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Fast Forward Egypt Permanently Cancels Jewish Festival
An Egyptian court permanently banned a Jewish celebration that has taken place since the 1979 peace deal with Israel and asked the government to remove the tomb where it takes place from a list of official shrines, judicial sources said on Monday. The court said its decision was due to “moral offenses” committed in previous…
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Fast Forward Israel Troops Kill Palestinian Stone-Thrower
Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian who had been hurling rocks at cars on a highway in the occupied West Bank on Monday, a military spokeswoman said. She said troops shouted at a group of Palestinians throwing stones on a main road near Palestinian villages and Jewish settlements to halt and then fired warning…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama Says Iran Can Be Power If It ‘Gets Right’ With World
Iran could become a “very successful regional power” if Tehran agrees to a long-term deal to curb its nuclear program, President Barack Obama said in an interview with NPR News. “They’ve got a chance to get right with the world,” Obama said in the interview, which was taped at the White House on Dec. 18…
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Fast Forward Palestinians To Submit U.N. Statehood Resolution Today
Palestinians plan to submit a final draft of a statehood resolution to the United Nations on Monday calling for a peace deal with Israel within a year and an end to occupation of Palestinian territories by the end of 2017, officials said. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas informed U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry by phone…
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Fast Forward 11-Year-Old Israeli Girl Hurt in West Bank Firebomb
A firebomb attack on a car in the occupied West Bank left an an 11-year-old Israeli girl severely burned and her father injured on Thursday, the Israeli military said. The Israeli military said the suspected Palestinian attack was near the Ma’ale Shomron Jewish settlement, north of the West Bank city of Nablus. Video footage of…
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Fast Forward Roman Polanski Loses Bid To Quash 1977 Sex Case
A Los Angeles judge has declined a bid from attorneys for Roman Polanski to close the 1977 child sex case against the Oscar-winning director, a court spokeswoman said on Wednesday. The decision by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James Brandlin on Tuesday is the latest defeat for the filmmaker in having the case dismissed without…
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Fast Forward Alan Gross Gets 3.2M Settlement From Feds Over Cuba Imprisonment
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced it has settled claims with a company that employed Alan Gross, the contractor freed last week after five years in a Cuban jail as part of a major shift in U.S.-Cuba relations. USAID finalized the settlement with Development Alternatives, Inc (DAI) on Monday night for $3.2 million,…
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Fast Forward Israeli Soldier Wounded in Gaza Border Firefight
Israeli forces shot dead a member of Hamas’s armed wing after a firefight erupted along the border with the Gaza Strip on Wednesday and an Israeli soldier was wounded, Gaza hospital officials and the Israeli army said. The military said in a statement that a routine patrol on the Israeli side of the border came…
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