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Fast Forward Israel Plans New Settlement Push Despite Threat to Peace Talks
Israel plans to announce a push for more construction in Jewish settlements when it frees two dozen Palestinian prisoners next week, an Israeli official said on Wednesday, in a move that could jeopardise U.S.-brokered peace talks. Palestinians have said any further settlement expansion could scuttle the negotiations, which resumed in July after intensive shuttle diplomacy…
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Fast Forward Eliot Spitzer and Wife Say Marriage Is Over
Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer and his wife said on Tuesday they were ending their marriage, local media reported, more than five years after she stood by his side as the embattled Democrat resigned over a prostitution scandal. “We regret that our marital relationship has come to an end, and we have agreed not…
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Fast Forward Pope Francis, Celebrating First Christmas, Asks for Peacemaking Worldwide
Pope Francis, celebrating his first Christmas as Roman Catholic leader, on Wednesday called for dialogue to end the conflict in South Sudan and all wars, saying everyone should strive to be personal peacemakers. Speaking to tens of thousands of people from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, the same spot where he emerged to…
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Fast Forward Gaza Toddler and Israeli Killed in Border Flareup
A Gaza sniper shot dead an Israeli civilian over the border on Tuesday and Israel hit back with air strikes on two Hamas training camps which hospital officials said killed a Palestinian girl near one of the targets. The Israeli man, who the military said was working on Israel’s security fence, was the first Israeli…
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Fast Forward Gaza Sniper Kills Israel Border Worker
A Gaza sniper killed an Israeli civilian over the border on Tuesday, Israeli military and medical officials said, in a shooting that drew a threat of possible military action from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The man was the first Israeli killed on the Gaza frontier in more than a year. His death comes amid heightened…
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Fast Forward Israel Frees Palestinian Prisoner Whose Hunger Strike Sparked Protests
Israel freed a Palestinian prisoner from jail on Monday, completing a deal agreed earlier this year in exchange for him halting a lengthy hunger strike that almost killed him. Samer al-Issawi stopped his eight-month, on-off fast last April. His confinement had stoked weeks of protests in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Israel convicted Issawi of shooting…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Blasts U.S. Spying on Israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, commenting on allegations the United States had spied on Israel’s leaders, said on Monday such activity was unacceptable and had no place in the allies’ close relationship. Documents leaked on Friday by former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden showed the NSA and its British counterpart GCHQ had in 2009…
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Fast Forward Thousands in Sweden Rally Against Neo-Nazis
Thousands of Swedes took to the streets of Stockholm on Sunday in a protest against racism following a neo-Nazi attack on a similar but much smaller rally last weekend, police said. The protest followed events last weekend when around 30 neo-Nazis attacked another anti-racism rally in the same suburb, Karrtorp, throwing bottles and firecrackers at…
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