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Fast Forward Israel To Boycott U.N. Gaza ‘Kangaroo Court’ Probe
Israel said on Wednesday it would not cooperate with a United Nations Human Rights Council investigation into this year’s Gaza war because its findings were “pre-determined.” The U.N. panel, due to make its first report by March, is meant to look into the conduct of both Israel and Hamas, the Islamist movement that controls Gaza,…
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Fast Forward Israel Police Officer Arrested in Videotaped Killing of Palestinian Teen
Israeli police have arrested a paramilitary border policeman over the fatal shooting of a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank in May, a spokesman said on Wednesday. Nadim Nuwara, 17, and Muhammad Abu Thahr, 16, were killed during a May 15 demonstration in which Palestinians hurled stones at Israeli forces. Video from security cameras…
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Fast Forward Mosque and Synagogue Firebombed as Tensions Rise
A Palestinian mosque and an Israeli synagogue were damaged in separate arson attacks, police and local residents said on Wednesday, causing no casualties but stoking tensions that have flared over a contested Jerusalem shrine. Youths entered Mghayr village in the occupied West Bank and set a fire which consumed the ground floor of the mosque…
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Fast Forward Alan Gross ‘Closer to Release,’ Lawmakers Say
Alan Gross, the Jewish government contractor jailed in Cuba for crimes against the state may be closer to returning home, in part because he has threatened to end his life if he is not released, a U.S. senator said on Tuesday. The detention of Gross since December 2009 has increased tensions in already troubled U.S.-Cuban…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Feud Reopens as Hamas and Fatah Bicker
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday accused his Islamist Hamas rivals of carrying out a series of bombings against officials loyal to him in Gaza last week, in a move sure to harm already floundering unity efforts. A series of small explosions targeted the homes and vehicles of officials from Abbas’s Fatah movement on Friday,…
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Fast Forward Do-Good Doctor Busted on Porn and Sex Abuse Charges
A San Diego doctor who volunteered at a clinic for poor and uninsured people pleaded not guilty on Monday to felony charges linked to allegations he took more than 1,300 sexually explicit photographs of female patients, and molested some of them. Jeffrey Abrams, 67, was arraigned on 24 felony charges linked to the misconduct allegations…
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Fast Forward 3 Slain ‘Mississippi Burning’ Civil Rights Activists Will Get Medal of Freedom
Three civil rights workers slain in Mississippi in 1964 will be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, joining actress Meryl Streep and singer Stevie Wonder among the 19 recipients of America’s highest civilian honor this year, the White House said on Monday. The posthumous honorees include James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were…
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Fast Forward Joan Rivers Clinic Cited for Failings
The New York outpatient clinic where the late Joan Rivers suffered cardiac arrest did not follow all the standard protocols during the throat procedures it conducted on the comedian, according to a government agency report released on Monday. Rivers died on Sept. 4 at the age of 81 in a New York hospital a week…
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