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Fast Forward Sandberg: Facebook Disables Targeting Ads By Excluding Racial Groups
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook said on Wednesday it was temporarily disabling the ability of advertisers on its social network to exclude racial groups from the intended audience of ads while it studies how the feature could be used to discriminate. Facebook’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, told African-American lawmakers in a letter that the…
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Fast Forward Florida Man Gets 25 Years For Yom Kippur Synagogue Bomb Plot
A Florida man was sentenced on Tuesday to 25 years in prison for plotting to blow up a synagogue in the state on Yom Kippur last year. James Medina, 41, will first be treated at a U.S. prison medical facility for a brain cyst and mental illness before being moved into the general prison population,…
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Fast Forward Ivanka Preaches Gender Equality To Full House In India
HYDERABAD, India (Reuters) – President Trump’s daughter Ivanka kicked off a global business summit in southern India on Tuesday calling for better opportunities for women entrepreneurs battling heavy odds around the world. Ivanka, also an informal adviser to her father, received a warm welcome in India’s high-tech hub of Hyderabad with all the trappings of…
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Fast Forward Lebanon Army On High Alert Near Israel Border
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s army chief told his soldiers on Tuesday to be extra vigilant to prevent unrest during political turmoil after the prime minister quit, and accused Israel of “aggressive” intentions across the southern frontier. Troops should be ready to “thwart any attempt to exploit the current circumstances for stirring strife…and chaos,” the army’s…
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Fast Forward Soros Says Hungarian Government Lying In Attacks Against Him
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – U.S. financier George Soros on Monday denounced a Hungarian government campaign against him as “distortions and lies” designed to create a false external enemy. Soros, 86, is a Hungarian-born Jew whose longtime support for liberal and open-border values in eastern Europe have put him at odds with right-wing nationalists, in particular the…
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Fast Forward Israeli Minister Reveals Secret Saudi Talks
JERUSALEM/RIYADH (Reuters) – An Israeli cabinet minister said on Sunday that Israel has had covert contacts with Saudi Arabia amid common concerns over Iran, a first disclosure by a senior official from either country of long-rumored secret dealings. In an interview on Army Radio, Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz did not characterize the contacts or give…
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Fast Forward Police Interview Netanyahu For 6th Time In Corruption Probe
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli police officers on Sunday questioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the sixth time in a corruption probe, Israeli media reported. Police investigators arrived by car in late afternoon to Netanyahu’s official residence in Jerusalem where past interrogations have taken place, and disappeared behind security gates. Police and Netanyahu’s office declined to…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Slam U.S. Plan To Close PLO Office In Peace Negotiation Ploy
RAMALLAH/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Palestinian officials expressed surprise on Saturday at a U.S. decision to close the Palestine Liberation Organization office in Washington unless the group enters peace negotiations with Israel, and said they would not surrender to blackmail. A U.S. State Department official said that under legislation passed by Congress, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson…
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