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Fast Forward Clinic Where Joan Rivers Died During Minor Surgery Loses Federal Accreditation
The New York clinic where comedian Joan Rivers suffered cardiac arrest during an outpatient procedure last year will lose its federal accreditation and funding at the end of this month, a government health agency said on Monday. Rivers died on Sept. 4 at the age of 81 in a New York hospital a week after…
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Fast Forward White House Admits Blame for Paris No Show
The White House on Monday conceded that the United States should have sent a higher-level representative to a Paris unity march after deadly Islamic militant attacks there and said President Barack Obama would have liked to attend. Some Republican lawmakers and U.S. media outlets criticized Obama’s administration for not sending a top leader to the…
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Fast Forward John Kerry Plans Visit to Paris on Friday
Secretary of State John Kerry is to visit Paris on Friday in solidarity with victims of last week’s militant attacks and he dismissed criticism over the fact no senior U.S. official joined other world leaders in a mass remembrance march. He said he would travel on Thursday and be in Paris for part of the…
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Fast Forward Why Did Barack Obama Skip Paris March Against Terrorism?
The absence of President Barack Obama or any top members of his administration from a huge march in Paris on Sunday to honor victims of Islamist militant attacks raised eyebrows among some in the U.S. media. French President Francois Hollande and some 44 foreign dignitaries, including leaders from Germany, Italy, Britain, Turkey, Israel and the…
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Fast Forward Israel Expects 50% Surge in Immigration by French Jews
Israel expects the number of French Jews moving there this year, which was already predicted to rise sharply from 2014’s record level, to accelerate further after the killings at a Paris kosher grocery, a senior official said on Sunday. Natan Sharansky, head of the Jewish Agency promoting emigration to Israel, said his estimate for 2015…
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Fast Forward At Least 3.7 Million March in France To Honor Attack Victims
At least 3.7 million people demonstrated in France on Sunday to honor the victims of Islamist attacks last week, the Interior Ministry said. A ministry spokesman said that 1.2 million to 1.6 million people had marched in Paris and about 2.5 million people in other cities around the country. The ministry said it was the…
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Fast Forward French Jewish Sites Promised Extra Protection
Jewish schools and synagogues in France have been promised extra protection, by the army if necessary, after killings by Islamic militants in Paris, the head of the community’s umbrella group said on Sunday after a meeting with President Francois Hollande. The attacker who took hostages in a siege of a Paris kosher supermarket in which…
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Fast Forward Gun from Paris Supermarket Siege Linked With Jogger Shooting 2 Days Earlier
Bullet cases found at the site where a jogger was shot and wounded on Wednesday evening match the gun found at the scene of a fatal shooting in a supermarket east Paris two days later, the Paris prosecutor said citing ballistics tests. Four hostages died in Friday’s siege on a Jewish supermarket by an Islamic…
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