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Fast Forward U.S. Slams Israeli Appropriation of West Bank Land
The United States on Tuesday took the unusual step of publicly criticizing Israel for plans to appropriate land in the occupied West Bank and calling for it to reverse the decision. Some 400 hectares (988 acres) in the Etzion Jewish settlement bloc near Bethlehem were declared “state land, on the instructions of the political echelon”…
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Fast Forward ISIS Has Reportedly Beheaded Steven Sotloff
(Reuters) – The Islamic State militant group released a video purporting to show the beheading of U.S. hostage Steven Sotloff, the SITE monitoring service reported on Tuesday. A masked figure in the video also issued a threat against a British hostage, a man the group named as David Haines, and warned governments to back off…
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Fast Forward Nazi ‘Euthanasia’ Victims Commemorated With New Berlin Memorial
Some 300,000 people with physical or mental disabilities who were killed under Nazi Germany’s “euthanasia” program because their lives were deemed unworthy were commemorated on Tuesday with the opening of a memorial in Berlin. Relatives of the victims joined Mayor Klaus Wowereit and members of the public to lay wreaths and white roses in front…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Negotiator To Present Kerry With Plans for Statehood
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat will present plans to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday calling for a time table on ending Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, Palestinian officials said. Erekat and intelligence chief Majid Faraj will hold a series of meetings with senior officials in Washington in which…
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Fast Forward Israel Appropriates West Bank Land for Possible Settlement Use
Israel announced on Sunday a land appropriation in the occupied West Bank that an anti-settlement group termed the biggest in 30 years and a Palestinian official said would cause only more friction after the Gaza war. Some 400 hectares (988 acres) in the Etzion settlement bloc near Bethlehem were declared “state land, on the instructions…
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Fast Forward Israel Says It Shot Down Drone on Golan Heights
Israel’s military said it shot down a drone that flew from Syria into Israeli-controlled airspace over the Golan Heights on Sunday. It was not immediately clear who dispatched the unmanned aircraft or the nature of its mission, in an area where fighting from Syria’s civil war has occasionally spilled over into Israeli-held territory. In a…
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Fast Forward Joan Rivers ‘Touched’ by Tributes Amid Scare
Comedian Joan Rivers was in serious condition on Friday at a New York hospital a day after she was admitted suffering cardiac arrest when her breathing stopped during a vocal cord procedure, her family and hospital officials said. “Her condition remains serious, but she is receiving the best treatment and care possible,” her daughter, Melissa,…
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Fast Forward Drug Charges Dropped in Philip Seymour Hoffman Case
The Manhattan district attorney has dropped drug-selling charges against a jazz musician and friend of late film star Philip Seymour Hoffman, who died of an accidental drug overdose in February, the New York Times newspaper reported. Montreal-born Robert Aaron Vineberg, 58, was arrested after police traced what they believed to have been the source of…
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