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Fast Forward U.S. Warns of ‘Implications’ as Palestinians Deliver International Court Documents
In a move that heightened tensions with Israel and could lead to cuts in U.S. aid, the Palestinians on Friday delivered to U.N. headquarters documents on joining the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and other international treaties. The chief Palestinian observer at the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, and U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq confirmed…
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Fast Forward Ex-Revlon Science Chief Sues Over ‘Jews Stick Together’ Slur
A former Revlon Inc chief scientific officer has sued the cosmetics company, claiming he was fired after raising safety concerns that its chief executive did not want to hear and was discriminated against for being Jewish. In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday in Manhattan federal court, Alan Meyers claimed that CEO Lorenzo Delpani accused him…
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Fast Forward Morton Salt Wall Collapse Sends White Stuff Spewing
A wall of the Morton Salt building on Chicago’s North Side collapsed on Tuesday afternoon, spilling hundreds of pounds of salt onto cars of an adjacent Acura dealership. The Chicago Fire Department said no injuries were reported. Images on Twitter showed a mountain of salt submerging about eight vehicles that had been awaiting servicing by…
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Fast Forward ‘Palestine’ Deadline Resolution Fails in U.N. by 8-2 Vote
The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday rejected a Palestinian resolution calling for Israel to withdraw from Palestinian territories by late 2017. Even if the draft had received the minimum nine votes in favor, it would have been defeated by Washington’s vote against it. The United States is one of the five veto-wielding permanent members. There…
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Fast Forward Britain Won’t Back U.N. ‘Palestine’ Resolution
Britain joined the United States on Tuesday, declaring that it cannot support a new Palestinian draft proposal calling for peace with Israel within a year and an end of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories by late 2017. Jordan on Tuesday circulated to the U.N. Security Council a draft resolution prepared by the Palestinians, who…
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Fast Forward U.S. Blasts ‘Palestine’ U.N. Resolution as Not ‘Constructive’
The United States said on Monday it did not support a draft statehood resolution that the Palestinians plan to introduce at the United Nations, saying it would not advance the goal of peace or address Israel’s security needs. “We don’t think this resolution is constructive,” State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke told a regular news briefing….
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Mom Dies in Fall From Hunter Mountain Ski Lift
A 44-year-old Brooklyn woman died of injuries suffered when she fell 25 feet from a chairlift at Hunter Mountain ski area in New York’s Catskill Mountains, the Greene County coroner said on Monday. The woman, who was killed after she slipped from the lift on Sunday afternoon, was identified as Olga Filkin, said coroner Hassan…
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Fast Forward Arabs Meet on Palestinian Push for U.N. ‘Deadline’ Resolution
Arab U.N. delegations on Monday discussed a Palestinian plan to make peace with Israel within a year and end Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories by late 2017, despite Israeli and U.S. opposition. Several Western council diplomats told Reuters they had been surprised by the Palestinians’ sudden push to submit over the next few days a…
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