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Fast Forward Donald Sterling Claims ‘Baited’ Into Racist Rant
Embattled Los Angeles Clippers’ owner Donald Sterling said he was set up to make racist comments in a taped recording that led the National Basketball Association to ban him for life from the sport, CNN reported on Monday. “Yes, I was baited,” Sterling, 80, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 in an interview to be broadcast…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Compares Iran Nukes to North Korea
Iran’s nuclear programme is a clear and present danger and the country cannot be allowed to get the capability to make nuclear arms, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday. Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Monday described as “stupid and idiotic” Western expectations for his country to curb its missile development, taking…
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Fast Forward Donald Sterling Says Sorry — Insists Not Racist in First Interview
Los Angeles Clippers Owner Donald Sterling, who was banned for life from the NBA over racist comments, has apologized and asked for forgiveness in his first public statement since the controversy began last month, CNN said on Sunday. In an interview to be broadcast on Monday, Sterling told CNN he made a terrible mistake but…
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Fast Forward Israel Offers To Help Nigeria Find Kidnapped Girls
Israel offered Nigeria help on Sunday in locating 200 schoolgirls abducted last month by Islamist rebel group Boko Haram in an attack that has drawn global condemnation and prompted some Western powers to provide assistance. “Israel expresses deep shock at the crime against the girls,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office quoted him as telling Nigerian…
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Fast Forward Israel Fires Back in Talks Collapse Blame Game
Israel fired back on Friday at a senior U.S. official, who blamed Jewish settlement construction in part for the breakdown of peacemaking with the Palestinians, saying he himself had done nothing to help the negotiations. The blunt riposte signalled continued, deep tensions between Israel and Washington over the U.S.-led talks, which collapsed last month amid…
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Fast Forward Rahm Emanuel Jumps on Hillary 2016 Bandwagon
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a former White House aide to Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, on Friday joined the Ready For Hillary group that is urging former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to run for president in 2016. Emanuel, who also served in the U.S. House of Representatives, will headline two fundraisers for…
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Fast Forward Israel Military Wants Longer-Term Aid Deal With U.S.
Budget-strapped Israel is pressing the United States to conclude a deal extending defence aid beyond 2017, when Washington’s current $3 billion annual payouts to its Middle East ally expire, officials said on Friday. They said a swift agreement on future U.S. grants would help Israel’s military draft a five-year austerity plan accommodating Prime Minister Benjamin…
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Fast Forward Martin Indyk Seeks To Spread Blame for Peace Talks Collapse
Israeli and Palestinian leaders were unwilling to make the “gut-wrenching” compromises needed for peace, a top U.S. official said on Thursday, faulting both sides for the collapse of talks last month. Offering his first public account of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s failed, nine-month effort to strike a peace deal by April 29, U.S….
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