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Fast Forward John Kerry Set To Jumpstart Mideast Peace Talks
Secretary of State John Kerry will return to Israel and the Palestinian territories for peace talks next week, a senior U.S. government official said on Saturday, days after Israel is due to free another group of Palestinian prisoners. The U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Kerry will visit Jerusalem and Ramallah late next…
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Fast Forward ‘Duck Dynasty’ Scion Bounces Back From Anti-Gay Furor
Cable network A&E said on Friday it was bringing back family patriarch Phil Robertson to the hit reality show “Duck Dynasty” after fans protested his suspension over anti-gay remarks and big-name corporate sponsors stuck by the series. Robertson’s remarks to GQ magazine and his subsequent suspension by A&E sparked a nationwide debate over tolerance and…
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Fast Forward Israel Will Release Palestinian Prisoners on Monday
Israel has informed the United States of plans to release the next group of Palestinian prisoners on Dec. 30 under a U.S.-brokered peace plan, the State Department said on Friday. “Although we had expected the release to occur on December 29, we have been informed that technical issues made it necessary to do the release…
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Fast Forward France May Ban Comic Dieudonne M’bala M’bala Over Anti-Semitic Jibes
France is considering banning performances by a black comedian whose shows have repeatedly insulted the memory of Holocaust victims and could threaten public order, Interior Minister Manuel Valls said on Friday. He said his ministry is studying legal ways to ban shows by Dieudonne M’bala M’bala, a comedian repeatedly fined for hate speech who ran…
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Fast Forward Israel Plans 1,400 New Settlement Homes — Palestinians Angry
Israel plans to build 1,400 homes in its settlements in the occupied West Bank and will announce the projects next week after releasing a group of Palestinian prisoners, an Israeli official said on Friday. The Palestinians have said any further expansion of Israeli settlements on land they seek for a state could derail U.S.-brokered peace…
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Fast Forward Jewish Son’s Eternal Tattoo Tribute to Mother
When Floris Hirschfeld’s mother died two years ago, he had her portrait tattooed on his back to honour her memory. One day he hopes the image, skin and all, will adorn the wall of an art collector’s home. It might sound like a macabre Roald Dahl story, but could soon be reality with the help…
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Fast Forward Warren Weinstein Pleads With Barack Obama: ‘I’ve Been Abandoned’
A U.S. development worker kidnapped in Pakistan by al Qaeda two years ago appealed to President Barack Obama to intervene and help negotiate his release, in a video released on Thursday. In a 13-minute clip issued by al Qaeda’s media wing and posted on several news websites, Warren Weinstein, 72, looked gaunt and tired. “I…
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Fast Forward Yasser Arafat Died of Natural Causes, Not Radiation Poisoning, Russia Says
Russia said on Thursday that former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died of natural causes, not radiation poisoning, but the Palestinian ambassador to Moscow said an investigation would continue, Russian news agencies reported. Samples were taken from Arafat’s body last year by Swiss, French and Russian forensics experts after an al Jazeera documentary said his clothes…
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