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Fast Forward Britain Must Confront Appalling Rise in Anti-Semitism: Minister
Britain needs to address an “appalling” spike in anti-Semitism, interior minister Theresa May said on Sunday in a speech to the Jewish community designed to address their security fears after an Islamist gunman killed four French Jews in Paris. Police officials have been working closely with Jewish organizations to step up security arrangements after the…
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Fast Forward Israeli Sources Confirm Attack in Syria
An Israeli security source confirmed to Reuters on Sunday that the Israeli military had carried out the attack in Syria that killed five members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement. The Israeli military has declined official comment on the helicopter strike inside Syria which killed a commander of the Islamist guerrilla group and son of a late…
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Fast Forward Hezbollah Military Leader’s Son Killed in Israeli Strike, Lebanese Sources Say
The son of late Hezbollah military leader Imad Moughniyah was killed on Sunday when an Israeli helicopter fired missiles at his car in the Syrian province of Quneitra, near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, two sources close to Hezbollah said. Jihad Moughniyah was killed with four other members of Hezbollah when his convoy was hit, the…
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Fast Forward Israel Lobbies Foreign Powers To Cut ICC Funding
Israel is lobbying member-states of the International Criminal Court to cut funding for the tribunal in response to its launch of an inquiry into possible war crimes in the Palestinian territories, officials said on Sunday. ICC prosecutors said on Friday they would examine “in full independence and impartiality” crimes that may have occurred since June…
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Fast Forward Israeli Selfie From Miss Universe Contest Causes Stir in Lebanon
An Israeli beauty queen’s selfie has caused a stir in Lebanon, with some Lebanese saying their country’s contestant at the Miss Universe pageant should be stripped of her title for consorting with the enemy. Miss Israel Doron Matalon posted a photo of herself and Miss Lebanon Saly Greige smiling together at pageant preparations in Miami,…
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Fast Forward 7 Israeli Arabs Charged With Joining Islamic State
Israel said on Sunday it had cracked the first Islamic State cell on its soil, made up of seven Arab citizens who would be prosecuted on charges of planning attacks in the Jewish state and communicating with the insurgent group in Syria. The defendants, including a lawyer who was representing himself in court, denied the…
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Fast Forward Hamas Welcomes ICC Probe of Israel ‘War Crimes’
The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas said on Saturday it welcomed a decision by the International Criminal Court to launch an inquiry into possible war crimes in the Palestinian territories. ICC prosecutors said on Friday the preliminary examination would scrutinize “in full independence and impartiality” crimes that may have occurred since June 13 last year, opening…
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Fast Forward Plea Deal in Jeffrey Epstein Teen Sex Case May Be Made Public — Tie to Alan Dershowitz
A U.S. judge may allow sealed documents on financier Jeffrey Epstein’s 2008 plea deal in a sex crime case to be made public. “Public policy favors judicial records being open to the public,” Judge Kenneth Marra, of the Southern District of Florida, wrote on Thursday, ordering Epstein to explain why the plea negotiations should stay…
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