knife at a checkpoint in the Jerusalem area, police said. The incident occurred at around midnight near the A-Zayyim checkpoint on the outskirts of East Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank, land Israel captured in a 1967 war…
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Fast Forward New York Transit May Ban All Political Ads To Allow It To Reject Anti-Islam Posters
Stung by a court ruling ordering it to display a controversial ad from an anti-Muslim group on its buses, New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority may adopt a new policy that it said would let it ban the ad after all. According to a letter submitted on Friday to U.S. District Judge John Koeltl in Manhattan,…
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Fast Forward FBI Chief Apologizes for Suggesting Poland To Blame for Holocaust
Comey’s apology, which came on Monday at the urging of the Polish foreign ministry, follows his op-ed about the Holocaust, which was published last week by the Washington Post._ “I regret linking Germany and Poland … because Poland was invaded and occupied by Germany,” Comey said in a letter to the Polish ambassador released by…
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Fast Forward Columbia Sued by Student Accused of Rape by Jewish Classmate
A Columbia University student who officials cleared of rape allegations has filed a lawsuit claiming the school allowed his accuser to harass and defame him by permitting her to carry a mattress on her back on its New York campus as a protest. Paul Nungesser, a graduating senior at the prestigious Ivy League school, was…
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Fast Forward Sheldon Silver Faces New Influence-Peddling Charges
A revised indictment issued by a Manhattan federal grand jury added four new counts to three earlier ones facing the Democratic politician, who was first hit with public corruption charges in January. Beyond charges of honest services mail and wire fraud and extortion, the indictment says Silver engaged in monetary transactions involving crime proceeds by…
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Fast Forward Rocket From Gaza Fired at Israel on Independence Day
Militants in the Gaza Strip fired a rocket at Israel as it celebrated its independence day on Thursday, the first such attack in months, causing no injuries or damage, Israeli authorities said. Air raid sirens sounded in the late evening in the southern border town of Sderot and surrounding communities after at least one rocket…
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