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Fast Forward Sponsors Dump Los Angeles Clippers as Donald Sterling Racism Snafu Deepens
The National Basketball Association faced mounting pressure on Monday to impose a harsh punishment on Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for his alleged racist comments as several of the team’s sponsors pulled their backing. Sterling is being investigated by the NBA over comments he allegedly made that have since sparked widespread outrage in the…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama Slams Basketball Owner Donald Sterling for ‘Offensive Racist’ Remarks
President Barack Obama said on Sunday that comments reported to have been made by the owner of the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers basketball team were “incredibly offensive racist statements.” The NBA is investigating an audio recording posted online of Clippers owner Donald Sterling allegedly telling his girlfriend not to post photographs of herself with black…
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Fast Forward Silvio Berlusconi, on Way to Prison, Claims Germans Deny Holocaust
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, about to begin a sentence for tax fraud, provoked fresh outrage from his political opponents on Saturday by suggesting that Germany did not acknowledge the existence of World War Two concentration camps. Berlusconi provoked the latest in a long line of controversies when he took another swipe at his…
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Fast Forward Last Letter From Titanic Sells for $200K
A letter from a passenger on the Titanic, written just hours before the ship hit an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage, sold at auction on Saturday for 119,000 pounds ($200,000). It was written by British survivors Esther Hart and her seven-year-old daughter Eva who had been travelling in Second Class on their way…
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Fast Forward Mahmoud Abbas Says Open To Restarting Peace Talks
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas signalled on Saturday that he remains committed to troubled U.S.-backed peace talks, saying that any future unity government that includes the militant group Hamas would recognise Israel. Abbas’s comments appeared aimed at soothing Western concerns about the unity deal he reached on Wednesday with Hamas, an Islamist faction sworn to Israel’s…
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Fast Forward John Kerry Says Mideast Peace Talks in ‘Holding Pattern’
The United States said on Friday the Israeli-Palestinian peace process had come to a standstill, all but acknowledging U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will fail to meet his goal of a peace deal by April 29. Israel on Thursday suspended the talks in response to a reconciliation pact between Fatah, the Palestinian faction that…
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Fast Forward Israelis and Palestinians Yawn at Peace Debacle
An Israeli decision to suspend snarled negotiations with the Palestinians has signalled the latest and perhaps the final blow to two decades of a mostly fruitless peace process. But the day after the U.S.-led talks were frozen amid mutual recrimination, no angry crowds gathered in the de-facto Palestinian capital Ramallah to urge a rethink and…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama Says Peace Talks May Need ‘Pause’
President Barack Obama said on Friday there might be a need for a “pause” in U.S.-brokered peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, suggesting the faltering Middle East peace effort may be going nowhere. Israel on Thursday suspended participation in peace talks with the Palestinians in response to President Mahmoud Abbas’s unexpected unity pact with…
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