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Fast Forward 75% of New York Airbnb Listings Are Illegal, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman Says
Nearly three-quarters of the New York City listings of private homes for rent on Airbnb, a popular online marketplace, violate state zoning and sublet laws, the state’s attorney general said on Thursday. Commercial users are also illegally using the website to run multi-million-dollar, large-scale rental operations, according to a report by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman….
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Fast Forward Mark Zuckerberg Donates $25M to Ebola FIght
Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, would donate $25 million to the Centers for Disease Control Foundation to fight Ebola. “We need to get Ebola under control in the near term so that it doesn’t spread further and become a long-term global health crisis that we…
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Fast Forward U.N.’s Ban Ki-Moon Calls Gaza Destruction ‘Beyond Description’
Israel opened the border to the first truckloads of building materials for post-war reconstruction in Gaza on Tuesday and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called the destruction in the Palestinian enclave “beyond description.” Gaza was blockaded by Israel and Egypt for years before the most recent conflict, which ended in August after two months, because,…
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Fast Forward France Says Will Recognize State of Palestine If Talks Fail
France’s foreign minister said on Tuesday that Paris should recognize a Palestinian state only if doing so would help achieve peace, not as a symbolic gesture. However, if negotiations between the Palestinians and Israel fail, Paris “would not shirk its responsibilities” but would recognize the Palestinian state, the minister, Laurent Fabius, said in answer to…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Clash With Troops on Temple Mount
Israeli police clashed with Palestinian protesters and shut down access to Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque compound on Monday in a deepening dispute over access to the area, the third holiest shrine in Islam which is also revered by Jews. The site in Jerusalem’s walled Old City has seen a marked increase in unrest in recent days…
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Fast Forward Karen Lewis Won’t Challenge Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel
Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis, who had surgery last week for a serious illness, will not run against Mayor Rahm Emanuel in city elections next year, her exploratory committee said on Monday. “Karen Lewis has decided to not pursue a mayoral bid,” the committee said in a statement. “Yet she charges us to continue…
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Fast Forward British Parliament Overwhelmingly Votes To Recognize ‘Palestine’
British lawmakers voted overwhelmingly on Monday to recognize Palestine as a state, a move that will not alter government policy, but carries symbolic value as Palestinians pursue international recognition. Britain does not classify Palestine as a state, but says it could do so at any time if it believed it would help promote peace between…
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Fast Forward Britain’s David Cameron Will Abstain in Parliament Vote on Recognizing ‘Palestine’
British foreign policy towards Palestine will not change, even if lawmakers on Monday vote in favor of a motion stating that the government should recognize it as a state, Prime Minister David Cameron’s official spokesman told reporters. Britain does not class Palestine as a state, but says it could do so at any time if…
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