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Fast Forward Israel Bars 50 Sick Patients Over ‘Palestine’ Letterhead
Israel has denied entry permits to some 50 Palestinian medical patients from the Gaza Strip because the words “State of Palestine” appears on the letterhead of their application, officials said on Wednesday. Israel does not recognise a Palestinian state, whose creation it says should stem from peace negotiations. It voted against a U.N. General Assembly…
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Fast Forward New Haul of Looted Paintings Found in German Art Hoarder’s Austria Home
An elderly German recluse whose spectacular trove of artworks hidden in his Munich flat probably include Nazi loot kept a further 60 paintings in his home in Salzburg, Austrian media reported on Tuesday. The Salzburg haul includes works by artists such as Monet, Renoir and Picasso, the Austria Press Agency (APA) said quoting a spokesman…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Say Peace Talks Doomed by ‘Reservations’ — Predicts ‘Stuck’ Process
A top Palestinian official said on Tuesday a framework agreement being crafted by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to buttress troubled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks may be doomed to fail. Nabil Abu Rdeineh, spokesman to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said the deal due to be submitted to the two sides in the coming weeks would…
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Fast Forward Janet Yellen Strikes Cautious Note in First Congress Testimony as Fed Chief
New Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said on Tuesday the labor market recovery is “far from complete” despite a drop in unemployment, yet she said the U.S. central bank expects to continue trimming policy stimulus in measured steps due to broader improvements in the economy. In her first public comments as Fed chief, Yellen, giving…
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Fast Forward Mark Zuckerberg Gives $1B To Top Philanthropy List
Facebook Inc. founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and his wife topped a list of the biggest U.S. philanthropic donors in 2013, giving away nearly $1 billion, the Chronicle of Philanthropy said on Monday. The top 50 U.S. donors gave $7.7 billion last year, up 4 percent from the previous year, helped by a surge…
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Fast Forward Mystery of Lost 2,000-Year-Old Bronze Apollo Statue in Gaza
Lost for centuries, a rare bronze statue of the Greek god Apollo has mysteriously resurfaced in the Gaza Strip, only to be seized by police and vanish almost immediately from view. Word of the remarkable find has caught the imagination of the world of archaeology, but the police cannot say when the life-sized bronze might…
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Fast Forward Hungary’s Jews Vote To Boycott Holocaust Memorials
Hungary’s main Jewish group voted on Sunday to boycott official Holocaust commemorations this year unless they more clearly show the role of local citizens in the Nazi deportation and killing of Hungarian Jews. The Hungarian Jewish Congregations’ Association (Mazsihisz) decided to stay away from events marking the 70th anniversary of June 1944, when 437,000 Jews…
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Fast Forward Germany Expands Pensions for Jews Forced To Work in Nazi Ghettos
Germany’s Labour Ministry is to bring in new legislation extending the pension rights of thousands of Jews forced to work in Nazi-era ghettos, Spiegel magazine reported on Sunday. Spiegel said the ministry had presented the proposal to an Israeli delegation visiting Berlin last week, and it would be worth an average of 15,000 euros ($20,400)…
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